Thursday, March 17, 2022

These maps from satellite data show how much Earth has changed in only five years

 American astronaut will return to Earth on Russian spacecraft despite Ukraine invasion, NASA says.


A 68-metre megayacht purportedly owned by a Russian oligarch is stranded in a Norwegian harbour because locals refuse to allow it to be refuelled.
The MY Ragnar is reportedly owned by former KGB agent Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, who is close with Vladimir Putin.
Although Mr Strzhalkovsky is not on any sanctions list, Norwegian fuel suppliers are refusing to refuel it.


These maps from satellite data show how much Earth has changed in only five years

Fast Company: “In a new global map based on the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite data from 2017-2021, the mapping company Esri has created a detailed rendering of the current state of the planet that anyone can explore. In the past, land use mapping has been slow, because it’s done pixel-by-pixel and requires a long process of review…Esri and Impact Observatory used artificial intelligence and machine learning to quickly crunch through the satellite data, which has 26 pictures of every point on the planet throughout the year. (Microsoft donated the use of its servers to run the program.) Data that might have taken months or a year to process in the past can now be processed in around a week…”