Kano’s Seven-Decade Urban Explosion: How Roads Reshaped an Ancient Nigerian City
A seven-decade geospatial analysis shows Kano's built-up area grew nearly thirteenfold between 1950 and 2020, with transportation corridors, not formal ...
Tag: remote sensing
Trees Quietly Return to Afghanistan’s Farmland While Forests Keep Vanishing
High-resolution satellite imagery reveals that tree cover on farmland in four districts of eastern Afghanistan expanded by about 36 percent ...
Hyperspectral Satellite Outperforms Classics in Mapping Urban Density Gradients
A three-sensor comparison over Lahore shows the PRISMA hyperspectral satellite dramatically improves classification of transitional urban-density classes, while confirming that ...
Thaw Slumps Overwhelm Greening in Tibet’s Sediment Surge
New research shows that tiny areas of abrupt permafrost thaw on the Tibetan Plateau deliver four times more sediment to ...
Hidden instability beneath the greening: satellites reveal fragile vegetation recovery in Yunnan’s alpine canyons
A 24-year satellite analysis of northwestern Yunnan reveals that apparent vegetation recovery conceals highly unstable growth trajectories, with rising human ...
Green Landscapes Emerge as a Double Weapon Against Smog and Carbon in China’s Coal Country
A new study of southern Shanxi shows that dense building development drives both winter smog and carbon emissions, while large, ...
AI Reads the Ocean’s Colors to Map 13 Phytoplankton Pigments From Space
A convolutional neural network trained on rigorous European in situ radiometry now retrieves 13 phytoplankton pigments from Sentinel-3 OLCI, with ...
Enviro-typing: the third pillar reshaping climate-resilient crop breeding
A new review argues that systematically measuring environmental factors, a practice called enviro-typing, can complement genotyping and phenotyping to accelerate ...
AI learns to read war damage from space with new satellite benchmark
A newly released benchmark called WD-CD compiles nearly ten thousand high-resolution satellite image pairs from five wars across three continents ...
Every Forest Has a Past: Why History Holds the Key to Saving Them
A new perspective in Ambio argues that understanding a forest's history through tree rings, pollen, maps, and oral testimony is ...
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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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