Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act in major redistricting case, voiding Louisiana's congressional map

The Supreme Court rule 6-3 in a decision that has implications for the scope of the landmark Voting Rights Act.
AlphaGalileo

Coloring the map to reduce visual drift in GNSS-denied navigation

A research team has developed a camera-only visual odometry (VO) system that uses prebuilt colored point cloud maps to ...

Read Supreme Court’s Ruling and Dissent on Louisiana Voting Map

The justices, split along ideological lines, found that Louisiana’s voting map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
Capital B

Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Makes a Black Neighborhood a Testing Lab for AI Policing

This story was published in partnership with Counterstream Media for The AI issue of Peace & Riot. ATLANTA — When he drives ...
Carnegie Mellon University

DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe, Will Continue To Explore

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, has finished its planned 3D map of the universe — but the work is far from over. Carnegie Mellon University researchers are already pushing the ...
IEEE

A Range-Doppler Map Generation Framework for Moving Targets Based on Time-Domain Electromagnetic Scattering Algorithm

Abstract: In this paper, a method is proposed to obtain the range-Doppler map in cases of antenna-target encounter based on near-field time-domain physical optics (TDPO) method. Firstly, the TDPO ...
IEEE

Fine Imaging Method of THz-ViSAR on Sub-aperture Range Migration Algorithm and Distinctive-point Map Drift Algorithm

Abstract: Video synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a new type of synthetic aperture radar. In order to achieve high imaging frame rate, the data collected by video SAR is divided into multiple units ...