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"Google and the World Resources Institute (WRI) this week announced the launch
of a new mapping tool touted as providing an unprecedented level of detail
about how land is being used around the world. Called Dynamic World, it’s said
to be the first global land cover data set available in near-real-time at high
resolution.
“It’s a new frontier in global, high-resolution, near-real-time environmental
monitoring,” Rebecca Moore, director of Google Earth, said at an online press
launch on June 6.
Powered by Google Earth Engine’s cloud-based artificial intelligence, Dynamic
World uses satellite imagery with a resolution of 10 by 10 meters (33 by 33
feet) from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellites to reveal
up-to-date coverage of a suite of different land and water types, including
urban development, wetlands, forests, crops and trees."
Via
Future Crunch issue 190:
https://futurecrunch.com/
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