Nudge-x

Nudge junkyard AI models to do new things.

This repository contains the code, documents and documentation required for project NUDGE-x, from the series Scrapyard AI.
It implements a Sentinel-2 satellite asset interpretation pipeline that combines statistical operations, human judgement, and generative AI models to interpret the landscape of industrial mining sites across planet Earth.

If you want to rebuild the mining area satellite image interpretation pipeline, follow the installation instructions.
If you want to recreate the UI, follow the instructions in the application deployment.

For a reproducible frontend build and static hosting under a custom domain or repository subpath, see the frontend guide.

Research and sources

Tammali, Sai Krishna; Kumar, Vinaya; Böhlen, Marc (2026). Synthetic Reflections on Resource Extraction, arXiv:2602.09299. Sections 2 and 3.2 describe the imagery and metadata sources; Section 7.2 describes the long-form document used for retrieval.

License and attribution

Marc Böhlen's original project code is licensed under the MIT License. Third-party code and material retain their own terms; this grant does not relicense datasets, satellite imagery, maps, publications, model outputs, or other contributors' work without their authorization.

See source attribution for Copernicus and Wikipedia credits and the licensing inventory for remaining asset-specific questions.