UK could face three-day working week if war in Iran continues for too long

Jan Rosenow, Leader of the Energy Programme and Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the Environmental Change Institute ...

Thousand-acre prescribed fires coming to Pisgah, Nantahala forests. Why?

Prescribed fires are planned for Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests. Some are planned to be over a thousand acres. Here's what to know about closures.

Protecting Shorelines and Infrastructure: The Role of Consistent Waterway Monitoring in Coastal Community Resilience

Consistent monitoring provides measurable trends that inform restoration planning and infrastructure protection”— Joel ...
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Wikipedia Forced to Lock Down Edits Over JavaScript That Could Delete Pages

The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed to delete articles and place Russian text in the edit summary.
IEEE

A Unified Method for Visual Place Recognition and Loop Closure Detection in Aerial Vehicles Operating at Low Altitudes with Downward-Facing Cameras

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel architecture that efficiently integrates visual place recognition (VPR) and loop closure detection (LCD) into a unified system, evaluated on challenging outdoor ...

Nightly closures on I-35 threaten to disrupt travel through these San Antonio corridors

The Texas Department of Transportation is scheduling overnight work through March 6 to advance the multiyear Interstate 35 Northeast Expansion Program.
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Loop Closure via Maximal Cliques in 3D LiDAR-Based SLAM

Abstract: Reliable loop closure detection remains a critical challenge in 3D LiDAR-based SLAM, especially under sensor noise, environmental ambiguity, and viewpoint variation conditions. RANSAC is ...