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 ...

Missing knowledge in the global distribution of plant traits could be filled with data from species identification apps. Researchers were able to demonstrate this based on data from the popular ...

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 ...

Google Maps continues to crank out the updates; the default map view has been updated with new shading detail to convey terrain information, along with color gradations to depict vegetation and labels ...