#imagery — Public Fediverse posts

from the via

from the via
francigena out of rome

the dust of the road
layered the sweat in my shirt   that dried
thirty one days of august deep

one of the first days in september
with the waist shallow
water of the torrente fersina
i scrubbed my face

People spout all sorts of nonsense about Tarot cards
https://ondermynende.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/tarot-twaddle/
#Tarot #Inklings #Christian #imagery

Comparing DESIS Hyperspectral and Landsat 10 Simulated Superspectral Data for Crop Type Classification in California’s Central Valley
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18142282 <-- shared paper
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https://www.usgs.gov/publications/comparing-desis-hyperspectral-and-landsat-10-simulated-superspectral-data-crop-type <-- shared USGs publication page
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H/T @USGS
“How can we get better at classifying crops from space? 🛰️🌽
Some types of satellite imagery are better at distinguishing crops than others. A USGS study compared two approaches and found one produced more accurate crop maps.
Here's what the researchers found:
• Hyperspectral imagery achieved 86% accuracy, compared to 75% for simulated superspectral imagery.
• Using just 14 carefully selected hyperspectral bands produced nearly the same results as using all 60 DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) bands, showing those wavelengths contain much of the information needed to distinguish crop types.
• Using superspectral imagery on the upcoming Landsat 10 mission will allow for routine tracking of crops and enhance finer crop mapping.
• The findings help scientists identify which wavelengths provide the most useful information for crop mapping and future remote sensing applications.
Better crop maps will help governments and scientists track global agriculture, monitor the current crop season, and study agricultural trends…”
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“HIGHLIGHTS:
• What are the main findings?
- The 14 DESIS hyperspectral narrowbands (10 nm) aligned with the Landsat 10 (formerly Landsat Next) spectral dataset produced similar accuracy results to the full 60-band DESIS hyperspectral dataset for classifying crop types. These 14 DESIS narrowbands resulted in higher accuracy than the 14 simulated Landsat 10 superspectral broadbands.
- When using DESIS narrowbands, Support Vector Machine (SVM) resulted in higher accuracy than Random Forest (RF).
• What are the implications of the main findings?
- A carefully selected set of 14 DESIS hyperspectral narrowbands (10 nm) can achieve classification accuracy comparable to those obtained using all 60 DESIS narrowbands across the 400–1000 nm range. These 14 strategically positioned narrowbands classified crop types with higher classification accuracy than the corresponding 14 Landsat 10 superspectral broadbands within the same spectral range.
- This study underscores the importance of multi-temporal imagery across the full crop-growing season for achieving more detailed and accurate crop type classifications. Such temporal coverage is more feasible with the planned Landsat 10 routine acquisition of broadband imagery than with task-based hyperspectral collections…”
#hyperspectral #superspectral #optimalbands #randomforest #supportvectormachine #agriculture #crops #croptype #classifaction #croplands #California #CentralValley #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #imagery #DESIS #Landsat #Landsat10 #satellite #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #global #AI #machinelearning #model #modeling #SupportVectorMachine #SVM #RandomForest #RF #GoogleEarthEngine
@USGS

Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery

https://research.google/blog/seeing-beyond-bmi-estimating-cardiometabolic-risk-with-smartphone-imagery/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372994

#HackerNews #BMI #Cardiometabolic #Risk #Smartphone #Imagery #Health #Tech #Innovation

ask if his mother lives

ask if his mother lives

story is   she died

her corpse   laid out on a bench carved
into the rock of
a grave at the foot of the mount of olives

another story is   her body was taken
from there   up

reunited with   what had fled from dying

in jerusalem   the church of the assumption
it’s said to be her tombstone

How #ArcGISPro multiscale surface tools reveal the hidden #seafloor structures that affect #ocean circulation https://tinyurl.com/msxnmvzn

#water #marine #oceanography #imagery #RemoteSensing #GIS #esri #arcgis #mapping @esri @gisandscience @esritraining @urisa

For a Day, #Google Made It Easy to #Spoof #Satellite #Imagery

A new #GoogleEarth tool allowed the creation of A.I. #deepfake maps. The tech giant quickly pulled it back after a backlash and concerns about #disinformation risks.
#ai
> Captain Obvious: Who woulda thunk people would use it that way 🤔

