Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense tropical forest. The objective: map thousands of square miles, including ...

1 Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa 2 Department of Geography, University of South Africa, ...

Trump officials are eager to “fix” the country’s mining industry, beleaguered by crime; instability; and a dearth of investment, data and oversight. While President Donald Trump is fixated on ...

Resource-rich African nations risk missing out on the investment needed to extract and refine their mineral wealth into high-value products for the clean energy transition because they lack accurate ...

Abstract: This study examines the development of hologram maps that provide a precise, intuitive depiction of underwater topography in a genuine three-dimensional format. It integrates sophisticated ...

Africa’s official maps are stuck in the past, often either outdated, incomplete—or both. But governments don’t have the budgets to fix them, making it difficult to complete projects as complex as ...

When the Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC) began a multi-year collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), they worked together to modernize a critical public health information source: ...

Part 2: The search to identify underground resources is often done from the sky. Here’s how that scientific magic happens Helicopters sporting long appendages are flying over some rural areas of the ...

USGS released its most detailed national geologic map, offering layered views of geology beneath the Earth’s surface across the lower 48 states. The Cooperative National Geologic Map integrates data ...

SAN ANTONIO – District 6 council member Ric Galvan filed the city’s first policy proposal request to examine the exponential growth of data centers in San Antonio. Data centers, which house the ...

In what the agency hopes will spur a major leap in American geoscience, the U.S. Geological Survey has released a new mapping tool that allows anyone to peer into the earth beneath their feet. Dubbed ...