2024

A few years ago, a couple of Google employees reached out to a Minnesota scientist with an unusual proposal: What if they could teach computers to spot beaver habitats from space? “They wanted to know if I thought it was possible to find beaver wetlands from aerial imagery myself, and then if that could be ...

Illegal fishing practices through spoofing tracking devices in ships have become a common practice in the industrial use of our oceans. A new study published in the journal Nature corroborates the trend and offers a view of the changing oceanic activities and landscape. Led by Global Fishing Watch, a company founded by Google, the study ...

Regional geospatial, positioning and remote sensing conference, Geo Connect Asia, will return to Singapore on the 6th and 7th of March, 2024. The theme, ‘Geospatial driven impacts: underground, ground and sea to sky,’ will address key challenges facing the Asian region, from public health and critical infrastructure to AI and the monitoring of utility operations. ...