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

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The following day (which happened to coincide with the short-lived Wagner Group rebellion ), we rewrote our algorithms so that our system mapped only the locations where suspected land mines were identified—a more scalable solution for our future work. Maybe we’ll eventually have separate models for places such as Angola, Iraq, and Laos.

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Study finds unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion in East-Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2010

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This study reveals the opposite, and this could change how officials plan and adapt to urbanization in the future. By explicitly measuring the urban density (persons per kilometer) change for each agglomeration, the researchers showed that, contrary to previous findings, urban growth has outpaced land expansion.

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