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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...