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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

allochthonous@scicomm.xyz ("Chris Rowan") wrote:

What you see when combining satellite radar and machine learning to track the vessels that don't have or switch off their tracking boxes.

- 75% of the industrial fishing vessels, and 30% of transport and energy vessels not publicly tracked.
- by 2021 wind turbines made up almost 50% of ocean infrastructure, although there has also been an increase in new oil platforms (which have far more ship traffic).

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/3/24018797/ocean-maps-ai-satellite-imagery-radar-fishing-vessels-offshore-energy-wind-oil