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Promoting sustainability with efficient land management

How remote sensing helps us investigate extreme heat's effect on crop productivity

How do glaciers behave in a warming climate?

Where is geospatial health now - and where is it going?

Greenland’s unique underground potential for energy transitions and climate insights

How does geological remote sensing make mineral exploration and mining more effective?

Urban AI and Ways of Knowing

Fire hazard in informal settlements: should I stay or should I go?

A new way to map small-scale irrigation areas

How a geo-information app helps vegetable farmers to optimise inputs and boost productivity

12 decisions when designing maps for the Sustainable Development Goals

How NASA ARSET can get you started with satellite data

Obstacles to sustainable urbanisation in Ethiopia

Cities are Cloned in the Virtual World to Transform Urban Planning

Travelling back in time to understand the present and predict the future of our forests using remote sensing

Geospatial data and the Sustainable Development Goals

Where Dinosaurs lived: how geolocation supports palaeontological research

What are agent-based models?

Four popular sources of labelled data for machine learning

Enhancing Agricultural Monitoring with AI and satellite data: A Collaborative Training on Crop Type Mapping

Symbols on maps and graphs and why choosing them carefully matters

Digital twins can make mapping easier and more accurate

How geodata-based insurance can help smallholder farmers cope with weather risks

Impact and lessons learned from the GIACIS project

How scientists evaluate the accuracy of land cover maps

UAVs for Geophysical Survey

The role of water- and health-related local community knowledge and perceptions in decision-making

Ethics and disaster management

Improving land administration services in Ghana

Keeping things cool with digital twins

Why schools should have WASH – and teach it too

How camera traps benefit Javan leopards

Using UAV Technology to Fight Palm Tree Pests and Diseases

Are we running out of raw materials for the energy transition?

What is the Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature?

What is magic of institutionalising planning support systems?

Colour composites unraveled

Searching for Rare Earth Elements from space and how minerals made in the lab play a key role

FELA and the art of sustainable land administration

What is the social and mental health impact of flooding on older adults?

What is geospatial auditing of public funds?

Between climate planning and implementation: Closing the gap with a new database

Mapping Rainforest Water Use: A UAV-Based Approach to Evapotranspiration

What green do you need? How residents of less well-off urban areas see their environment

Predicting floods in real time

How deep learning and remote sensing can combine to promote 3D city modelling for digital twins

Making maptables more usable for collaborative planning

Water and health insecurity among urban homeless communities

Open spaces and why mapping them is crucial

Water, health and decisions: the impact of extreme weather

The Remote Sensing Data Labelling Challenge

The power of impact-based weather forecasting

Spatial autocorrelation and its importance in Earth observation

New routes to affordable land administration

The evolution of geological remote sensing in mining and mineral exploration

Drought peril insurance for smallholder farmers

Why we should read maps critically

Why do you not see what I see?

Unlocking Earth's Superhot Energy for green and sustainable power generation

Mapping the Future: 6 Aspects of New Exploration Technologies for Critical Minerals Discovery

Unveiling hydrothermal minerals at the Rodalquilar gold-alunite deposit with hyperspectral imaging

Cobalt: the chemical element that connects Vincent van Gogh, the energy transition, and mineral exploration using remote sensing

An army of egg-sized sensors to hatch a sustainable movement in Paramaribo

Gated communities and how they affect life quality

Creativity in Urban Planning

Supporting forest drought monitoring by developing ground-based sites

Improving road and traffic monitoring using drones and AI

Can we measure river discharge from space?

Using UAV-based thermal imagery to inspect and improve the energy efficiency of buildings

UAVs are revolutionising disaster resilience

Innovations for land rights mapping

The Energy Transition Explained

What is dynamic landslide susceptibility?

How can digital twins help the world?

How can digital twins help us to build sustainable cities?

Building a city digital twin: needs and challenges

3 examples of successful city digital twin applications

Preventing privacy disasters

Explainable AI in Natural Hazard Monitoring

How do UAVs help precision agriculture?

Establishing land rights by documenting land relations

What is overshoot day and why does it matter?

Mapping from high-resolution images and height data

How can explainable AI contribute to natural hazard prediction?

How climate change is affecting food security in arid regions

Five sensors that are used on smart agriculture UAVs

Six ways that drones can make farming smarter

SAR Tomography: How to reveal the diverse world beneath the forest canopy

Using drones to map forests and plantations

Five benefits of mangrove forests

What is eDNA?

What is Spatial Finance?

What is hidden hunger?

What is food security?

How water pollution affects shrimp farms

A New Solution for Digitizing Survey Plans

Dealing with the challenges of modern urbanization

Five new concepts of what cities should be

How GIS technology can help to keep growing cities sustainable

How to count travelers without tracking them between locations

From Paper to Pixel: The Challenge and Vision of Survey Plan Digitization

Five minerals that can help to save the planet from the carbon crisis (and natural kryptonite is one of them)

How a soil-plant digital twin can help predict and monitor our ecosystems for sustainable developments

Getting everything in place with the Matrix of Functions

Measuring the ways climate change can affect allergy season: methods and challenges

Opportunities and Challenges in using machine learning to model pollen data

Three ways that climate change can affect pollen emissions

Producing 3D Models for city Digital Twins

How can machine learning bias affect GIS applications?

What is participatory mapping?

Three dimensions to measure the impact of soil nutrients on the nutritional values of crops

6 Benefits of Using Drones for Civil Infrastructure Inspections

How many elephants? Ask a satellite

How do satellites work?

Species distribution modelling

Remote Sensing to assess protein content in wheat - the secret to a perfect slice of bread

How do LiDAR and radar Work?

Using hyperspectral remote sensing to predict droughts

Mapping Slums with UAVs

Climate Change as a Global Challenge