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Ghermay Araya + Ran Goldblatt + Shawn Li Aug 29, 2024 4:22:31 PM

Leveraging LiDAR for Assessing Urban Tree Heights: A Case Study in Washington, D.C.

Urban trees are a crucial component of cities' environmental sustainability, contributing to various environmental, climatological, and social aspects of urban life, including human health, mitigation of the urban heat island effect, and maintaining overall ecological balance. Urban trees assist in ...
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NLT Staff Aug 6, 2024 11:52:24 AM

Join Us at JSM 2024: A Gathering of Statistical Minds

We are excited to announce that our team will be attending the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2024, held from August 3-8 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. This prestigious event, themed "Statistics and Data Science: Informing Policy and Countering Misinformation," brings together ...
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NLT Staff Jul 11, 2024 2:18:39 PM

Enhancing Census Data Privacy with Approximate Monte Carlo Simulation

Introduction In a groundbreaking move, the U.S. Census Bureau employed a differential privacy framework for the 2020 Census to safeguard respondents' confidentiality. A pivotal tool in this effort is the TopDown Algorithm (TDA), which applies controlled noise to the data to create privacy-protected ...
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NLT Staff Mar 25, 2024 11:36:47 PM

Shaping Cooler Cities: Insights from a Collaborative Study on Urban Homogenization and Heat Islands

Study Overview This section of our blog focuses on a groundbreaking study that looks into how cities are changing and the effects these changes have on the environment, particularly in terms of heat. Dr. Ran Goldblatt and colleagues have been at the forefront of this research, using satellite ...
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NLT Staff Jan 30, 2024 4:25:25 PM

Navigating the Automation Revolution in Manufacturing

Introduction The manufacturing sector in the United States is currently undergoing a paradigm shift with the aid of automation. Emin Dinlersoz and Zoltan Wolf conducted a notable research study that explored the consequences of automation on labor and productivity in the manufacturing industry, and ...
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Ran Goldblatt Aug 30, 2022 2:17:00 PM

Fifty years of nightly global low-light imaging satellite observations

The article "Fifty years of nightly global low-light imaging satellite observations" offers a comprehensive overview of nighttime light (NTL) data collection via satellites, starting from the 1970s with the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). It emphasizes the transition to the ...
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Tim Kuhn Nov 18, 2021 10:49:16 AM

NLT’S CHIEF SCIENTIST AND COLLEAGUES PUBLISH NOVEL RESEARCH IN NATURE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT MAGAZINE: GLOBAL URBANICITY, BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR.

NLT’s Chief Scientist Ran Goldblatt, Ph.D., and his colleagues, including several other world-class researchers, have gone thru the long and arduous process of peer-review on their project “Global urbanicity is associated with brain and behavior in young people”, which was recently published in ...
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Tim Kuhn Apr 17, 2019 12:29:21 PM

New Light Technologies, Inc. (NLT) Expands its Research Team and Capacity

NLT provides a full range of services to support cutting edge scientific research in geospatial & data science. The New Light Technologies, Inc. (NLT) continuously works to assure a successful implementation of basic and applied research, including full-lifecycle research design, identification ...
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