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ecology - phytoplankton - functional traits

26/04/2021

3/5/2021

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Anyone with expertise in GIS & remote sensing who could help me figure something out?
This twitter thread made me think that we may be able to better estimate deaths across India using satellite imagery of funeral pyres. Would this be feasible? How would we go about it? What expertise/manpower would be needed to make this happen?

The reason I ask is that there's a very real chance that tens to hundreds of thousands will die uncounted and that it will all be forgotten. I'd like to help out with efforts to avoid that.
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    Why I did this

    I am not an expert on Covid, viruses, or vaccines, but I am a scientist with relevant training. I believe we have a responsibility to clearly communicate science to the public, especially in emergencies. So I started to write summaries of Covid developments on facebook in March 2020 to help friends and family understand the situation as it unfolded. This is an archive of those posts (created much later).

    I also tracked the spread of alarming Covid variants for a few months at http://covidvarianttracking.com/ and mapped the consequences of faster variant spreading at https://tabsoft.co/2YwHCmZ.
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