Predicting What the Clouds are Covering Up

Episode 57 of the The Random Sample podcast, hosted by MACSYS, titled "Predicting What the Clouds are Covering Up" was published on August 17, 2021 and runs 32 minutes.

August 17, 2021 ·32m · The Random Sample

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Thousands of species around the world are being threatened by land clearing to make way for agricultural or urban development. To track...

Episode Description

Thousands of species around the world are being threatened by land clearing to make way for agricultural or urban development. To track land clearing, researchers are now turning to free satellite imagery to try to see what's going on in certain areas. But there's one big problem. At any given time, two-thirds of the earth is covered by clouds. To get around that, an ACEMS team developed new statistical modelling techniques to predict what the clouds are covering up in those images. The Random Sample is a podcast by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers. In this show, we share stories about mathematics, statistics and the people involved. To learn more about ACEMS, visit https://acems.org.au.

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