Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
A scientist from The Australian National University (ANU) is helping set up an international network to use surveillance camera networks and drone data to spy on trees. The network will help make huge amounts of time-lapse image...
Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
PARIS, Dec. 1, 2015—Google Maps and FAO have agreed to work closely together to make geospatial tracking and mapping products more accessible, providing a high-technology assist to countries tackling climate change and much greater capacity to experts...
Thursday, June 11th, 2015
Redlands, Calif.—Esri unveiled its Human Health and Climate Change App Challenge, calling on the worldwide GIS community to create apps that help communities visualize, understand, and combat the health impacts of climate change. Esri...
Thursday, June 11th, 2015
REDLANDS, Calif., June 10 — In a next phase of support of The White House Climate Action Plan, Esri will donate its best-of-breed GIS technology and counsel to help developing countries visualize, understand,...
Tuesday, May 12th, 2015
James Cook University scientists have mapped the entire Australian continent to find the areas that will best support wildlife 70 years from now, even under a relatively severe climate change scenario.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
Focused primarily on roads, water supply and public spaces, the civic body's development plan for the old and new city areas has not taken into to account the impact of climate change , as it is still...
Monday, January 26th, 2015
RESTON, Va., Jan. 26, 2015—Improved global topographic (elevation) data are now publicly available for most of Asia (India, China, southern Siberia, Japan, Indonesia), Oceania (Australia, New Zealand), and western Pacific Islands. See diagram...
Monday, October 13th, 2014
ROME, Oct. 10, 2014—FAO has launched free software tools that it hopes will improve the way many developing nations monitor the state of their forests to tackle deforestation and climate change. The tools are designed to assist countries through the...
Monday, October 13th, 2014
NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2014—On the occasion of the upcoming UN climate change summit, Chinese government donated the GlobeLand30 datasets to the United Nations at...
Thursday, October 9th, 2014
U.S. satellite imagery from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is expected to soon begin helping the roughly 60 million people living in the Lower Mekong River Basin of Southeast Asia to deal with natural disasters...