Roopkund is a small Himalayan glacial lake in Uttarakhand, situated at an altitude of about 16,470 feet. With its breathtaking scenery, it is a popular trekking destination. However, there is more to this mysterious lake—hundreds of ancient human skeletons lie scattered here, earning it the name ‘skeletons lake’. In a recently published decade-long study, an international team of researchers seem to have traced the origins of these puzzling skeletons.
Researchers have developed a novel deep-learning architecture that generates high-quality synthetic images of rare land covers to eliminate bias and drastically improve the accuracy of environmental monitoring systems.
