Quote: Three captains, three ships—we’d figured our chances of running the blockade were pretty good.
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Man-o'-war
#AernLiddane #Stormhag #Windracer #ArcadianKing #Impervious #VorreaTalminari
Ship - PathfinderWiki

USGS Releases New Products that Map Four Decades of Land Cover Change | U.S. Geological Survey

RESTON, Va. — The U.S. Geological Survey today released a newly updated and improved National Land Cover Database, known as Annual NLCD, which offers insights into the changing characteristics of landscapes across the conterminous United States from 1985 to 2023.

New National Heat Index Uses USGS Data | U.S. Geological Survey

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has debuted a Heat and Health Index to help residents understand how likely they are to feel adverse effects of heat in their community. Among the index’s data sources is the National Land Cover Database (NLCD), produced at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.

Murder, coup, bribery: Trump team stands by extreme hypotheticals in Supreme Court immunity case

Rachel Maddow recaps the day's arguments before the Supreme Court on "presidential immunity" and the lengths to which justices devoted to Donald Trump and the Republican Party went to accommodate Trump's audacious argument that he should be impervious from prosecution for his role in the January 6 insurrection.  

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Tom on Instagram: "Wheel - Columbiahalle, Berlin #wheel #impervious #columbiahalle #berlin #prog #epicapocalypsetour #musicphotography #concertphotography #sonya7riv"

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#Floods:
They paved paradise (Joni Mitchell)
and cooked it up with a lot of #fossilfuels
or
"The country’s #stormwater #drain system was designed for the #climate we used to have – 50 or more years ago. What we need is a stormwater system designed for the climate we have now, and the one we’ll have in 50 years from now. Another part of the response can be a “softening” of the urban environment. Tar-seal and #concrete surfaces force water to stay at the surface, to pool and flow."
https://theconversation.com/the-auckland-floods-are-a-sign-of-things-to-come-the-city-needs-stormwater-systems-fit-for-climate-change-198723

#Sealed #Roads become rivers
https://theconversation.com/auckland-floods-even-stormwater-reform-wont-be-enough-we-need-a-sponge-city-to-avoid-future-disasters-198736

#impervious #surfaces #cars storage #carparks #driveways #pollution #sewage combined #sewer overflow #suburbia #transition

The Auckland floods are a sign of things to come – the city needs stormwater systems fit for climate change

The more the climate warms, the heavier the storm rainfalls will become. The Auckland emergency shows how urgently adaptive measures are now needed.

The Conversation

Using #infrared aerial #imagery and

~~MACHINE LEARNING~~

I taught the computer to classify an area into:

1. #Impervious surfaces

2. Live grass/turf/landscaping

3. Live #tree foliage

4. Bare earth/#soil / vegetation that might live if you #water it

#GIS #gischat #ml