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Remote sensing methods are transformative tools used to study deforestation, but they are by no means perfect. In the new paper “Remotely Incorrect? Accounting for Nonclassical Measurement Error in Satellite Data on Deforestation,” published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, authors Jennifer Alix-Garcia and Daniel L. Millimet discuss how errors ...

Last Week, The California State Parks System (CSP) Announced The Addition Of Location Technology To Improve Rescue Operations And The Park Visitor Experience. In Recent Years, New Technologies Like Drones And Robots Are Being Used In Places Like Travis County, Texas, To Improve Search And Rescue Operations. The Location Technology From What3words Has Been Implemented ...

The earth beneath our major cities is heating up, morphing in ways that could damage buildings, bridges, and transport systems. Just ask any passenger sweltering on the London Underground or New York City subway, and they’ll perspire telling you about how underground transport systems are spewing heat. As that heat diffuses into the ground, it’s ...

Trimble announced today the release of the Trimble® Terra™ Office add-in for Esri ArcGIS Pro. The add-in is a new product in Trimble’s Terra Office suite of desktop solutions for integrating Trimble TerraFlex® field data collection software with GIS systems of record. With a streamlined user interface, the new Terra Office add-in for ArcGIS Pro ...

Maxar Technologies, provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, today announced the initial release of its new Maxar Geospatial Platform (MGP), enabling fast and easy access to the world’s most advanced Earth intelligence. MGP will simplify the discovery, purchasing and integration of geospatial data and analytics. MGP users will have access to ...

Creating a net-zero carbon emissions power sector and economy is an immense endeavor that requires a host of intricate technologies and applications, and the CO2-Locate database is a centralized platform that allows users to quickly and accurately obtain the data they need. Now published on the Energy Data eXchange® (EDX), CO2-Locate is one of several ...

What was called the ‘wildfire risk map’ is now the ‘wildfire hazard map.’ The map is intended to educate homeowners about their exposure to wildfire risk, determine where fire mitigation resources should be prioritized and identify where future state rules on home hardening and defensible space will apply. The name change reflects a shift by ...

The Tennessee Department of General Services is pleased to announce the launch of the new State-Owned Land Dashboard, a Geographic Information System (GIS) public-facing map displaying all the land the state owns. The map gives users access to a comprehensive list of state-owned properties with numerous data points for each property, including address, District, State ...

For Massachusetts to meet it ambitious clean energy goals, the state needs to build between 25 and 35 gigawatts of solar capacity by 2050. Currently, there are about 3 gigawatts installed — so it’s a tall order. But according to a new study from the state’s Department of Energy Resources, there’s more than enough suitable ...

Devices that move and operate in physical space need sensors to read their environment. One such sensing technology, LiDAR, has many potential applications, but is often too large or too expensive to be a viable choice. Now, a team of researchers at University of Washington has developed a much smaller and less costly form of ...

Vision depends on light entering the eyes through the transparent tissues of the cornea, pupil and lens. When the light reaches the retina, photoreceptors produce signals and transmit them via the optical nerve to the brain, where an image is formed. Some of that light entering the eye is reflected back into the world by ...

It lets users capture any object with their smartphone camera and quickly creates a high-quality, detailed 3D model of it for use in any AR or metaverse application. AR-Generation now offers an extension that enables direct export of 3D models from MagiScan to NVIDIA Omniverse, a development platform for connecting and building 3D tools and ...

A new Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi initiative aims to foster the next generation of land surveyors and geospatial scientists. The initiative aims to develop a curriculum for high school students and develop training workshops for high school STEM educators, as well as geospatial camps for middle school teachers. “We’ve seen a decline in the number ...

Alphabet-owned Google on Tuesday said it is cutting jobs at mapping app Waze as it merges the app’s advertising system with Google Ads technology, without giving details on the number of layoffs. Google had in December said that it will merge Waze and Google Maps teams to consolidate processes, making it a part of the ...

The City of Santa Maria has launched a new website that allows people to report and track non-emergency issues located within the city limits. Called Neighborhood Connect, the website is a GIS (geographic information system)-based program designed to help city government track and identify trends, and to improve overall customer service. The website allows users ...

