The first global dataset showing the boundaries of agricultural fields was released in late April, after an 18-month campaign by geospatial experts in industry and academia. The initiative, led by the ...

Educators and researchers are using antique and historical maps to reveal how places have changed and to make history lessons more engaging. From digitizing detailed fire insurance atlases to ...

A recent report by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), authored by Niranga Alahacoon, Sahana V., and Giriraj ...

The field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) has seen significant advancements in recent years, particularly in the context of monitoring regional hydrology, ecology, and ...

Python’s geospatial ecosystem, led by GeoPandas, makes mapping, analyzing, and visualizing location-based data intuitive and powerful. From environmental studies to urban planning, these tools reveal ...

Environmental journalists are pairing satellite imagery and machine learning to expose illegal mining across the Amazon.

MathWorks announced Release 2026a (R2026a) of the MATLAB® and Simulink® product families today, introducing new AI capabilities for embedded systems development. R2026a introduces Simulink® Copilot to ...

Surveying and spatial job openings, recent senior appointments, and multiple geospatial and geoscience events.

This repository hosts the material for the workshops entitled "Interactive (geospatial) data analysis at HPC scales with RS-DAT and Python" taught at NAC 2026 in Noordwijk on 09-04-2026 and 10-04-2026 ...

Geospatial Insight, a cloud-based risk and climate intelligence provider, has launched FireWatch, a wildfire prediction and monitoring platform built to combine live satellite analysis, environmental ...

Exclusive: Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players. Pokémon Go was the world’s first augmented-reality megahit. Released ...

A new study of the 28 most populous U.S. cities finds that all are sinking to one degree or another. The cities include not just those on the coasts, where relative sea level is a concern, but many in ...