[Ráfaga] Nº1470: trees, fantasy, paralleluniverses

[Jorge Sanz]

Nº1470: trees, fantasy, paralleluniverses

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 by Raf

* An international team of scientists has used artificial intelligence
and commercial satellites to identify an unexpected number of trees
spread across arid and semi-arid areas, via @xurxosanz

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147612/counting-trees-in-africas-drylands

* Monsoon is an open source fantastic map generator that uses numpy
with the code in sight and explained on a notebook, via @vehrka

https://fangzhangmnm.itch.io/moonsoon

* If the results of the main elections, wars and other events had been
different we would have maps that represent alternative worlds to
ours, such as those in this collection

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201104-the-intriguing-maps-that-reveal-alternate-histories

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