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/technology/google-earth-ai-satellite-images.html

ask every man for his name

ask every man for his name

the one who proves
his age by   a historic injury
closed in the palm of his hand

or by an ancient wound   healed
through the heel of his foot

who proves his age by an old
scar speared blindly into the soft
flesh over his hip   by

longinus whose bones   long ago
became the moist dust in a fertile field

the one who proves his age   ask
if he’s come to the end of the world

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/08/uk-children-explicit-deepfake-images-ai. "The Report Remove service, which blocks intimate #images from appearing #online, said there had been a rapid increase in #imagery that had been digitally manipulated or 'faked' in some way, including with #AI & nudification tools. In the first 6 months of this year it received 420 reports from #children of images of themselves that they believed had been faked or manipulated to appear #explicit. The number has already exceeded its 2025 total of 397."

the day mary

the day mary
is the mother of jesus   became the day
						mary was

	the sky must have been a nest of vipers

between the one
	snake- strike of lightning   down and the next
						there must have been thunder

a small whirlwind of dust
	on mount zion   must have coiled itself
	round and round into a funnel of cloud

that inhaled the cattle from the pasture
the fig trees from the garden

inhaled the tent mary had fled
and the body she’d left behind

after a thousand years
	and six hundred i wait for news

whether she’s returned to the dust
or whether she sits with elijah in paradise 

What's New in World #Imagery in #ArcGIS (July 2026) https://tinyurl.com/3w3x4796

#data #images #GIS #esri #mapping #maps #GISchat #geospatial @esri @esrifederalgovt @esrislgov @esritraining @urisa

the long tides of our shadows have receded

the long tides of our shadows have receded

this morning   early as we walked
away from the beginning of the sunrise

these shadows washed   far they flowed deep
into collegienstrasse toward the market

they flooded   away before us
four times the length of our height   then three

darkened the cobblestones   
like wednesday’s rain did

like the shadows of water darken 
the pebbles in the flaming* stream 

flooded into the square   as we arrived there

all the sunrise long our shadows receded

now it’s midday
the stones in the street have returned to the colour of dry

all that’s left of our shadows
are the puddles in which we stand

by collegienstrasse   return
toward the sky the morning sun’s abandoned

return to my chamber   and fetch my pail for water

step out of your own shade   
into the shadow of your foot


 *Fläming Heath- The Fläming Heath[1][2] (German pronunciation: [ˈflɛːmɪŋ] ⓘ) is a region and hill chain that reaches over 100 km from the Elbe river to the Dahme River in the German states Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg.

EU Imposes 24-Hour Delay on Copernicus Satellite Imagery Over Gulf of Oman

If this matters to you, share it.

https://1ban.news/eu-copernicus-imagery-delay-gulf-of-oman/

#1ban #copernicus #imagery #delay #gulf #space

#Earth #Observation with #RemoteSensing Foundation Models in #ArcGIS https://tinyurl.com/2vp8z5uh

#imagery #data #analysis #AI #embeddings #GIS #esri #mapping #GISchat #geospatial @esri @esrifederalgovt @esrislgov @esritraining @urisa

look at the vagabond

look at the vagabond
see that his ears are cropped

ask   was it yesterday his feet
were locked in the stocks

ask   was it last week he couldn’t
pull his head nor his hands from the pillory

say   tell me stranger
was it a month ago the good people 
of wittenburg threw offal at you   

smell that he’s putrid

ask   if under the wool of his doublet
the once white linen of his smock is slashed
with dried blood   ask if he was whipped

ask   if for the hours of the night
or if for years of a long dark he was
fettered in the dungeon under job’s castle1

look that his eyes blink against daylight
or that it’s his terrors that blink his eyes   say

to the man who walks the world alone
return with me to the town
i’ll give you a company to walk with
and a regiment to walk with the company


1.	Kloden Castle, about 30 miles from Wittenberg: In the late 16th century it was owned and the home of Jobst Kanne of the noble family of Kanne.

