GIS

A Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais (CPRM) lançou um mapa interativo que permite visualizar áreas com risco de desastre no Brasil. Nesse sistema, é possível localizar informações sobre áreas com alto e muito alto risco de deslizamentos de terra, inundações, enxurradas e queda de rochas em mais de 1.600 municípios brasileiros. A plataforma interativa ...

NASA’s “Wildfire Digital Twin” project will equip firefighters and wildfire managers with a superior tool for monitoring wildfires and predicting harmful air pollution events and help researchers observe global wildfire trends more precisely. The tool, developed with funding from NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office and NASA’s FireSense Program, will use artificial intelligence and machine learning ...

On the 24th and 25th of April 2024, the MSPglobal 2.0 initiative facilitated an online workshop to consult experts on ocean data and Spatial Data Infrastructure. The project aims to co-develop a Data Toolbox to support countries in developing their own SDI for MSP. About 30 participants from across the globe joined the sessions to ...

The National Center for Vegetation Development and Combating Desertification (NCVC) has completed a significant step in its fight against desertification: the first phase of a project to assess the state of land degradation across the Kingdom, which resulted in the creation of 246 detailed maps. These maps provide valuable insight into desertification trends and the ...

University of Liverpool researchers have been awarded funding from Smart Data Research UK (SDR UK) for a new project that aims to quantify and adjust existing biases in smart data on human mobility. Called DEBIAS, the project is led by Professor Francisco Rowe, who specialises in population data science with specific expertise in human mobility, ...

Climate change stands as one of the most pressing challenges confronting global ecosystems and human livelihoods. The agriculture sector of Anuradhapura district, Sri Lanka, well renowned for its pivotal role in the nation’s food production, faces an increasing threat from the changing climate. A recent study by Millennium City aims to incorporate the indicator system ...

At its annual Google I/O 2024 conference, Google announced that users will soon be able to access geospatial augmented reality (AR) content directly on Google Maps on their phones. The feature will first appear in Singapore and Paris as part of a pilot program launching later this year. Users will be able to access the ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced an investment of A$566-million over the next decade to bolster geoscientific research across the nation. The Geoscience Australia-led initiative, welcomed by industry bodies such as the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) and the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (Amec), aims to unlock the vast potential of Australia’s ...

Das Projekt DERLA macht Erinnerungsorte und -zeichen an die Opfer und Orte des Terrors des Nationalsozialismus in Österreich sichtbar. Die digitale Plattform bietet selbstgeführte, aufbereitete Rundgänge zu diesen Orten an und bietet direkt auf der Seite didaktische Hilfestellung zur Nutzung der Webseite. Vor allem Pädagoginnen und Pädagogen sollen von der Webseite profitieren: So sind hier ...

The Town of The Blue Mountains will soon have its own online and interactive Cultural Map. For the past several months, the town’s museum staff and the town’s GIS department have been working together on the cultural mapping project. Together, they are creating a comprehensive record of the cultural, natural and intangible features that define ...

A West Yorkshire hospital has become the first in the UK to use new geospatial software to help pinpoint high-risk crumbling concrete panels. More than 80% of floors, walls and ceilings at the Airedale Hospital, in Keighley, are made of Raac, or reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, which has a lifespan of about 30 years. Though ...

Germany’s Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) will continue to manage production of pan-European datasets after signing a new agreement with EuroGeographics. As a result, BKG is responsible for three open datasets available via the Open Maps For Europe (OME) user interface, as well as a database of administrative boundaries and 1:250 000 topographic ...

The UK government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Ontario, Canada, to share knowledge and technology related to creating digital maps of underground infrastructure. The agreement was signed by Viscount Camrose, Minister for Intellectual Property, and Kinga Surma, Minister of Infrastructure with the Government of Ontario. The MoU outlines a ...

EarthSense, today announced a partnership with GISCAD, a Portugal-based geomatics and civil engineering solutions company, to bring its air quality monitoring solutions and services to Portugal, Angola and Mozambique. GISCAD provides a range of advanced technology equipment, software and technical support to its clients in the geomatics, engineering, construction and architecture sectors. Its partnership with ...

The University of Florida’s Center for Landscape Conservation Planning (CLCP) and GeoPlan Center have developed two new tools to support land protection decisions in Florida – a web map viewer and web-based dashboard for the Florida Ecological Greenway Network (FEGN). The FEGN is a statewide database that identifies and prioritizes a functionally connected statewide ecological ...

