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Nikolas Kuschnig

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Researcher (environmental economics and applied econometrics) at Monash University. Into deforestation, casual inference, and Bayesian stuff. Find out more at: https://kuschnig.eu/

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Plot illustrating our approach (columns): training data, model predictions, and segmented polygons in three instances (rows): mines in Brazil, Mozambique, and Indonesia.

Plot illustrating our approach (columns): training data, model predictions, and segmented polygons in three instances (rows): mines in Brazil, Mozambique, and Indonesia.

Where are mining sites actually expanding? Our new paper uses a ML model and satellite imagery to track 147k+ tropical mining sites from 2016–2024. Footprints of these sites grew by 24%, with major expansion in the Amazon, Indonesia & West Africa. doi.org/10.1038/s418...

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