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India’s aviation sector has marked a significant milestone with the launch of the country’s first AI-powered airport digital twin at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad. Developed by GMR Airports, this transformative platform is complemented by the newly introduced next-generation Airport Predictive Operation Centre (APOC), setting new benchmarks in airport management, operational efficiency, and passenger satisfaction. ...

Less than a week after its launch, the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite has delivered its inaugural radar images of Earth. Three stunning images captured by the satellite, showcasing diverse landscapes across the European continent, have been released by the European Space Agency (ESA). They highlight the satellite’s potential for advanced environmental monitoring. Launched aboard a Vega-C ...

Whether you want to start growing your own food, join a community garden or find locally owned and grown food, an Ypsilanti-based nonprofit wants to help. The nonprofit Growing Hope recently launched an interactive map of community gardens, farms, locally owned grocery stores, food pantries and places to borrow or get free seeds, tools and other growing ...

CATALYST, a PCI Geomatics Enterprise Inc. brand has announced that its CATALYST Professional, CATALYST Enterprise, and CATALYST OnBoard software now support imagery from Maxar’s WorldView Legion, the latest ultra-high-resolution Earth observation satellite constellation. This significant development enables CATALYST users to harness the exceptional clarity of WorldView Legion’s 30 cm-class data for precise analysis and decision-making ...

At Goddard Space Flight Center, the GSFC Data Science Group has completed the testing for their SatVision Top-of-Atmosphere (TOA) Foundation Model, a geospatial foundation model for coarse-resolution all-sky remote sensing imagery. The team, comprised of Mark Carroll, Caleb Spradlin, Jordan Caraballo-Vega, Jian Li, Jie Gong, and Paul Montesano, has now released their model for wide ...

With support from the European Space Agency (ESA), Switzerland-based Luxtelligence has demonstrated prototyping capabilities in a novel photonic platform. The platform is based on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN), suited for the development of high-speed electro-optic modulators. Such modulators could, in turn, be used in positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) technologies. Speaking at the ESA-hosted final presentation ...

A NEW interactive map highlighting information about publicly-owned land across Scotland has been created. The new resource – which can be found HERE – also allows people to see the land managed by the Scottish Crown Estate. Users can explore information on individual land parcels, including its ownership and size. The information has been brought together as ...

In many Asian regions, especially in China, agricultural fields are typically small, scattered, and lack clear boundaries, which complicates effective crop distribution and agricultural analysis using remote sensing technology. Now, a research group from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has addressed this challenge with a novel dual-branch deep learning model ...

Experts from Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) have recently conducted work in Antarctica that will, amongst other things, help scientists monitor the effects of climate change. The hydrographic, surveying and positioning team members undertook a range of activities aimed at maintaining the flow of key data, for which precise annual recalibration is ...

The Alberta Geological Survey (AGS) has published the Geothermal Atlas of Albeta, a public, web-based geographic information system (GIS) application that provides geoscience data and information relevant to the assessment deep geothermal energy potential in Alberta, Canada. The Geothermal Atlas of Alberta can be accessed via this link. The tool is designed to support the exploration and development of geothermal ...

A new, up-to-date thermal map of Brno has just been released, the result of a collaborative project between the City of Brno and the Czech Globe agency (part of the Czech Academy of Sciences). Aerial photography for the project took place during the summer. “The city has been cooperating with scientific organizations on surface imaging ...

A new, freely available and open-source app that uses aerial survey data to map and identify wild animals, has been launched by researchers from Edith Cowan University. The app is intended to help researchers and community groups across the world to conduct wildlife imagery surveys. Known as WISDAM — Wildlife Image Survey Detection and Mapping — the ...

The Earth is large and always changing. Throughout history we’ve used maps to visualize our planet, and everyone has used Google Maps to get from Point A to B.  Researchers at the University of Calgary are raising the bar even further than Google, developing a software system that can do more than just visualize the ...

Forest ecosystems of the future will have to cope with very different conditions to those of today. For this reason, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) state that a strategic approach to forest management is crucial. To this end, the research team has developed iLand: a simulation model that can compute long-term developments ...

Skykraft, an Australian company, has signed a Participating Project Partner Agreement for the “Demonstration of Collaborative Position Navigation and Timing (PNT) in Low Earth Orbit (LEO)” project. This agreement, supported by an International Space Investment (ISI) India Projects grant from the Australian Government, will promote joint space projects between Australia and India. The primary goal ...