the stroll of the gentlewoman becomes a

the stroll of the gentlewoman becomes a 
march   past the man who 
sags outside the door against the wall

he with the eyes   full of storm on the horizon 
that measure the soil on the clothes and the wear 
the number of teeth in the mouths of those who pass   
the men who enter and the men who go out   

until the sight of one as poor as he   causes
the dark clouds in his eyes to reverse themselves   

until he asks   friend   can you spare a heller   

that one   for that one also   leave 
a place in the contract for his name

On July 1, 2026, The Company Once Known As Maxar Began Selling 3D Maps Of Earth It Can Refresh Within A Day Or Sharpen To 15 Centimeters, Built Less For People To Study Than For The Autonomous Drones And Weapons That Navigate By Matching Their Cameras Against The Terrain
(Vantor, the American Earth-observation company… is now rebuilding chosen stretches of the planet as three-dimensional models and delivering them within a day of imaging — a commercial first…)
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https://spacedaily.com/sd-on-july-1-2026-the-company-once-known-as-maxar-began-selling-3d-maps-of-earth-it-can-refresh-within-a-day-or-sharpen-to-15-centimeters-built-less-for-people-to-study-than-for-the-autonomous-dron/ <-- shared technical media article
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[this post should – most specifically – NOT be considered an endorsement of a particular organisation or product]
• “Built for GPS-denied warfare…
• The 3D twist changes the risk calculus…”
“Vantor, the American Earth-observation company…., is now rebuilding chosen stretches of the planet as three-dimensional models and delivering them within a day of imaging — a commercial first, the company says, and one aimed as much at autonomous machines as at the analysts and militaries who have always been its customers.
The service, called WorldView 3D, went live on July 1. It draws on a fleet of 10 satellites imaging Earth’s surface at 12-inch (30-centimeter) resolution, according to Space.com. The 3D views are constructed by combining multiple images taken from different orbital angles, then refreshed on a daily cadence — a speed the company says is impossible to match with aircraft or drones over remote or contested territory.
According to the company’s launch announcement… the service would enable rapid updates of remote and contested areas, calling it the future of spatial intelligence….
The product comes in two tiers…:
• Standard resolution delivers 20-inch (50 cm) imagery with 13-foot (4-meter) accuracy in all directions.
• The HD tier tightens that to 6-inch (15 cm) resolution with 10-foot (3-meter) positional accuracy in three dimensions.
Those numbers matter for a specific reason. Traditional 3D mapping — the kind used by autonomous vehicle companies and defense contractors — has historically relied on aircraft flights, drone surveys, or LiDAR passes. Those methods produce excellent detail. They also require physical access to the airspace above the target.
Vantor’s pitch is that satellites remove the access problem. A constellation in low Earth orbit passes over hostile territory as freely as it passes over Kansas…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #military #geoint #geointelligence #remotesensing #LiDAR #elevation #drones #weapons #warfare #conflict #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #imagery #3DModel #earthobservation #satellite #AI #machinelearning #GPS #hostileterritory #risk #hazard #WorldView3D #highresolution #changedetection #spatialintelligence

What's new in #Imagery in #ArcGISOnline (June 2026) https://tinyurl.com/2ykrzckw

#images #data #analysis #GIS #esri #arcgis #mapping #GISchat #geospatial @esri @esrifederalgovt @esrislgov @arcgisonline @esritraining

for these

for these
and for all those who have
no plow
and no anvil over which to bend
a plow into being

no seed
and no burgage1 over which
to spread seed

no meadow
and no swine to shepherd
into the meadow

for all those who wait
and in their wait make
the square drunk and quarrelsome
lewd and a fright

wait for the roads to thaw
and for the thawed roads to dry

wait to watch a plow cross
a selion2 pulled by an ox

wait for the winter cloak to be hung
and for the grass to green

who wait for the bloom to blow
off the branch   and for the apricot to ripen

to see a robin   wait
for there to come an end of winter

for there to come a war to go to

for all these
under what you’ve already written
in your scroll   write
we the undersigned


1 In a medieval context, a "burgage" refers to a tenure, or holding of land, within a borough or town, typically involving a fixed rent or other services to a lord or the crown. AI


2 A "selion" is a historical term referring to a narrow strip or ridge of land used for cultivation in the open-field system of medieval Europe. It was typically one furlong long and one chain wide, making it roughly one acre in area, though exact measurements could vary.

