Category: population

App allows citizen scientists to track monarch butterfly migration

Post author By Randall
Post date August 16, 2019
Categories In app, butterflies, butterfly, citizen scientists, collector for arcgis, database, decline, east coast, extinction, gear, gis, green, insect, migration, model, monarch, population, prediction, Research, Tech, testing, tracking, validation

[ad_1] According to the researchers, monarch butterflies conduct one of the most dramatic migrations in the world. Each fall, the monarchs in New England turn south and begin a 3,000-mile journey to their overwintering grounds. But like all insects, monarchs are dwindling. The number that complete that long migration has fallen by 90 percent in […]

Facebook used its AI smarts to build detailed disease prevention maps

Post author By Randall
Post date May 20, 2019
Categories In Ai, Artificial Intelligence, artificialintelligence, demographics, Facebook, gear, Internet, location data, location tracking, locationdata, locationtracking, mapping, maps, medicine, movement, population, Tech

[ad_1] These maps, Facebook suggests, could help health organizations better determine how to handle outbreaks or distribute supplies because they’ll provide insights on where people live and move and whether they are connected. Groups such as the American Red Cross are already using them to determine areas in which people are concentrated and coordinate health […]