Manifold Analytics, Inc.

05/02/2022

"The alarming rate of global pollinator decline has made habitat restoration a conservation priority, and ComEd has been a longtime leader in doing its part by preserving native prairie habitats around its transmission lines.

Key Takeaways:

- The utility’s work to restore native prairie vegetation for pollinators and wildlife is guided by maps.

- Vegetation management crews use GIS to identify sensitive habitat and collect conservation data.

ComEd uses GIS to conduct integrated vegetation management to return land to native prairie habitats to support the monarch butterfly.

04/30/2022

"When representing data using a matrix, we can quantify the number of empty values it contains. This is referred to as its sparsity. A matrix (or dataset) that mostly contains zeros is called a sparse matrix."

And why you should care

04/27/2022

"As the effects of climate change continue to increase in frequency and severity worldwide, it is more important than ever that we can collect and analyze big data on weather patterns.

A significant weather data source is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service (NWS), which collects terabytes of climate data.

Climate science, a byproduct of the field of weather prediction, relies on advanced earth system models to target long-term trends of big data in weather patterns and ultimately predict, better understand, and develop responses to global warming and climate change scenarios."

Source:
https://www.heavy.ai/blog/how-big-data-on-weather-patterns-can-help-us-respond-to-the-climate-crisis

04/24/2022

From the Source:

"We’ve released new versions of GPT-3 and Codex which can edit or insert content into existing text, rather than just completing existing text. These new capabilities make it practical to use the OpenAI API to revise existing content, such as rewriting a paragraph of text or refactoring code.

This unlocks new use cases and improves existing ones; for example, insertion is already being piloted in GitHub Copilot with promising early results."

We’ve released new versions of GPT-3 and Codex which can edit or insert content into existing text, rather than just completing existing text. These new capabilities make it practical to use the OpenAI API to revise existing content, such as rewriting a paragraph of text or refactoring code. This

04/22/2022

"The Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) team at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) combines global data on climate and energy that aids the transition to renewable energy.

Key Takeaways"

-NASA delivers data that renewable energy players use for evidence-based decision-making.

- Visualizing energy data with maps and apps supports renewable planning and analysis.

- GIS maps show energy potential and provide greater solar and wind understanding."

NASA POWER provides renewable energy data to support clean energy projects, increase building energy efficiencies, and forecast crop yields.

04/20/2022

"A data pipeline represents the computations applied to one or more datasets, where the output of a given task becomes the input of the next one."

Best practices for organizing your data analysis logic

04/17/2022

"Vegetation mapping, monitoring and characterization are some of the most important and prolific exercises that employ satellite image processing in the agriculture and environmental monitoring sectors.

Scientists can determine the presence, health and vigor, and seasonal variations of vegetated features from space."

By: Dr. François G. F. Smith, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Maxar Technologies | 04.13.2022 Read Time: 5 minutes

04/15/2022

"Data is no longer just for data scientists and analysts. Data is for everyone. Easy access to digestible data empowers people to make better, informed decisions.

When average citizens have easy access to digestible climate data, they can make better, informed decisions about the world we live in.

When people have access to intuitive climate analysis tools that provide illuminating data visualizations, they can really see all of the elements affecting the environment around them, how they relate, and draw their own conclusions about how we should move forward in tackling the climate crisis."

Learn about the latest climate data analysis tools and how they can help us understand the full story of our relationship with the planet.

04/13/2022

https://towardsdatascience.com/modeling-urban-heat-wave-risk-with-satellite-imagery-and-lidar-data-3c00c63ea2db

A method for modeling environmental risk with GIS, statistical techniques and open python libraries

04/11/2022

From Paper's Abstract: "We present Block-NeRF, a variant of Neural Radiance Fields that can represent large-scale environments.

Specifically, we demonstrate that when scaling NeRF to render city-scale scenes spanning multiple blocks, it is vital to decompose the scene into individually trained NeRFs."

Source:

Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis

04/08/2022

"The blue dot is finding a home indoors, heralding a new cartographic era.

Key Takeaways:

- Indoor positioning may be the final frontier for modern mapping.

- New 3D modeling advances have made GIS a richer technology for mapping and managing indoor spaces.

- Indoor mapping and positioning promise to improve navigation, safety, and design."

With advances in geographic tools, maps of the indoor world will evolve to match the detail, clarity, and utility of traditional maps.

04/07/2022

"Micrographs capture fine micron/sub-micron sized features of materials that can significantly impact their properties."

Measurement of materials characteristics from images