Investigating Rainforest Destruction: Finding Illegal Airstrips With the Help of Machine Learning
Date of Publication
1-1-2023 12:00 AM
Security Theme
Illegal Mining
Keywords
Clandestine airstrips, Illegal mines, Satellite imagery, Artificial neural network, Amazon Mining Watch, Indigenous territories, illegal mining
Description
The Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) has asked its 2021 Fellows about the innovative methodologies behind their published impactful stories.From Freedom of Information requests to using AI to analyze satellite imagery, the reporters got their hands on previously unseen data that sheds light on the corruption and systems behind the destruction of the world’s biggest rainforests.
Investigating Rainforest Destruction: Finding Illegal Airstrips With the Help of Machine Learning
The Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) has asked its 2021 Fellows about the innovative methodologies behind their published impactful stories.From Freedom of Information requests to using AI to analyze satellite imagery, the reporters got their hands on previously unseen data that sheds light on the corruption and systems behind the destruction of the world’s biggest rainforests.
