Somewhere off the coast of Massachusetts, a small team of volunteers scans the Atlantic Ocean every single day — not with satellites, not with tracking chips, but with their own eyes, binoculars and drones.
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Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
6 Apr. 2026
The model scans 10-by-10-meter squares of land to determine whether poppies are present by their telltale orange color.
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