Using a revolutionary new AI-powered method, researchers are mining old insurance maps to visually reconstruct “ghost” neighborhoods — with promising results. The process could help with efforts to better estimate the economic loss caused by the demolition of historically diverse neighborhoods nationwide. It could also humanize that oft-forgotten history, bringing it to life in a ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have constructed a fully autonomous boat that can carry out bathymetric surveys — surveys of the depth and terrain of bodies of water like oceans, rivers and lakes. The team hopes the robotic boat can help simplify the survey process, which usually takes a crew of ...

The Union Agriculture Ministry has signed an MoU with Pixxel Space India Pvt. Ltd., to develop various geospatial solutions, mainly for monitoring the health of crops and soil. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Monday in the presence of Agriculture Secretary Manoj Ahuja. Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre on behalf of the ministry will ...

Water supply in Utah’s capital city is in a good place after a robust snowpack runoff that’s all but over. As the irrigation season moves forward, Salt Lake City is turning to a new tool to help reduce overwatering in the summer. Salt Lake City officials announced a new pilot program with Utah State University ...

The governments of the United States and India have agreed to work more closely together in spaceflight, with India signing the Artemis Accords and the two countries planning for a joint mission of some kind to the International Space Station. In a fact sheet distributed by the White House, the governments said they agreed that ...

A new startup, Danti, came out of stealth June 21 with a search engine designed for users of geospatial data. Danti is among a growing number of startups that are riding the artificial intelligence wave. Its search engine relies on natural language models to help users of its search engine find relevant information about places ...

American Farmland Trust, in partnership with several South Carolina governmental and advocacy groups, is launching a tool that does precisely this to preserve vital farmland at risk of development. Palmetto 2040: Visioning Alternative Futures, Launching Solutions is a geospatial modeling and policy analysis tool designed to identify and model future outcomes, areas at highest risk ...

When Molly Burhans first started trying to map the Catholic Church’s global property holdings so the land could be put to work fighting climate change, the idea seemed so obvious to her that she was sure someone else must be doing it already. Burhans, a cartographer, was then an ecological-design grad student who had recently ...

For malaria elimination officer Jerry Maambo, protecting eastern Zambia’s residents from the mosquito-borne disease starts with knowing where people live. Maambo and his team are working to curb rising malaria cases in the Katete district, where cases surged by nearly 50% in 2020 over the previous year. Malaria infects more than 200 million people annually ...

Distinguishing separate plant species from one another is hard even for human eyes; however, a team of UConn researchers was able to use data from a satellite nearly 500 miles (786km) above Earth’s surface to map Connecticut’s forest understory plant communities. The results of this study are published in Remote Sensing of Environment. The understory, ...

Members of the House Armed Services Committee in a report last week expressed support for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s use of commercial satellite data. They also asked NGA for details on its plans to integrate commercial data and services into “base programs of record.” “The committee notes that the domestic commercial satellite imagery industry continues ...

Water is an essential and indispensable component of humanity’s everyday existence. As the global population grows and the climate warms, so does the water demand. Over the past two decades, global reservoirs have become increasingly empty despite an overall increase in total storage capacity due to the construction of new reservoirs. Led by Dr. Huilin ...

Satellogic Inc., a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, today announced that four NewSats Mark-V spacecraft successfully reached low-Earth orbit following a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on June 12th from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This marks Satellogic’s 15th mission and its first payload comprised exclusively of its latest generation spacecraft with advanced ...

Nearly every city here in the valley is growing at a rapid pace, and the city of Madison is no exception. In order for residents to keep up with this growth… the city has recently launched a new mapping tool where folks can keep an eye on approved projects, upcoming construction, and openings. “Madison is ...

Indian space sector startup Azista BST Aerospace Pvt Ltd`s first remote sensing satellite ABA First Runner (AFR) was successfully orbited by SpaceX`s Falcon 9 rocket. According to SpaceX, the rocket on a dedicated rideshare mission carried 72 spacecraft that includes CubeSats, MicroSats and others and one of them was the Ahmedabad-based Azista BST Aerospace`s 80 ...