GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Many people use a map on their phone when it comes to finding where they’re going. One Gulfport company plays a major part in that, mapping nearly every corner of the globe.

Purdue University’s Jingjing Liang has received a two-year, $870,000 grant from the World Resources Institute to map global forest carbon accumulation rates. “To accurately capture the carbon ...

Of all the ways that humans consume water, there is no practice that uses more water than irrigation, which accounts for more than 90% of humanity’s water consumption. While irrigation is necessary to ...

Accurate land cover mapping underpins biodiversity protection, climate adaptation, and sustainable land use. Despite advances in remote sensing, satellite-only approaches remain limited by cloud cover ...

Using more than 2.8 billion fungal sequences sampled from 130 countries, scientists map the biodiversity of Earth's underground mycorrhizal fungal communities. Scientists have released the world's ...

The Overture Maps Foundation, a collaboration between Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and TomTom, has released the general availability of its global open map datasets. Developers can access it for free.

Researchers have completed a comprehensive online map of the world’s coral reefs by using more than 2 million satellite images from across the globe. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

Maps have shaped human history far more than many people realize. Long before satellites and digital navigation existed, maps helped civilizations trade, travel, wage wars, and explore unfamiliar ...