Chennai’s Heat Island Doubled in Fifteen Years as Concrete Swallowed Green Space
A two-decade satellite and machine learning study shows Chennai's urban heat island intensity doubled as built-up area surged by more ...
Tag: remote sensing
New QGIS Plugin Brings NASA’s Space Laser Forest Data to Everyone
An open-source QGIS plugin called GEDIMetrics now automates the discovery, filtering, and fusion of NASA's GEDI spaceborne LiDAR products, making ...
Mapping Two Decades of Research on How City Shape Drives Urban Heat
A new bibliometric review of 1,000 papers published between 2005 and 2024 maps how research on urban morphology and the ...
Satellite Rain Maps Put to the Test Over a Flood-Prone Tropical Island
A two-year validation study in Trinidad's Northern Range shows that the IMERG satellite product detects far more rainfall events and ...
Satellites and Household Surveys Pinpoint Kerala’s Most Dangerous Flood Zones
A GIS and Analytic Hierarchy Process study of Pozhuthana Grama Panchayath in Kerala's Wayanad district has produced a flood hazard ...
AI Maps Where Fire and Habitat Loss Threaten the World’s Largest Lizard
A new machine-learning study maps Komodo dragon habitat suitability and wildfire risk across Komodo National Park, revealing that five percent ...
Satellites and Machine Learning Map Soil Erosion Hotspots in a Drought-Hit Indian River Basin
A new RUSLE-GIS study maps soil erosion across India's drought-prone Jonk River Basin with 97 percent accuracy, identifying steep, unprotected ...
Himalayan Glaciers Are Slowing Down and Shrinking, Thirty-Year Study of Ladakh’s Doda Basin Reveals
A three-decade satellite and field assessment shows glaciers in Ladakh's Doda sub-basin losing area, thinning rapidly and decelerating, with lake-terminating ...
Attention-Powered AI Reads Landsat 9 to Map Soil Carbon With New Precision
Chinese researchers have developed an attention-based stacking ensemble that reads Landsat 9 imagery to predict soil organic carbon more accurately ...
Sulawesi Is Losing Its Water-Regulating Landscapes, Satellite Record Shows
A 32-year spatial analysis shows that high water regulation capacity on Sulawesi Island fell from 59.5 percent of the land ...
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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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