Month: April 2021

“A Growing Problem of ‘Deepfake Geography’: How AI Falsifies Satellite Images” – By Kim Eckart for University of Washington News.

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satellite photo of Tacoma using geospatial data from Beijing, with shadows cast from most buildings
What may appear to be an image of Tacoma is, in fact, a simulated one, created by transferring visual patterns of Beijing onto a map of a real Tacoma neighborhood.Zhao et al., 2021, Cartography and Geographic Information Science
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An American Grim Reality: “HUD: Growth Of Homelessness During 2020 Was ‘Devastating,’ Even Before The Pandemic” — By Pam Fessler for NPR”

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Homeless individuals sleep near a National Guard truck ahead of the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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