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New open-source Arctic images dataset coming
- briantakita 3y agoDoes the magnetic polar shift affect the jetstream? If the jetstream is affected, would the regional temperatures be affected? Would the weakening magnetosphere affect jetstreams & temperature? If so, how?
- mojomark 3y agoThis is an extremely annoying read. I was hoping for a rich dataset. The USCG and Government datasets are extremely sparse - especially in polar regions. Here you have the US Healy traversing the arctic and the only data collection this team sought to obtain from this voyage was a FLIR images and and broken up video clips (day rates for such vessels can easily run in the $50K/day US). What about filling the vast gaps in subsurface ocean and ice data? What about RF signal reception? Biological data? "We had 100-foot cables made for this project just in case of this type of scenario, which was a good thing because we only had a few inches to spare," Emily says. I'm sorry, but that's just 100% poor planning (read 100% "avoidable" by simply mapping the cable route ship arrangement drawings a priori) that almost jeopardized the entire data gathering effort. It's a single surveillance camera and data storage, mounted on a bulkhead. Not rocket science. I would honestly be embarrassed to be interviewed for this article if this were me. Apologies for venting, but this is really frustrating.
- amstan 3y agoWhy is the term open source used here? Sigh
- SleekEagle 3y agotbh i was wondering the same thing, I wasn't sure if people use that for datasets now