#1091: internet, energy, lidar, airports, migrations, trees
, last check: Thu, 27 Aug 2026. Post history
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internet
Article about how important is the geographical aspect to understand how the Internet works
https://fronterasblog.com/2019/04/22/el-mapa-de-internet/amp/ -
energy
Article about Texas energy production, and how it's leading solar, wind, and oil sectors, and understanding it using deep learning on satellite imagery
https://medium.com/descarteslabs-team/texas-reigns-supreme-in-u-s-energy-production-and-mccamey-shows-us-how-72fac43b599e -
lidar
Working together, UK Ordnance Survey and Environment Agency have produced a 1 meter LIDAR Open Dataset along with a very informative website
https://environment.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=c6cef6cc642a48838d38e722ea8ccfee -
airports
Contracartographies takes an airport as the iconic object of modern marketing and globalization, dissecting it to analyze it visually
https://www.ct-escoladacidade.org/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi -
migrations
Millionaires migration fluxes around the world: massively moving from China and Russia to Australia
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-migration-of-millionaires/ -
trees
Trees species distribution model for the USA New York state (PDF)
https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/56946 | archive.org
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