| ▲ | pingou a day ago | |||||||
Wasn't it extremely expensive to analyse so many images? Edit: I asked gemini and it's only 834 1200x1200 images for 1,200 km2 at standard lidar resolution. Can that be used to detect illegal mining operations in South America? | ||||||||
| ▲ | piltdownman a day ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
It can, but then it runs into the Google Maps issue - everything altruistic at the expense of some bad actor becomes a Security, Military or Legal concern - and the apathy issue. This is partly why George Clooney abandoned his Project Sentinel - documenting atrocities from space means nothing if you cannot action on the people and financial networks enabling them. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | toephu2 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
It's not clear whether the author used personal tokens or Google's token allowance (given to each worker) to perform this analysis. | ||||||||