By City News Service
Feb 19, 2021
SANTA ANA (CNS) - Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer today said a lawsuit challenging a DNA database overseen by his office was “outrageous and “absurd.
UC Irvine Law School professors and students filed the suit Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court against the county and Spitzer s office, seeking an injunction to prevent the D.A. s office from “coercing often indigent persons charged with misdemeanors into contributing their genetic material into its DNA database.
“The OCDA DNA collection program has solved crimes that would have never been solved, Spitzer said. “Participation in this program is completely voluntary, is in no way coercive, and involves multiple layers of safeguards to ensure absolute voluntary participation.
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Genuine Property Management: Orange County Property Management Company Announces a New Hire
COSTA MESA, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 16, 2021 / Orange County-based Genuine Property Management has just announced that they have hired a new property manager. This person will be filling one of their important property management roles. They stated that this new hire, Madison Watrous, brings an impressive set of educational, work, and extracurricular credentials to this position. The company likes to announce these hires to show those that use their services how dedicated they are to taking the necessary steps to be the best Costa Mesa area property management company.
Marcel Ford, the owner of Genuine Property Management, says, The management team here at Genuine Property Management can sit down for weeks and come up with great operating procedures and customer relations plans but none of that will matter if we don t have the right people in place to carry them out. That s why we take t
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Researchers Use Drone-Based Photogrammetry to Estimate Plant Biomass
Written by AZoRoboticsFeb 15 2021
In the past few decades, remote sensing technology has turned out to be a significant tool for researchers for
tracking variations in ice cover, land use and vegetation worldwide.
The experimental tallgrass prairie at the Morton Arboretum from above. This orthomosaic is constructed from almost 600 overlapping drone images. Image Credit: Lane Scher.
But satellite imagery is generally available at merely rough resolutions, enabling the analysis of only broad trends across huge regions.
For investigators working at finer scales in agriculture and ecology, remote controlled drones provide an increasingly cheap alternative; however, the laser-based technology, such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), used to estimate biomass and plant productivity, are still prohibitively costly.