Using data collected by the VIIRS sensor aboard the Suomi NPP satellite, NOAA has created a map of the world's vegetation. James Martin is the Managing Editor of Photography at CNET. His photos ...

An ecological analyst with ODNR works on the new interactive vegetation map of 18 th century Ohio. If you've been wondering what Ohio looked like, well, before it was a state, the Ohio Department of ...

A satellite barely bigger than a washing machine and launched just two months ago has already made this great map of the world's vegetation. (Click on it for a higher-resolution version.) The ...

An international study led by the University of Liège proposes a new map of the potential for natural vegetation on Earth, far beyond forests. By incorporating the role of fire and herbivores, ...

A technique for fine-scale vegetation mapping with the aid of low-altitude aerial photography was developed. The procedure is as follows: 1. The site is divided into a lattice pattern - in case the ...

A new system to map the world's 'biomes' -- large-scale vegetation formations -- has been developed that will provide an objective method for monitoring how vegetation reacts as climate changes. The ...

University of Minnesota researchers created the world’s first global vegetation map based on data from 45,000 plants belonging to more than 3,600 species. More than 50 researchers worked on the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released on Wednesday a high-resolution map of all of the planet's vegetation from it's recently launched Proba-V satellite. It is beautiful. The boxy Proba-V — the ...