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

A research team led by the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with multiple ...

The state Office of Planning’s Coastal Zone Management Program (OP-CZM) is developing comprehensive high-resolution Tsunami Design Zone (TDZ) maps for the Island of Oahu. These new high-resolution ...

Antarctica has become the best-mapped continent on Earth with a new high-resolution terrain map showing the ice-covered landmass in unprecedented detail. The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica ...

The majority of the map was stitched together using a feature-matching algorithm that aligned adjacent images and blended overlapping areas, to form a seamless global map. That said, about 13,000 of ...

A team of researchers has released four more years of high-resolution imagery data, which has been added to eight years of previous data, to create the most detailed polar region terrain maps ever ...

Researchers at the University of Isfahan in Iran claim to have improved the precision of digital elevation models (DEMs) in creating high-resolution annual solar energy potential maps. DEMs are 3D ...

High-resolution maps of carbon emissions have revealed how our day-to-day patterns of behaviour, such as commuting, affect the release of greenhouse gases, and could help governments quickly see the ...

We’ve seen a lot of good maps of Earth’s polar regions of late. A map that shows the thickness of the entire Antarctic ice sheet. Another that shows Greenland’s hidden bedrock contours in ...

South Korea is nearing a decision on whether to allow Google and Apple to export high-resolution geographic map data to servers outside the country. The detailed maps, which use a 1:5,000 scale, would ...