Researchers say the AI system can lead to better decision-making around a wide range of complex policy choices. Using global land use and carbon storage data from the past 175 years, researchers at ...

City of Vancouver homeless response coordinator Jamie Spinelli, third from left, talks to a crowd Wednesday, March 1, 2023, during the Columbian Conversations event at Kiggins Theatre. The panel of ...

When geoinformatics engineering researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory wanted to better understand changes in land areas and points of interest around the world, they ...

Since the 1980s, forests and agricultural soils have been widely considered as an important, and low cost, option to reduce net atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions ( Richards and Stokes, 2004).

Every piece of land carries a story of development, transformation, and human impact. From expanding urban centers to shifting agricultural zones, land use plays a crucial role in shaping both local ...

Food, feed, fiber, and bioenergy: The demand for agricultural raw materials is rising. How can additional cultivation areas be reconciled with nature conservation? Researchers have developed a ...

Data is fundamental to hydrological modeling and water resource management; however, it remains a major challenge in many ...

Rwanda's new Participatory Land Readjustment (PLR) model is transforming the way communities upgrade and develop their neighborhoods, according to the Land Use and Mapping Department at National Land ...

Junchuan Fan and Gautam Thakur helped develop MapSpace, a land-use modeling framework developed from natural language data, geotagging and global location data. (Lena Shoemaker/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of ...