The Meteosat third generation imager delivered imagery of Europe and Africa from 36,000 kilometers away (22,369 mi.). Credit: ...

From imaging every point on the planet daily to leveraging AI and hyperspectral data, Ashley unpacks Planet’s mission to make ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator is renowned not only as a flight experience but also for creating one of the most realistic digital maps of the entire planet. The journey began decades ago, long before ...

Bridges to Prosperity is using AI to map rural communities and waterways. Its two AI programs help identify locations that ...

NASA’s SWOT satellite reveals how small ocean features move heat and nutrients, reshaping climate and circulation models.

A team has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming world.

Here Technologies, the world's leading digital map provider, is adapting its 40-year old service for a new age.

The Biomass satellite will measure the trunks, branches and stems of the trees that populate the planet's forests. ESA says these measurements will serve as a proxy for determining carbon storage, ...

A satellite with a 40-foot extendable antenna has launched into space with a giant mission: to map all of the world’s forests — ecosystems that are crucial for absorbing carbon and slowing ...

From its orbit at an altitude of 666 kilometres, the satellite will continuously produce global maps, enabling climate scientists to monitor changes and developments in the world’s forests.

These annual maps will not only detail carbon storage, but also track deforestation rates, even in cloud-covered tropical regions where traditional satellite imagery struggles. Professor John Remedios ...

A satellite conceived at the University of Sheffield and ... Credit: ESA-CNES-ARIANESPACE/Optique vidéo du CSG–T. Leduc World’s first mission to map the globe’s forests in 3D from space will use ...