If you look at satellite images of the world over just the last five years, some of the changes are striking: Massive swaths of forest burned in Australia, Russia, and California. In Egypt, urban ...

For many conservation decisions, the most contested question is also the most basic: what belongs on the map? A forest may ...

Accurate land cover mapping underpins biodiversity protection, climate adaptation, and sustainable land use. Despite advances in remote sensing, satellite-only approaches remain limited by cloud cover ...

Tropical regions host nearly half of the world’s remaining forests and supply a large share of global nutritional food and agricultural commodities.

Humans leave their "footprints" on the land area all around the globe. These land-use changes play an important role for nutrition, climate, and biodiversity. Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of ...

ASHEVILLE - Future dense development of up to 30 units per acre in Buncombe County will likely be centered around I-26, I-40, U.S. 70 and U.S. 74, while conservation efforts will focus on the outer ...

ISRO on Friday highlighted its collaboration with the Ministry of Panchayati Raj in advancing decentralised planning through geospatial technologies, saying it has completed high-resolution land use ...