UN launches Biodiversity Lab 2.0 spatial data platform
The UNBL 2.0 release responds to a global gap in the types of spatial data and tools, providing a resource to nations around the world.
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Project control strategies for high accuracy drone mapping
Project control is a topic near and dear to anyone doing high accuracy mapping – project control. While this article won’t be giving you specific answers about how much and where to place control, it will provide you with useful guidelines.
Considerations when choosing a drone provider for AEC projects
Drones have become popular among contractors and building managers for construction inspection, land surveying, aerial asset inspection and similar applications. When choosing a drone provider, there are important considerations to bear in mind.
Combining Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-5P imagery for high-resolution methane emissions mapping and source attribution
Until recently, no straightforward solution has existed to detect individual methane emissions and track them back to their original sources. Now, scientists from Kayrros have developed a tool that can accurately detect individual methane emissions by combining Sentinel-5P and Sentinel-2 data.
LandsatLook 2.0 lets Landsat users take advantage of cloud-based systems
USGS’s LandsatLook 2.0 Viewer makes it easier and faster to access earth imagery and simpler to analyse data in cloud-based systems.
A new map of agricultural land in Africa builds towards a soil information system
Soils4Africa released a map of agricultural land of continental Africa, which forms the basis for the selection of the 20 000 sites where the project will collect soil samples.
Giga and Mapbox join forces with mapping gaming to locate schools across the globe
To accelerate the mapping of schools globally, Giga and Mapbox created The Mapping Game, a crowdsourced app to identify schools using satellite imagery.
Global mineral data portal unveiled by international partnership
Access more than 10 000 mineral samples from Australia, Canada and the United States, all categorised along a deposit classification scheme and available through a new web portal.
How statistical analyses help determine where and when students are most vulnerable to education disruption
To identify countries where girls are most at risk of experiencing educational interruptions and predict lowering completion rates of girls’ primary and secondary education due to climate change, the Malala Fund has partnered with SAS to build the Girls’ Education and Climate Challenges Index.
Using low-cost dual-frequency GNSS modules for cadastral mapping in Tanzania
Poor people can rarely obtain land rights. By bringing communities together and using an affordable dual-frequency receivers, this could change.