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🌐 Researchers tested 10 foundation models on SDG tracking. They flopped.
PLUS: Microsoft's climate model, mapping pollution from Flickr, and more.
Jul 9
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🌐 Researchers tested 10 foundation models on SDG tracking. They flopped.
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🌐 Early stage crop-mapping just got a lot better
PLUS: zero-shot map labelling, building Youtube maps using text, and more.
Jul 3
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🌐 Early stage crop-mapping just got a lot better
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June 2025
🌐 How to map hidden rural populations using existing data
PLUS: Why satellite forecasting models keep getting it wrong, further problems with foundation models, and more.
Jun 24
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🌐 How reliable are Landsat and Sentinel vegetation estimates?
PLUS: the surprising limits of flood infrastructure, the hidden costs of droughts, and more.
Jun 18
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🌐 How reliable are Landsat and Sentinel vegetation estimates?
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🌐 Your area estimates might be off
PLUS: Monitoring road damage from mobile phones, increasing the resolution of SAR images, and more.
Jun 11
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🌐 Your area estimates might be off
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🌐 The shady business of academic citations
PLUS: planning flood evacuations using AR, generating terrain models using text, and more.
Jun 4
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🌐 The shady business of academic citations
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May 2025
🌐 What's really coming out of refineries?
PLUS: When AI models get it wrong in urban planning, detecting ships using radar, and more.
May 28
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🌐 What's really coming out of refineries?
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🌐 Some surprising insights about air pollution (involving blockchain)
PLUS: mapping walkability in Europe, the unpredictability of rivers, and more.
May 21
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🌐 Some surprising insights about air pollution (involving blockchain)
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🌐 Turns out DHS surveys aren’t always accurate
PLUS: new job vacancy in my team, generating DEMs from optical images, and more.
May 14
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🌐 Turns out DHS surveys aren’t always accurate
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🌐 We're losing rivers
PLUS: making radar images colourful, foundation models for estimating carbon stocks, and more.
May 7
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Yohan
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🌐 We're losing rivers
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April 2025
🌐 How exposed are we to toxic metal pollution?
PLUS: using geospatial data to select power plant locations, new open-source geospatial tools from Microsoft, and more.
Apr 30
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Yohan
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🌐 How exposed are we to toxic metal pollution?
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🌐 Identifying the global economic elite
PLUS: Using fiber optic cables to measure seismic activity, a new tool from IBM to finetune geospatial foundation models and more.
Apr 21
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🌐 Identifying the global economic elite
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