Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...

A new satellite has mapped Earth's ocean floors in unprecedented detail, a new study reveals. . The first year of measurements from NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, ...

Scientists using satellite data have now created the most detailed maps ever produced of the vast snow-covered Antarctic continent. The maps reveal unprecedented views of surface features that provide ...

Scientists in Germany have, for the first time, created the most comprehensive digital representation of the world’s man-made ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed. When you purchase through links on ...

An example of 3D mapping produced by LiDAR. Image credit: Nuview. Clouds and darkness: These are the two challenges that bedevil every Earth observation (EO) satellite that relies on visible light ...

In the quest to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, detecting methane leaks – a potent contributor to global warming – has become increasingly vital. Researchers are harnessing ...

Led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the EU North State project has developed a new method of using satellite images to evaluate the forest carbon balance. The carbon balance indicates how ...

Satellites are transforming climate adaptation by offering global, long-term data that reveals whether resilience efforts are truly working.

"By combining space technology with state-of-the-art machine learning, we mapped undisclosed industrial activity at sea on a scale never done before." When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Google is joining a big initiative to track methane emissions from space. Google is joining a big initiative to track methane emissions from space. is a senior science reporter covering energy and the ...