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Chief Secretary of Nagaland, J. Alam, has unveiled two significant online statistical data collection applications developed by the Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Nagaland. The launching programme was held on August 22 at the Chief Secretary’s Conference Hall in Kohima. According to a DIPR report, the first application is the Village Level Development Indicators (VLDI), ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will collect water samples from about 180 wells in St. Louis County for use in the development of a Groundwater Atlas of St. Louis County. Selected well owners will be contacted by mail or phone to request permission to sample their wells. The process involves collecting a water sample ...

O MapBiomas publicou sua primeira coleção de mapas anuais de cobertura e uso da terra do Brasil feita a partir de imagens de satélite com resolução espacial de 10 metros. A coleção MapBiomas 10 Metros beta produzida com dados dos satélites Sentinel-2 traz os anos de 2016 a 2022 e utiliza um método semelhante e ...

Geospatial artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models are set to transform the monitoring of air quality in major Indian cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, and Kolkata. This groundbreaking development was announced by a senior scientist during the India Clean Air Summit (ICAS) 2023. “We must link up SDGs and air pollution indicators, as ...

In addition to datasets based on mercurial census tracts and census blocks, the U.S. Census Bureau will soon begin publishing datasets in a more reliable gridded format, an agency geographer said during an online event Thursday. Joshua Coutts, a geographer with the bureau’s geography division, told attendees of a National States Geographic Information Council webinar ...

Using satellite images, scientists at the British Antarctic Survey were able to see that sea ice in the central and eastern Bellingshausen Sea region last year broke up long before the start of the birds’ fledgling period, when penguin chicks would have developed their waterproof feathers. The research, published Thursday in the journal Communications Earth ...