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Nearly 34 million people across 65 US cities — roughly one in 10 Americans — live in a place where the built environment makes temperatures feel at least 8 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than it would without that urban sprawl. That’s according to a new study by the nonprofit Climate Central, which mapped the impact of ...

The Earth’s spin axis is not constant. It moves slowly over time relative to the Earth’s crust. This is caused by various processes on the surface and inside the Earth, such as the melting of ice masses or the uplift of land masses, as well as mass shifts in the Earth’s viscous mantle and core. ...

Taking serious note of the complaints about illegal mining in the state, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed the Department of Geology and Mining to use technology on a large scale to effectively control illegal mining. According to an official, satellite monitoring will be used to watch over areas where illegal mining occurs, and vehicles ...

New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, has become the first city in the country to create an online data sharing platform to map all underground infrastructure either owned by the city or other utility operators. The platform will map buried pipes and cables that could save infrastructure organisations millions of dollars each year. The platform aims to ...

Hurricane Beryl had pummeled Southeast Texas on Monday, leaving millions in the Houston area without power. But with technical issues plaguing the tracker for the city’s main energy provider, there was no way to check the status of power outages — or find the still-lit pockets where residents could buy food, gas and other necessities. ...

Most people interact with maps regularly, for example, when they’re trying to get from point A to point B, track the weather or plan a trip. But, beyond those daily activities, maps are also increasingly being combined with artificial intelligence to create powerful tools for urban modeling, navigation systems, natural hazard forecasting and response, climate ...

“Speed kills” is such a well-known mantra in transportation advocacy circles it’s at risk of becoming trite. So how can activists find new ways to communicate the crucial linkage between speeding drivers and the fatal crashes they cause? One answer to that question comes from a project by Portland Community College Student Jake Veto. Veto ...

CARTO, the cloud-native spatial analysis platform, today announced the launch of CARTO AI Agents in private preview, the industry-leading AI tool that combines geospatial technology with AI. AI Agents enable decision-makers to address vital spatial questions quickly, democratizing access to spatial analytics and driving improved decision-making. The introduction of AI Agents aligns with the release ...

Along with providing stable navigation services worldwide, the Beidou global satellite navigation system developed by China has been monitoring the deformation of Lake Sarez in the seismically active zone of the Pamir Plateau in eastern Tajikistan for nearly three years, predicting potential earthquakes. “Forty donkeys, 10 scientists and 30 others spent 10 days transporting the ...

Felt has introduced Felt 3.0, which includes new features and native database integrations to improve Geographic Information Systems (GIS) capabilities. The goal of Felt 3.0 is to make data more accessible and actionable for stakeholders. It provides modern GIS tools for teams to visualize, analyze and present important insights and map data relevant to their ...

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Airlangga Hartarto, informed that the government is preparing a White Paper One Map Policy Beyond 2024, a document for the continuation of the One Map Policy, for the next government. “Based on the strategic value and usefulness of the One Map Policy, a White Paper One Map Policy Beyond 2024 ...

Google Maps is one of the most widely used navigation apps in the world, with 60 million active users in India alone as of 2023, according to Miriam Daniel, Vice President and Head of Google Maps. The web mapping platform introduces new features and improvements to existing ones on a regular basis, helping solo travellers ...

Turkmenistan is currently in the process of establishing a comprehensive land administration system, which includes both a cadastre and a land registration system. Since 1990, the official land statistics of Turkmenistan have shown minimal individualization. This is largely due to the fact that former collective farms still list land now held in family leaseholds as ...

Japan’s new H3 rocket flew for the third time ever tonight (June 30). The H3 launched the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 (ALOS-4; also known as DAICHI-4) from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center tonight, rising off the pad at 11:06 p.m. EDT (0306 GMT and 12:06 p.m. Japan Standard Time on July 1). ALOS-4 was deployed into ...

ESA’s new Φsat-2 mission, launching in the coming weeks, will push the boundaries of AI for Earth observation – demonstrating the transformative potential of AI for space technology. The integration of AI has significantly enhanced Earth observation. AI capabilities allow for more data to be processed quickly and accurately, helping to enable to transform vast ...

