Finding 247 solar plant candidates in Brandenburg

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Stefan Amberger on X: "Tried this across an entire German state

Three prompts and Tilebox ran zero-shot Qwen3.8-Max across Brandenburg. We found 247 PV power plant candidates.

82 km² at high confidence, official capacity implies ~87 km².

Almost the whole expected footprint in one shot! https://t.co/SFBmZQ3hPj" / X<br>Post

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Stefan Amberger

@__snamber

Tried this across an entire German state

Three prompts and Tilebox ran zero-shot Qwen3.8-Max across Brandenburg. We found 247 PV power plant candidates.

82 km² at high confidence, official capacity implies ~87 km².

Almost the whole expected footprint in one shot!

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@skalskip92

Aug 3

Qwen3.8-Max is the best object detection VLM

- satellite images<br>- infrared images<br>- documents<br>- techical drawings<br>- hand-sketched diagrams<br>- crowded scenes<br>- small objects

↓ check out some of those insane examples

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@__snamber

38m

The polygons aren’t perfect, still, going from a prompt to a statewide map without training a detector is pretty wild.

Explore the map<br>storage.googleapis.com/tilebox-hosted…

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@__snamber

38m

And here’s the Amp thread. It includes the initial prompts failed runs, fixes, deployment, and the whole iteration cycle

Qwen Sentinel-2 solar detection

From ampcode.com

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@skalskip92

33m

so you feel Qwen3.8-Max is good with satellite images?

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