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November 2024

🌐 Can gangs actually reduce crime?
PLUS: massive differences in land use datasets, CO2 emissions from private jets, and more.
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🌐 How JP Morgan is using nightlights data
PLUS: How Google is incorporating search trends data into geospatial modelling, the cost of electrifying households in Africa, and more
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🌐 Brand new granular socio-economic datasets for the world
PLUS: detecting maritime crop circles and GPS spoofing, improving granular population mapping, and more.
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🌐 Estimating refugee populations from space
PLUS: Improving air quality predictions, ship detection methods, and new agricultural datasets.
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October 2024

🌐 Humans vs machines: poverty mapping edition
PLUS: measuring the impact of cool roofs on heat-related deaths, predicting forest fires, estimating building damages in conflict zones, and more.
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Inequalities in flood adaptation measures
PLUS: assessing the accuracy of rainfall estimates in real-time, measuring field boundaries under clouds, global poverty updates and more.
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Estimating historical GDP from geospatial data on famous figures
PLUS: concerning issues with EO data accuracy, foundation models for crop mapping, Google Flood data, and more.
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How extreme temperatures impact EV sales
PLUS: quantifying the vertical growth of cities, detecting rare earth minerals from space, and more.
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Identifying sick crops from hyperspectral images
PLUS: Tracking looting in archaeological sites, mapping commuter patterns, using AI to identify village borders and more.
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September 2024

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