Geospatial Data As Bioethical Evidence
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https://doi.org/10.4401/jgsg-111 <-- shared paper
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https://theconversation.com/gaza-we-analysed-a-year-of-satellite-images-to-map-the-scale-of-agricultural-destruction-248796 <-- shared technical article
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-the-satellite-tech-revealing-gazas-destruction/ <-- shared 2023 technical article
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“Satellite imagery now documents systematic patterns of infrastructure destruction at spatial resolutions and temporal cadences that were unavailable during the atrocities of the twentieth century. Whether and how such data may enter bioethical deliberation, however, remains under-theorized. Quantitative remote sensing produces damage percentages, not normative claims, and bridging the two without committing an is-ought fallacy requires an explicit epistemological procedure. The contribution developed here is normative and epistemological rather than empirical. A six-component admissibility framework integrates, for the first time, geospatial evidence, population-level bioethical principlism, and the coherentist verification epistemology of political fact-checking into a single reproducible procedure for the bioethical use of satellite imagery. The first component specifies evidence admissibility criteria tailored to bioethical rather than strictly legal use. The second requires coherentist triangulation across methodologically independent remote sensing studies. The third operates as a bioethical relevance filter mapping infrastructure categories onto population-level social determinants of health. The fourth operationalizes principlism by translating health justice, accountability, solidarity, and sustainability into measurable geospatial observables. The fifth establishes ethical representation safeguards against voyeuristic or dehumanizing uses of destruction imagery. The sixth demands explicit epistemic humility regarding uncertainty, data missingness, and attribution limits. The Gaza conflict provides the case in point. Two independently produced geospatial studies, one based on SAR coherent change detection and one on very-high-resolution optical analysis, converge on extensive damage to civilian healthcare, water, sanitation, and educational infrastructure, and thereby satisfy the coherentist triangulation requirement of the framework. The resulting inference licenses bioethical claims of systematic survival infrastructure degradation while preserving transparent boundaries between what satellite evidence can and cannot establish about genocidal intent…”
#geoethics #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #imagery #satellite #opendata #conflict #war #military #destruction #infrastructure #spatiotemporal #bioethical #evidence #damagepercentages #spatialanalysis #change #quantitative #metrics #normative #epistemological #admissibility #framework #factchecking #controlled #publicsafety #publichealth #healthjustice #geospatialobservables #observation #uncertainty #controls #boundaries #changedetection #coherentisttriangulation #example #gaza

"Streisand Effect":
Russian Maps Blurred 119 Of Russia’s Own Military Sites In The Nordics And Baltics—And Gave Away Their Locations
(The objects blurred on Yandex run from air bases and shipyards to nuclear-weapons facilities, reporters from four countries found.)
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https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/28/russian-maps-blurred-119-of-russias-own-military-sites-in-the-nordics-and-baltics-and-gave-away-their-locations/ <-- sharede technical media article
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https://www.nrk.no/order-138_-russia_s-growing-defense-industry-hides-behind-yandex_s-blurs-1.17935388 <-- shared technical media article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #military #site #base #shipyard #blurred #imagery #Russia #Ukraine #geoint #aerialimagery #remotesensing #satellite #Kaliningrad #nuclear #deepstrike #drone #opendata #NATO #planning #attack #BalticSea #airbase #barracks #sensitivesites #blurring #pixelation #arms #munitions #targets #Streisandeffect #censorship #fuel #supplies #intelligenceservices #largescale #conflict #informationcontrol #Order138
@Yandex

those west faced

those west faced
walls of masonry and brickwork

that all wednesday were  
damp darkened by rain wash

through all the hours of sunrise
today   
               those housefronts and market
stalls were shadow tinted

but now that sunless hue recedes
down those walls like a tide

now those walls are sunlight shaded
like mortar   like mud at midday  

go to that dark monastery where i live
and i’ll pay for your daily bread

walk like one who knows
the time between the shades is short

🏷️ #Earthquake #Venezuela #Satellite #Imagery

🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/26/world/americas/venezuela-earthquake-damage-coast.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tFA.IRhM.OenyZRrL-rJj&smid=url-share

Show me the Money! No, wait, we are not going to do that! Or - trying to go it alone was not going to work?

Getty Images announced it will enable OpenAI to put its licensed content libraries inside ChatGPT's search and discovery.

