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South Korea's Forest Service announced on Wednesday it plans to establish a real-time forest resource management system and an AI-based forest fire monitoring platform. The resource management system will rely on agricultural and forestry satellites. The country plans to establish a "National Forest Satellite Information …

  1. xyz Silver badge

    Sounds daft I know but...

    This is all good stuff. Tree counting is the easy bit, the ballbreaker is the satellite soil and light data resolution which is woeful, so probably why you need "AI" to guess the bits in between the sampling points.

    Note to ESA (and by extension NASA). Your site says all data is free to everyone and it is but the access method if you are not "one of the club" is from the 1990s. Surely you have a public access API these days rather than the FTP kludge that is on offer.

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