GIS

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The relationships between a population of people, their health outcomes, and their local contexts can be very complex. Nevertheless, developing an understanding of these population dynamics can be crucial for addressing complex social problems, such as disease, economic security, disaster response, and much more. Despite the importance, however, accurate predictions for these population dynamics have been elusive ...

Last month, the Government announced the establishment of the National Energy System Operator (NESO), a new publicly owned organisation aimed at bolstering energy security, reducing long-term energy costs and advancing the country’s clean power by 2030 agenda. The Nationgal Grid’s Electricity System Operator (ESO) has been transferred into public ownership as part of the new ...

Approximately 71 to 95 million people in the Lower 48 states—more than 20% of the country’s population—may rely on groundwater that contains detectable concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS, for their drinking water supplies. These findings are according to a U.S Geological Survey study published in the journal Science. The predictive ...

Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela, assistant professor of environmental studies, and a team of Colombian researchers have introduced a transformative approach to mapping bird species distribution across Colombia, harnessing community science data and innovative modeling techniques. Their latest study, published with open access in the journal Diversity and Distributions, presents high-resolution range and Area of Habitat (AOH) maps ...

A new atlas by human rights groups assessed tree cover and biodiversity hotspots on lands belonging to Afro-descendant peoples in 15 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), the Black Communities’ Process (PCN), the Universidad Javeriana’s Observatory for Ethnic and Peasant Territories (OTEC) and the National Coordination of Black ...

Tesla, Mobileye, Alibaba, and Didi have denied speculation that they have been involved in conducting illegal map-making activities after China’s top security agency said it found an incident of spying in which a foreign enterprise used a local company to collect sensitive map data. The unidentified international firm illegally conducted geographic mapping activities in the ...

The Nature Discovery Map Scotland (NDMS) is designed to engage and empower students to maximise their school grounds and improve them for nature and climate resilience. This interactive mapping toolkit has been co-designed with teachers to help support Learning for Sustainability (LfS). This versatile toolkit can be used in many ways and on many levels ...

As the world’s largest rice exporter and a crucial player in global food security, India has made impressive strides in agricultural productivity since the Green Revolution. However, a significant gap remains between the rice yields that farmers currently achieve and what they could potentially produce. A recent study published in Nature Communications titled “Context-dependent agricultural ...

In recent years, environmental justice researchers have uncovered wide disparities in exposure to toxic pollutants between people living in low-income neighborhoods and those living in wealthier communities. Much of the research has focused on air pollution emitted from factories, along with diesel truck and automobile exhaust from highways—which are generally situated far from high-income neighborhoods. ...

Learn how to use the City’s emergency map to quickly see how neighborhoods, including your own, may be directed to evacuate, shelter in place, or take other protective action. When possible, the City will also use the map to identify evacuation routes, road closures, shelters, or other critical information to guide you to your next ...

The U.S. Geological Survey has released a new nationwide landslide susceptibility map that indicates nearly 44% of the U.S. could potentially experience landslide activity. The new assessment provides a highly detailed, county-by-county picture of where these damaging, disruptive and potentially deadly geologic hazards are more likely as well as areas where landslide hazards are negligible. ...

Warm water in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico can fuel powerful hurricanes, but how destructive a storm becomes isn’t just about the climate and weather – it also depends on the people and property in harm’s way. In many coastal cities, fast population growth has left more people living in areas at high ...

The Oklahoma City Office of Sustainability’s first deep dive into digital mapping showed just how important spatial awareness can be—especially when it comes to extreme summer heat. For context, this state capital is similar in size to New York City at 621 square miles. But its population of about 750,000 is more spread out than ...

Los investigadores de la Universidad de Sevilla José Lázaro Amaro Mellado y Emilio Ramírez Juidias, en colaboración con el Laboratorio de Teledetección de la Universidad Tecnológica de Perú, han publicado un estudio que alerta sobre los efectos del cambio climático en las marismas de Doñana. Según los investigadores, el aumento de las temperaturas junto con ...

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources targets to increase the country’s forest cover by an additional three million hectares by 2028 as part of efforts to minimize the impact of climate change, DENR Secretary Maria Antonia Yulo Loyzaga revealed. “We have four targeted areas for reforestation, 1.2 million hectares that can be made available ...

A nearly 20-year effort to map the electrical properties of Earth’s crust and mantle across the contiguous United States, viewed as critical to protecting the electrical grid during extreme solar storms and against damage from electromagnetic pulses used as weapons, is now complete. The 3-D geoelectric map produced by researchers provides vital information to scientists, ...

North Macedonia’s distribution system operator Elektrodistribucija is probably the first in the Western Balkan region and beyond to produce an interactive map of free capacity for connecting solar power plants to the distribution grid. The interest among households, firms and investors all over the world in installing photovoltaic plants to become prosumers or suppliers is ...