#1849: cmix, cattle, geoprocessing, orientation, wildfire
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Results of the first exercise of quantitative intercomparison of cloud masks (CMIX) carried out within the calibration and validation working group (WGCV) of the Committee for Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425722001043#f0005 -
Illegal livestock trafficking, across the borders of Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, puts unsecured animals into the food supply chain in Mexico and even the United States.
https://insightcrime.org/investigations/cash-cows-cattle-trafficking-from-central-america-mexico/ -
Geo Sentences BETA is a geoprocessing tool (author @hnshck has others) to manage GeoJSON files quickly and easily, with the help of Mapshaper, which does operations with geometries
https://hanshack.com/geotools/geosentences/ -
Lehua Kamalu has revived the patriarchal tradition of Polynesian orientation in sailing for a 3,000-mile voyage across the Pacific Ocean without maps or technology
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/woman-navigated-3000-mile-pacific-voyage-without-maps-technology -
A new online tool scores the risk of forest fires and determines the danger to single-family homes in 48 U.S. states, where they will go from 7 million to 30 million high-risk homes in the next 30 years
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-wildfire-risk-maps-home-search-data/
Raf