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🌐 Nightlights aren’t capturing the world’s darkest crises
PLUS: predicting earthquake responses using LLMs, better quality road extraction using AI, and more.
🌐 Researchers tested 10 foundation models on SDG tracking. They flopped.
PLUS: Microsoft's climate model, mapping pollution from Flickr, and more.
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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.

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.
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Yohan
🌐 How reliable are Landsat and Sentinel vegetation estimates?
PLUS: the surprising limits of flood infrastructure, the hidden costs of droughts, and more.
🌐 Your area estimates might be off
PLUS: Monitoring road damage from mobile phones, increasing the resolution of SAR images, and more.
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🌐 The shady business of academic citations
PLUS: planning flood evacuations using AR, generating terrain models using text, and more.

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.
🌐 Some surprising insights about air pollution (involving blockchain)
PLUS: mapping walkability in Europe, the unpredictability of rivers, and more.
🌐 Turns out DHS surveys aren’t always accurate
PLUS: new job vacancy in my team, generating DEMs from optical images, and more.
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Yohan
🌐 We're losing rivers
PLUS: making radar images colourful, foundation models for estimating carbon stocks, and more.
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Yohan

April 2025

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