Satellites and Algorithms Race to Map the World’s Hidden Dryland Forests
A new study in Argentina's Monte desert shows that whether pixel-based or object-based satellite classification works best for detecting open ...
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Losing Water and Paving Cities Drive the Fastest Urban Heat Warming, Satellite Study Finds
A two-decade satellite analysis of 100 global cities shows that losing water bodies and expanding impervious surfaces amplify urban extreme ...
AI Maps Where Nepal’s Floods and Landslides Collide
A new machine learning study maps Nepal nationwide flood and landslide susceptibility and identifies thousands of square kilometres of connected ...
Hidden Map Errors Distort River Health Assessments Across Scales
A four-decade study in northern Spain shows that widely used land cover maps like CORINE and SIOSE introduce scale-dependent errors ...
Dhaka’s Heat Island Explodes as City Triples Its Built-Up Footprint Since 1990
A 34-year satellite analysis shows Dhaka's built-up area nearly tripling as vegetation and water vanished, driving 70 percent of the ...
Satellite Data Reveals Guwahati’s Surface Temperatures Climbed Nearly Four Degrees in Three Decades
A 30-year Landsat analysis shows Guwahati's mean land surface temperature rose from 28.27 to 32.07 degrees Celsius as urban expansion ...
AI Maps Three Decades of Urban Growth in Botswana’s Fast-Growing Capital
Using random forest classification of Landsat imagery and a TensorFlow 1D-convolutional neural network, researchers reconstructed 30 years of land cover ...
Satellites Reveal Three Decades of Ecological Ups and Downs in Rapidly Urbanizing Nepal
A 30-year satellite analysis of Nepal's Rupandehi District shows ecological quality improved overall despite a tenfold expansion of built-up area, ...
Satellites Reveal Two Opposing Pollution Seasons in Türkiye’s Farm Belt
A seven-year satellite study of Türkiye's Meriç-Ergene Basin shows organic water quality pressures peaking in spring and summer while sediment ...
Satellites, Lasers and Radar Join Forces to Weigh Ethiopia’s Forests
By fusing spaceborne LiDAR, radar and optical satellite data with field plots, researchers have produced high-resolution canopy height and biomass ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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