#1866: trees, laser, fires
, last check: Mon, 24 Aug 2026. Post history
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trees
Auto Arborist Dataset is a set of urban tree classification data with about 2.6 million trees and more than 320 genera obtained by mixing public green censuses with RGB and Street View images for various US cities.
https://research.google/blog/mapping-urban-trees-across-north-america-with-the-auto-arborist-dataset/?m=1 -
laser
Russia is equipping itself with a new laser system called Kalina that will aim at the optical systems of foreign satellites flying over Russian territory to dazzle them and thus prevent them from capturing images.
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4416/1 -
fires
NASA's FIRMS system distributes data on fires/thermal anomalies near-real-time obtained from satellite observations
https://impactunofficial.medium.com/getting-a-firms-grip-on-forest-fires-d9c2e509542e
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