Hurricane Ian left an extraordinarily broad path of destruction across much of South Florida. That was evident in reports from the ground, but it also shows up in satellite data. Using a new method, ...

A database of 2.75 billion buildings could help scientists to monitor urban planning, climate change, disaster risks and even ...

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A federal program that uses military satellites to track wildfires is particularly useful when aircraft are grounded, as ...

Satellite data and artificial intelligence, researchers have mapped two crucial forest fire risk indicators—canopy base height (CBH) and canopy bulk density (CBD)—with an impressive resolution of 100 ...

In the fast-moving war over localized search, Google wasted no time on Monday responding to Microsoft MSN's Virtual Earth test site with a new "hybrid" site of its own that lets people see an aerial ...

Maps of Antarctica date back to when Roman geographer and astronomer Ptolemy envisioned a land in the southern hemisphere to counterbalance that in the north to satisfy an ancient sense of proportion.

On Feb. 6, the United Nations Satellite Center (UNOSAT) announced via Twitter that it had activated emergency mapping services of Turkiye and northern Syria after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit ...

With Congressional approval of $17 billion in infrastructure funding, the largest single allocation ever, the scramble to win contracts is about to get red hot and AEC firms are gearing up. In this ...

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