[Ráfaga] Nº1528: trees, ethics, 3d

[Jorge Sanz]

Nº1528: trees, ethics, 3d

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 by Raf

* Treetop is an application for R made with Shiny to extract forest
information from Lidar data, from canopy height models to forest
uniformity measures and spatial distribution of individual trees, in
2D and 3D

https://github.com/carlos-alberto-silva/weblidar-treetop

* Why we need to think about ethics when using satellite data for
development, specially in countries that depend on images collected by
foreign commercial companies

https://www.devex.com/news/why-we-need-to-think-about-ethics-when-using-satellite-data-for-development-99148

* Instant online generation of 3D landscapes from API calls to open
data in Switzerland, both topographic and satellite and DEM, published
by Swisstopo, open source via @rkaravia

https://labs.karavia.ch/mesh-tiler-ch/#7.45136/46.92794

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