🌐 A billion-scale model for understanding radar images

PLUS: A smarter way to measure water scarcity, and a new geospatial data from Meta

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🌐 Do AI models actually understand GPS coordinates?

PLUS: Tracking land use changes with foundation models, and more.

Apr 8

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🌐 A much better way to map human development

PLUS: Predicting flood damage without training models from scratch

Apr 1

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March 2026

🌐 Earthquakes have a huge carbon footprint

PLUS: Giving drones a sense of depth, the economics of good design and more.

Mar 25

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🌐 We’re running out of room for data centres

PLUS: Taming foundation models, why chatbots make terrible drivers, and more.

Mar 18

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🌐 Knowing when to doubt the data

PLUS: Sharpening images with dead leaves, landslide detection and more.

Mar 11

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February 2026

🌐 A new high-resolution lens on US migration

PLUS: New 3D maps of cities, solar forecasting and more.

Feb 18

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🌐 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

6

🌐 Predicting commuter patterns from space

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

Jan 14

5

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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