[Ráfaga] #1866: trees, laser, fires

[Jorge Sanz]

#1866: trees, laser, fires

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 by Raf

* 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://ai.googleblog.com/2022/06/mapping-urban-trees-across-north.html?m=1

* 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

* 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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