no code implementations • 16 Aug 2024 • Debashis Gupta, Aditi Golder, Luis Fernendez, Miles Silman, Greg Lersen, Fan Yang, Bob Plemmons, Sarra Alqahtani, Paul Victor Pauca
Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is a low-cost yet highly destructive mining practice, leading to environmental disasters across the world's tropical watersheds.
no code implementations • 5 Mar 2024 • Kangning Cui, Zishan Shao, Gregory Larsen, Victor Pauca, Sarra Alqahtani, David Segurado, João Pinheiro, Manqi Wang, David Lutz, Robert Plemmons, Miles Silman
This heatmap effectively visualizes the distribution of palms, showcasing the scalability and adaptability of our approach in various forest densities.
1 code implementation • 19 Jun 2022 • Kangning Cui, Seda Camalan, Ruoning Li, Victor P. Pauca, Sarra Alqahtani, Robert J. Plemmons, Miles Silman, Evan N. Dethier, David Lutz, Raymond H. Chan
Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is an important source of income for many households, but it can have large social and environmental effects, especially in rainforests of developing countries.
1 code implementation • 4 May 2021 • Ashley Peake, Joe McCalmon, Yixin Zhang, Daniel Myers, Sarra Alqahtani, Paul Pauca
Often, these missions start with building a map for the environment via pure exploration and subsequently using (i. e. exploiting) the generated map for downstream navigation tasks.
no code implementations • 3 Dec 2019 • Xiaotian Liu, Pengyi Shi, Sarra Alqahtani, Victor Paúl Pauca, Miles Silman
However, algorithms for autonomous exploration often focus on optimizing time and coverage in a greedy fashion.