Sharper forest insights from spaceborne LiDAR

Spaceborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has become a powerful tool for observing forest height, biomass, carbon stocks ...
GitHub

Multi-platform point cloud analysis — registration, segmentation, surface reconstruction, and feature extraction for aerial, terrestrial, and UAV LiDAR.

Point cloud tooling in Python is fragmented. laspy reads files. Open3D visualizes them. PDAL pipelines transform them. But nothing treats acquisition platform as a first-class concept — and platform ...
CNET

AI Data Centers: What to Know About Their Water and Energy Use

OpenAI's Sam Altman says AI's water concerns are "totally fake." The truth about AI's impact on natural resources is more complicated. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...
Frontiers

Artificial intelligence-driven safety assessment of scaffolding using LiDAR sensing

The construction industry is embracing transformation through the integration of digitization, artificial intelligence (AI), and immersive technologies. On a construction site, continuous assessment ...
GitHub

Flash LiDAR Vehicle Detection with MATLAB Dataset and Deep Learning Benchmarks

This repository provides code and workflows to test several state-of-the-art vehicle detection deep learning algorithms —including YOLOX, SalsaNext, RandLA-Net, and VoxelRCNN— on a Flash Lidar dataset ...
Houston Chronicle

How much water do AI data centers use? A new survey could help Texas regulators find out.

Water consumption by data centers and cryptomining facilities will be the focus of a new data-collection effort launched Friday by the Texas Public Utility Commission. Demand to build new data centers ...
SUAS News

Optimizing Railway Infrastructure for Mining Using High-Resolution Drone LiDAR Survey Data

Transporting raw materials from mines to ports efficiently is a critical challenge in the mining industry. In Northern Cape, South Africa, a manganese mine faced high costs and inefficiencies moving ...
Forbes

How Liberty Mutual Insurance Is Using Data And AI To Deliver Value To Its Customers And Employees

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Randy Bean is a noted Senior Advisor, Author, Speaker, Founder, & CEO. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
Reuters

Microsoft rolls out initiative to limit data-center power costs, water use impact

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general population from any potential ...
ascopubs.org

Generative Artificial Intelligence Successfully Automates Data Extraction From Unstructured Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reports: Feasibility in Prostate Cancer Care

We developed a data pipeline using a secure, enterprise-wide deployment of OpenAI's GPT-4.0 to automatically extract data elements from prostate MRI report text when presented with prostate MRI ...
NPR

AI data centers use a lot of electricity. How it could affect your power bill

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...
The Washington Post

Supersized data centers are coming. See how they will transform America.

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...