Forests in Galicia, northwestern Spain, are frequently ravaged by wildfires, leading to significant environmental and economic damage. The increasing virulence of these fires, exacerbated by climate change, poses a heightened risk to both natural landscapes and human populations. Traditional forestry methods to mitigate these fires are costly, prompting the exploration of alternative measures. One such ...

Mangroves are crucial for biodiversity, climate change mitigation, and coastal protection but face threats from climate change and human activities. Traditional monitoring methods fall short in accurately capturing their complex features. The integration of advanced machine learning algorithms with multisource remote sensing data offers a promising solution. Based on these challenges, it is essential to ...

An interactive map created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rates each ZIP code in the mainland U.S. to identify areas “most likely to experience negative health outcomes from heat.” But CDC’s Heat and Health Index shows that heat risk is about much more than temperatures. Heat vulnerability varies sharply within cities and ...

The Canadian government has launched a new interactive online map pinpointing the location of residential schools, and experts say it will help in the search for unmarked or forgotten graves of children forced to go to the institutions. Many residential school buildings have been torn down, paved or built over since the first one opened ...

Morocco and Turkey have signed two crucial agreements covering energy, earth sciences, and mining. The agreements were signed on Thursday in Rabat between Morocco’s Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development Leila Benali and Alparslan Bayraktar, Turkey’s Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources. These agreements include collaboration in renewable energies, green hydrogen, energy efficiency, electricity ...

Tunisia has expressed interest in implementing Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping for laboratory functions among North African countries. This initiative aims to create detailed visual representations of laboratory capacities and capabilities across the country. The candidacy emerged during Africa CDC’s first meeting on GIS mapping for public health with seven North African countries, which included ...

Hydrosat, the climate tech company leveraging thermal imagery to measure water stress in agriculture and mitigate the effects of climate change, announced the upcoming launch of its first satellite, VanZyl-1, scheduled for early July on SpaceX’s Transporter-11. This satellite will showcase Hydrosat’s proprietary, first-of-its-kind custom imagers, to accelerate the delivery of global high-resolution thermal imaging ...

Türkiye will boost its earth observation capabilities with a soon-to-be-launched series of new satellites. Minister of Industry and Technology, Mehmet Fatih Kacir, told Anadolu that the new and indigenous Imece satellite project, consisting of two new satellite series, will be commissioned within four years. “A significant part of our country’s high-resolution Earth observation needs will ...

Hundreds of monumental stone heads dot the coastline of the remote Pacific island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island. Settled by a small group of Polynesian seafarers about 900 years ago, it’s a fascinating place that has been the subject of fierce debate about how complex societies can sometimes ruinously fail. Some experts, such as ...

As you sip a cup of tea, particularly tea from east China’s Fujian Province, two remote sensing satellites in orbit are monitoring the tea planting and maintenance. The two satellites, both launched in 2022, can obtain the images with a resolution higher than 0.5 meters and a width of 15 km. They serve the tea-producing ...

Researchers at University of Limerick have created a new digital heritage resource centred on the early years of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland. Marking two-hundred years since the beginnings of the first Ordnance Survey of Ireland, the ‘OS200—Digitally Re-Mapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage’ project gathered historic Ordnance Survey (OS) maps and texts, held in disparate ...

Saudi Arabia launched the Geographic Survey Project for Renewable Energy sites, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). The Kingdom awarded contracts to Saudi companies to install 1,200 stations for measuring solar and wind energy across all regions of the country. Saudi Minister of Energy Prince AbdulAziz bin Salman bin AbdulAziz Al Saud stated that ...

Researchers at the University of Southampton have conducted the most detailed spatial analysis to date of storm surges along the coast of the UK and Ireland. The oceanographers found that coastlines in the north of the Irish Sea experience the longest and largest surges, while those occurring around the southwest coast of England have the ...

The impacts of climate change are being felt all over the world, but how will it impact how your hometown feels? An interactive web application from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science allows users to search 40,581 places and 5,323 metro areas around the globe to match the expected future climate in each ...

Un estudio liderado por el Centro de Investigación PEGASO de la Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) advierte de la “emergente necesidad” de identificar medidas preventivas que ayuden a garantizar la conservación de los edificios patrimoniales y a mejorar la gestión turística de dichos inmuebles y de los centros históricos de las ciudades. Realizado en el ...