#1011: trees, christmas, forests, solar

Mon, 31 Dec 2018, last check: Wed, 23 Oct 2024. Post history

• Descartes Labs built a machine learning model to identify tree canopy using a combination of lidar, aerial imagery, and satellite imagery
  https://medium.com/@tim.wallace_98924/descartes-labs-urban-trees-tree-canopy-mapping-3b6c85c5c9cc
• This is a dot density map showing where classic Christmas dinner items are grown in England, using an open dataset from
  https://locationinsights.co.uk/b/c3
• The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation, or GEDI aboard the ISS, using advanced laser technology will reveal the three-dimensional structure of forest ecosystems around the globe
  https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/gedi-to-measure-earths-forests | archive.org
• "We built a nearly complete solar installation database for the contiguous US utilizing a novel deep learning model applied to satellite imagery"
  https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(18)30570-1

Raf