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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Beginning in the mid-1960s, the USDA had worked with NASA and labs at Purdue University and the University of Michigan to develop new ways to identify crops from high-altitude aircraft and satellites. The Soviet grain deal gave Landsat a new use: predicting crop yields worldwide The U.S.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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How We Got Started With Drones for Demining I became interested in land-mine detection while studying geological science as an undergraduate at Binghamton University , New York. Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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Marine Corps used the autonomous K-Max helicopters for resupply missions in Afghanistan. While attending the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, he interned at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., She ended up getting accepted to the University of Waterloo and became part of the UW tutor team I was leading.”

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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The story of the Baltimore Gun Club propelling themselves to the moon is about the extraordinary masculine power of the veteran, who doesn’t simply “overcome” his disability; he derives power and ambition from it. soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. But there are often better ways.”.

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Using AI to Clear Land Mines in Ukraine

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Steinberg: So it started in 2016 with my partner, Jasper Baur, doing a research project at Binghamton University in the remote sensing and geophysics lab. It was previously found in Afghanistan. It still is found in Afghanistan, but it’s found in much higher quantities right now in Ukraine. Ukraine has a lot of surface ordnance.

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How the U.S. Army Is Turning Robots Into Team Players

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Tom Howard , who directs the University of Rochester's Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and has developed natural-language interaction algorithms for RoMan and other ground robots. The question when programming an intelligent robot is, at what practical size do those deep-learning building blocks exist?"

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

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Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). The blistering late-afternoon wind ripped across Camp Taji , a sprawling U.S. military base just north of Baghdad.

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