One natural strategy to reduce heat-related deaths is to increase tree coverage in urban areas, which helps lower temperatures. A recent study highlights the disparities in health and energy consumption across the United States, stemming from insufficient urban tree coverage. It also details the potential health and economic advantages that increased tree presence can offer ...

Kia India on Thursday said it has tied up with Map My India to offer navigation solutions to its customers nationwide. The platform’s four-wheeler-specific points of interest search, spanning over 450 categories, enables easy discovery of vital services like dealerships and service centres, fuel stations, hospitals, hotels, restaurants, and more, the automaker said in a ...

AWS recently announced the availability of the Internet Weather Map, a new feature of CloudWatch that displays a 24-hour global snapshot of internet latency and availability outages. This new map offers a worldwide perspective on Internet conditions, allowing users to zoom in and analyze performance and availability problems in specific cities or with particular service ...

Based in Atlanta, the Ray is a nonprofit that sets ambitious environmental goals. Primarily, it aims to build net-zero highways, beginning with an 18-mile stretch of Interstate-85 located in west Georgia. One of the ways it plans on doing so is with right-of-way solar panels, a means of generating solar power that is built upon ...

The Chornobyl Radiation-Ecological Biosphere Reserve has launched a geoportal with information on 38 years of activity of various departments on the territory of the exclusion zone: from research and education to accounting for land, forest and water resources, reported the Chornobyl Reserve. “Here you will find a map of modern, anthropogenic landscapes of the territory, ...

Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, in its partnership with Impact Observatory, has released an updated global land-use/land-cover map of the world based on the most up-to-date 10-meter Sentinel-2 satellite data. In the update, the Sentinel-2 10m Land Use/Land Cover Time Series includes new data from 2023, expanding the series to include global coverage ...

A Danish company, NaviBlind ApS, develops products that help blind and visually impaired people get around outdoors, enabling them to orient themselves and navigate in new and changing urban environments. The NaviBlind solution comprises a smartphone application and a wearable GNSS device, which together eliminate some of the challenges around exploring and remembering new routes. ...

Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) has been undertaking deep-water hydrographic and geophysical survey operations in Irish waters since 1996 and aims to complete Ireland’s seabed mapping by 2026. GSI’s Integrated Mapping for the Sustainable Development of Ireland’s Marine Resource (INFOMAR) project has been mapping Ireland’s seabed in comprehensive detail, providing data for navigation charts to improve ...

Singapore has launched its new Geospatial Master Plan (2024–33), the second iteration of the island state’s 10-year geospatial strategy. Led by the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), the Master Plan aims to “enable geospatial-enabled innovations to benefit more segments of society, while addressing the complex challenges Singapore ...

La Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares (APB) ha incorporado tecnología geoespacial para gestionar «de manera más eficiente» la información sobre sus infraestructuras y operaciones portuarias en en tiempo real. No en vano, las Islas lideran el ránking nacional de escalas con más de 50.000 entradas y salidas de ferries, barcos de mercancías y cruceros. A todo ...

A new app featuring more than 10,000 aerial photos from London and surrounding counties shows what the region looked like from the air in the last 100 years. Developed by Eunice Chu, a fourth-year geographic information systems (GIS) student who works as a student library assistant at the Map and Data Centre at Western University’s ...

A group of 63 doctors filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court on Thursday against Google seeking ¥1.45 million (about $9,400) in compensation for causing harm to their businesses through what they described as one-sided, hateful reviews for their clinics on Google Maps. The suit is the first in Japan — and possibly the ...

Bangladesh is preparing to introduce remote sensing and drones to detect crop damage caused by extreme weather events or diseases. Around 20 officers of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) are initially receiving training to learn how to use the state-of-the-art technologies. Malay Choudhury, additional secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, and Edimon Ginting, ADB Country Director ...

The Overture Maps Foundation today launched the first beta of its global open map dataset. With this, the foundation, which is backed by the likes of Amazon, Esri, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, is getting one step closer to launching a production-ready open dataset for developers who need geospatial data to power their applications. “This Beta ...

The Brazilian geological survey department, SGB, launched a public consultation to improve the country’s geological mapping system for the mining sector. The public consultation will be open until June 15. “This action is part of the 10-year basic geological mapping plan (PlanGeo) and is aimed at receiving proposals from the mining sector and civil society ...