Details on the financials and how/if image credits/source links would be displayed were not disclosed.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/getty-images-stock-soars-openai-132750994.html #GettyImages #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Imagery #LicensedContent #LLMs #LLMTraining #AI #AI_Generated_Art #CopyRight #DigitalContent

my father could afford to pay the fare

my father could afford to pay the fare

the horizon ahead was a curtain closed

behind the curtain   in the next day lay
wittenberg and that winter two winters before

the carriage that brought me from 
summer and a place where 
there was nothing for me to do   there was

a draft that entered those long days
in from around the windows
in from around the doors
in from where the walls joined walls joined
the top     joined the floor that draft entered
in through the spaces between the threads of my blouse
between the threads of my trousers

that entire life through i shivered

i wanted a blanket     a hooded robe

i asked that the carriage be stopped
stopped at a roadside inn or at a tavern

that wind     that draft that entered
in   it would have diminished

i could have warmed   stepped out   eaten 


but the driver whipped
the sweat on those horses even more
and the turn of those carriage wheels never stopped
‘til the carriage skidded no     sledded into wittenberg

wittenberg grounded in snow

the clothes i wore
that i’d outgrown in the summer left behind i   i shrank

i had to employ a hand to hold
my trousers up from down in the snow around my ankles

i was so hungry

and wittenberg was just another carriage 
worse than the first

but there was philosophy to distract
from the misery and there were books to read

and my father could afford to pay the fare

in the sun brillianced square

in the sun brillianced square

my saturday shadow had shrunk
down to the small
circle in which i stood

loudly the gander flocks gaggled
and more loudly the merchant throngs
and the throngs of purchasers haggled

i received
free rumours of plagues and of wars
free news of birth and of death
 
i was offered cabbage and kale
offered turnips and carrots
garlic and leeks   beans and peas
spinach and lettuce   good king henry
pork   lamb   poultry

before i bought a loaf
of rye bread for a pfenning or
for a pfenning   a pound of cheese

a chemise for a half thaler
or for a whole thaler i was offered
a barrel of peasant wine

before my shadow lengthened
i escaped the sun blinding market
through the door into the black eagle
into the dark dimmed with torches

A simple coincidence or just a chance situation - or is this a deliberate placement?

Four Russian military satellites were launched into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) last month (Kosmos-2610, Kosmos-2611, Kosmos-2612, and Kosmos-2613).

Between May 14 and 20, the Russian satellites began maneuvering and altered their orbits and moved toward ICEYE-X36, a Finnish radar satellite that has been supplying data to Ukraine’s military since 2022.

The Russian spacecraft ended up in the same orbit as ICEYE-X36, at an altitude of 550 kilometers and approx. 13 kilometers away from the Finnish craft. Suggestion is the Russian craft may be "inspector satellites". https://meduza.io/en/cards/four-russian-military-satellites-came-within-13-kilometers-of-a-radar-satellite-operated-by-a-finnish-company-that-supplies-ukraine-with-battlefield-imagery-legitimate-targets-moscow-said-in-2022 #Space #Russia #Finland #Satellites #InspectorSatellites #RadarSatelliteImagery #Radar #Imagery #LEO #ICEYE #Ukraine

squinted sun peeks

squinted sun peeks
over the edge

bright eye opened 

eye from the far east
oriental

eye of one   pot stoned

eye the colour of fire

white surf stretches
from the corners of the eye

it squints at the house 

white comes out of the walls 
red comes out of the roof

squints at the barn 

red comes out of the walls 
green comes out of the roof

squints at the grass   at the trees

green comes out of the grass blades 
out of the leaves

squints at the parking lot

black comes blacker than the night 
was   out of the asphalt

the eye squints at you  

your colours come blonde 
out of your hair
caucasian out of your face
navy blue out of your jacket
denim blue out of your jeans

from the eye’s corners flames roll
like tears across the edge

this is how day wakes
how the sun begins to open 

☸️ A Question About Floods (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2016)

Tags: #BuddhaQuotes #Imagery #Wisdom
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/sn38.11

What’s new for #GeoAI in the #ArcGISPro 3.7 #Image Analyst extension https://tinyurl.com/yc79twvh

#AI #imagery #DataMgmt #GIS #esri #arcgis #GISchat #geospatial @esri @arcgispro @esrifederalgovt @esrislgov @esritraining @urisa