<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="gmail-post-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0.5rem;line-height:1.25;color:rgb(48,48,48);font-size:2rem;margin-top:0px">Nº1011: trees, christmas, forests, solar</h1><p class="gmail-post-date" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem;color:rgb(154,154,154)">Mon, 31 Dec 2018 by Raf</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Descartes Labs built a machine learning model to identify tree canopy using a combination of lidar, aerial imagery, and satellite imagery <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://medium.com/@tim.wallace_98924/descartes-labs-urban-trees-tree-canopy-mapping-3b6c85c5c9cc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(38,139,210);text-decoration-line:none;font-size:1em">https://medium.com/@tim.wallace_98924/descartes-labs-urban-trees-tree-canopy-mapping-3b6c85c5c9cc</a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">This is a dot density map showing where classic Christmas dinner items are grown in England, using an open dataset from <span style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://locationinsights.co.uk/b/c3" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(38,139,210);text-decoration-line:none;font-size:1em">https://locationinsights.co.uk/b/c3</a></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation, or GEDI aboard the ISS, using advanced laser technology will reveal the three-dimensional structure of forest ecosystems around the globe <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/gedi-to-measure-earths-forests" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(38,139,210);text-decoration-line:none;font-size:1em">https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/gedi-to-measure-earths-forests</a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">"We built a nearly complete solar installation database for the contiguous US utilizing a novel deep learning model applied to satellite imagery" <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(18)30570-1" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(38,139,210);text-decoration-line:none;font-size:1em">https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(18)30570-1</a></li></ul><div class="gmail-rafaga-content" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:smaller"></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem">Raf</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><br></p></div>