[Ráfaga] #2243: water, budapest, algae, drought, tracking, cannon

[Rafagas team]

#2243: water, budapest, algae, drought, tracking, cannon

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 by Raf

* Aqueduct, created by the Water Risk Atlas, is a drought map that
assesses water risks using open data to advance best practices in
water resource management.

https://www.wri.org/applications/aqueduct/water-risk-atlas/

* One-third of Budapest's 8,598 streets and squares have been renamed
at least once in its history. The renaming usually followed changes in
political regime and resulted in collective memory loss

https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/cp_data_news/poets-politicians-and-saints-budapests-changing-street-names/

* CyFi is an Open Source tool that uses machine learning and satellite
imagery to identify areas in lakes and reservoirs that may contain
harmful algal blooms (cyanobacteria)

https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/blog/cyanobacteria-finder

* Global warming, rather than El Niño, is the cause of record drought
in the Amazon, which is affecting both food supply and energy
production due to lack of water

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/preliminary-analysis-says-global-warming-more-blame-el-nino-amazons

* The content users provide on Google Maps can be used indirectly to
follow people's movements and learn their timetables and habits

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/01/17/google-maps-tracking-business-locations/

* Google Maps is used to locate an agricultural air cannon that
distorts neighbors' sound in England, with measurements taken from
three locations and just a few lines of code

https://www.twobraids.com/2024/01/air-cannon.html

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Translated by Isaac, Jaume, Jorge, and Wladimir

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