Methods and Systems for Identifying Topographic Features

Computer-implemented methods and systems for identifying topographic features that optimises and subsequently implements a machine learning model to automatically classify and extract topographic features from a set of target imagery are described herein. In particular, the optimised machine learning model creates heat maps from the target imagery corresponding to each class of feature, wherein the intensity of each pixel indicates whether a certain type of feature is present. The resulting heat maps are then processed to transform each pixel, specifically those identifying a topographic feature, into a geospatial vector.