Is AI Turning Satellites into All-Seeing Supercomputers?

Upon closer inspection, the satellite had noticed that an area that should have been shrouded in forest, was now barren. Within hours, a call had been made to a global conservation group, who mounted a legal case against the logging companies operating in the area. That process, historically, could have taken months of observing and recording changes. What's more, in remote areas such as the Ussuri Taiga in Russia's Far East, policing illegal logging operations have historically had little impact on the extraction of timber. But thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) and satellites, the ability to observe and respond to changes has become much faster.