GeoAI tutorial: building footprint extraction with U-Net, SAM, Mask R-CNN

Step-by-step guide covers configuring a geospatial deep learning environment, downloading NAIP raster imagery and vector labels, and inspecting their spatial properties before building the footprint extraction pipeline.
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