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International Geospatial Briefing May 17th, 2021: Deepfake geography; the architectural heritage of Mexico City; the problem of space junk; a Female Future in GIS; tracking Coronavirus vaccines; Citizen science – mapping the location of Brood X Cicadas

AI can alter geospatial data to create deepfake geography. Many of us have seen the growing trend of videos of celebrities and politicians saying things they have never really said to warn us of the […]

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International Geospatial Briefing May 3: Growing problem of deepfake satellite images; Bird migration map shows huge influx into Michigan; Google Earth timelapse visualizes human footprint; Remote Sensing to study chimoanzees; Mapping of childhood undernutrition in India

False satellite images created by machine learning raise concerns about the reliability of data AI technologies has been used to created false satellite images and the phenomenon of “deepfake geography” will eventually affect the quality […]

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Canadian Geospatial Briefing April 26th: Ontario COVID-19 Vaccine Pharmacy Locator; 5G drones fly over UBC; AI & remote sensing for future Lac à Paul tailings dam; UBC prof uses Sim City-like program to map disease paths; Remote sensing map of Canada’s first highway to the Arctic

UWindsor researcher maps which Windsor neighbourhoods need help accessing vaccines Research by Carina Luo, a geospatial data analyst at the University of Windsor shows there are service gaps in vaccine availability across Ontario. Some areas […]