Efforts to map the Earth's trees are growing - and could change our understanding of the planet's healthWhen a team of international scientists set out to count every tree in a large swathe of west Africa using AI, satellite images and one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, their expectations were modest. Previously, the area had registered as having little or no tree cover.The biggest surprise, says Martin Brandt, assistant professor of geography at the University of Copenhagen, is that the part of the Sahara that the study covered, roughly 10%, "where no one would expect to find many trees", actually had "quite a few hundred million". Continue reading...
One, two, tree: how AI helped find millions of trees in the Sahara
15. ledna 2021 12:30
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/15/how-ai-helped-find-millions-of-trees-in-the-sahara-aoe
Zdroj: The Guardian