#2243: water, budapest, algae, drought, tracking, cannon

Fri, 15 Mar 2024, last check: Mon, 18 Nov 2024. Post history

• Aqueduct, created by the Water Risk Atlas, is a drought map that assesses water risks using open data to advance best practices in water resource management.
  https://www.wri.org/applications/aqueduct/water-risk-atlas/
• One-third of Budapest's 8,598 streets and squares have been renamed at least once in its history. The renaming usually followed changes in political regime and resulted in collective memory loss
  https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/cp_data_news/poets-politicians-and-saints-budapests-changing-street-names/
• CyFi is an Open Source tool that uses machine learning and satellite imagery to identify areas in lakes and reservoirs that may contain harmful algal blooms (cyanobacteria)
  https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/blog/applying-machine-learning-harmful-algal-blooms
• Global warming, rather than El Niño, is the cause of record drought in the Amazon, which is affecting both food supply and energy production due to lack of water
  https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/preliminary-analysis-says-global-warming-more-blame-el-nino-amazons
• The content users provide on Google Maps can be used indirectly to follow people's movements and learn their timetables and habits
  https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/01/17/google-maps-tracking-business-locations/
• Google Maps is used to locate an agricultural air cannon that distorts neighbors' sound in England, with measurements taken from three locations and just a few lines of code
  https://www.twobraids.com/2024/01/air-cannon.html

This is the last of the 6-link digests for the time being, as we are aligned again with Raf’s postings.

Raf