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Elephants counted from space for conservation – BBC News
Satellite imagery is being used to count elephants in a breakthrough that could aid conservation.
By Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC News
image copyrightMaxar Technologies
image captionAn algorithm is trained to pick out an elephant against a complex backdrop such as a forest
At first, the satellite images appear to be of grey blobs in a forest of green splotches – but, on closer inspection, those blobs are revealed as elephants wandering through the trees.
And scientists are using these images
to count African elephants from space.
The pictures come from an Earth-observation satellite…
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