🌐 Why we’re miscalculating urban poverty

PLUS: Improving flood maps with heavy-duty AI, predicting wildfires and more

Feb 11

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🌐 Mapping the reality of the 15-minute city

PLUS: New sources of night lights images, better health masks rising climate risks and more.

Feb 4

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January 2026

🌐 The massive $192 billion trade risk hiding in our shipping lanes

PLUS: surprises in forecasting extreme rainfall, simple models can outperform more complex ones, and more.

Jan 21

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🌐 Predicting commuter patterns from space

PLUS: New approaches to assessing building damage, estimating road crash risk and more.

Jan 14

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December 2025

🌐 Turning messy street view imagery into structured data

PLUS: Mapping vulnerability at 10x higher resolution, using phones to assess seismic risk, and more.

Dec 31, 2025

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🌐 How to launch (and maintain) a Substack newsletter

Some strategies for achieving 1k subscribers

Dec 24, 2025

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🌐 Your segmentation model's confidence might be lying to you

PLUS: Google's new Earth AI framework, plus IBM's green space simulations

Dec 17, 2025

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🌐 Turns out Google’s satellite data needs a text upgrade

PLUS: A new framework for mapping healthcare demand, the impact of wildfire smoke, and more.

Dec 10, 2025

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🌐 Some new findings on wealth, place, and opportunity

PLUS: Why global farm sizes could triple by 2100, a survey of foundation models and more.

Dec 3, 2025

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November 2025

🌐 Turns out planting trees isn’t always a climate win

PLUS: Some new insights on global vegetation loss, and a smarter way to map crops

Nov 26, 2025

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🌐 Can we use LLMs to analyse satellite images?

PLUS: The emotional side of walkability, why sharing power grids is three times cheaper, and more.

Nov 19, 2025

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🌐 Turning satellite images into street view imagery

PLUS: Mapping how forest diversity shapes fire recovery, teaching AI to think geospatially and more.

Nov 11, 2025