[Ráfaga] #1849: cmix, cattle, geoprocessing, orientation, wildfire

[Jorge Sanz]

#1849: cmix, cattle, geoprocessing, orientation, wildfire

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 by Raf

* Results of the first exercise of quantitative intercomparison of
cloud masks (CMIX) carried out within the calibration and validation
working group (WGCV) of the Committee for Earth Observation Satellites
(CEOS)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425722001043#f0005

* Illegal livestock trafficking, across the borders of Nicaragua,
Honduras and Guatemala, puts unsecured animals into the food supply
chain in Mexico and even the United States.

https://insightcrime.org/investigations/cash-cows-cattle-trafficking-from-central-america-mexico/

* Geo Sentences BETA is a geoprocessing tool (author @hnshck has
others) to manage GeoJSON files quickly and easily, with the help of
Mapshaper, which does operations with geometries

https://hanshack.com/geotools/geosentences/

* Lehua Kamalu has revived the patriarchal tradition of Polynesian
orientation in sailing for a 3,000-mile voyage across the Pacific
Ocean without maps or technology

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/woman-navigated-3000-mile-pacific-voyage-without-maps-technology

* A new online tool scores the risk of forest fires and determines the
danger to single-family homes in 48 U.S. states, where they will go
from 7 million to 30 million high-risk homes in the next 30 years

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-wildfire-risk-maps-home-search-data/

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