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Starting this month, you can be part of a project to create more detailed satellite-based global maps of land cover by sharing photos of the world around you in a new NASA citizen science project.
Today, it can feel as though the world map is set in stone. After all, the United Nations hasn’t recognized a new, sovereign nation since 2011, when South Sudan broke away from Sudan. But beneath the ...
Esri released a 2020 global land-cover map last year as well as a high-resolution 2050 global land-cover map, showing how earth's land surfaces might look 30 years from now.
In the fascinating world of geography, borders between countries are not just lines on a map; they are symbols of history, ...
Google and the World Resources Institute created Dynamic World, a near real-time land cover dataset built through deep learning to show what’s on the surface of the planet.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has maps of major world forests. ... (or 9.6 billion acres) which is approximately 30% of the world's land surface.
Native Land’s territory boundaries started with Canada, but now cover other parts of the world: Australia, New Zealand, parts of South America, Central America, the Caribbean.
A new global map released by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and published in the World Bank’s World Development Report 2009, measures urbanisation from the new perspective of ...
Google has announced on Twitter that Google Maps on desktop no longer shows a flat map. Instead, it shows the world as being spherical. Previously, when you zoomed out of the map on Google Maps ...
Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East.