Many recent studies assume that elderly people are at particular risk of dying from extreme heat as the planet warms. A new study of mortality in Mexico turns this assumption on its head: it shows that 75% of heat-related deaths are occurring among people under 35―a large percentage of them ages 18 to 35, or ...

The Nature Conservancy and UC Santa Barbara release the first comprehensive maps of coconut agriculture, and the subsequent loss of native forests, on atolls throughout the tropical Pacific. Over the last 200 years, this pervasive land cover change has profoundly altered ecosystems and hydrologic resources, potentially affecting atoll communities’ resilience to climate change and other environmental ...

Arizona State University and St. Mary’s Food Bank (SMFB) have joined forces to create an interactive data dashboard that tracks and maps food insecurity rates across Arizona. This innovative tool aims to analyze patterns, provide critical insights and optimize resource allocation to address disparities in food access. By combining ASU’s research expertise with SMFB’s decades of community ...

The Kenya Space Agency (KSA) Director General Brig. Hillary Kipkosgei hosted an executive delegation from Expertise France, led by its Director General, Jeremy Pellet. During this meeting, the two leaders signed a landmark cooperation agreement aimed at fostering greater synergy in space-related collaborations. KSA, a state corporation mandated to promote, coordinate, and regulate space activities ...

On Thursday December 5, 2024, the Vega C launcher (VV25 mission) lifted-off from the Guiana Space Center, French Guiana, at 6:20 pm local time (9:20 p.m. UTC, 10:20 p.m. CET). Vega C successfully placed the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite into Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) at an altitude of 700 km. Spacecraft separation occurred 1 hour and 43 minutes ...

Humans are leaving consistent patterns in forest disturbance structures across the world, according to a new study from the University of Leicester, the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) and the University of Birmingham, based on remote sensing data. Forests play a critical role in maintaining biodiversity, regulating the climate, and supporting ecosystems. However, disturbances ...

The Sun’ll come out tomorrow, and you no longer have to bet your bottom dollar to be sure of it. Google’s DeepMind team released its latest weather prediction model this week, which outperforms a leading traditional weather prediction model across the vast majority of tests put before it. The generative AI model is dubbed GenCast, and it ...

In response to the rising threat of GPS jamming in drone warfare, researchers at the University of South Australia (UniSA) have pioneered a celestial navigation system that uses star-based visual data as an alternative to the global positioning system. Combining celestial navigation with vision-based technology, UniSA’s remote sensing engineers have created a lightweight, cost-effective system ...

A nearly three-century-old map that helped the Philippines win its territorial dispute against China was formally received at the Malacañang Palace on Friday, December 6, with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. hailing it as a historic document that has “defined the Philippines.”   The Murillo Velarde map of 1734 — officially titled “Carta Hydro-graphica y Choro-graphica ...

On a crystal-clear afternoon above a desert ghost town, a NASA aircraft scoured the ground for minerals. The plane, a high-altitude ER-2 research aircraft, had taken off early that morning from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Below pilot Dean Neeley, the landscape looked barren and brown. But to the optical sensors installed on the ...

The Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Ministry has refuted reports claiming that tradesmen and shopkeepers will be required to pay a “map license fee” for sharing map or location data. In a statement issued on Dec. 5, the ministry clarified that the proposed changes to the Law on Geographical Information Systems do not apply to small business owners. It ...

Marine heatwaves are becoming more frequent in a warming world, as rising ocean temperatures trigger these mysterious and damaging phenomena. The profound effects of marine heatwaves on ecosystems – from coral bleaching to disruptions in biodiversity – explain why scientists believe great urgency is required to understand their development and longevity. As we grapple with the challenges of climate change, ...

An interactive high-resolution dataset has been released to the public, showing the active faults running through New Zealand. The data set, made available by GNS Science, shows the locations of faults that have broken or deformed the surface in the last 125,000 years. Scientists made the information available in a bid to help further research, hazard assessment, ...

Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has reopened its doors five years after the devastating fire, showcasing its restored interior after extensive rebuilding work. The restoration, costing approximately €700 million ($737 million), was financed entirely by donations from around the world.  On April 15, 2019, Notre Dame went up in flames, with the spire collapsing and ...

In a unique initiative, the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has launched the GIS-based Road Asset Management System (RAMS) to overhaul the city’s road maintenance and management process. The initiative addresses critical challenges that have plagued urban road management for years, including the absence of centralised data, inefficient resource allocation, and ad-hoc repair decisions. Furthermore, road ...