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Digital invisibility ends worldwide—first-ever 3D map puts all 2.75B buildings on the grid
For the first time, researchers have assembled a complete digital picture of the world’s built environment, mapping every ...
From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.
Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map.
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First high-resolution 3D map covering all of Earth’s 2.75 billion buildings unveiled
Scientists in Germany have, for the first time, created the most comprehensive digital representation of the world’s man-made ...
A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...
It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...
DJI has launched an online reference to track events around the world when a drone helped rescue someone from peril. The Drone Rescue Map shows how more than 400 people around the world have been ...
World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014, the ...
If a tree falls in the forest, will another replace it? Of the roughly 3 million square kilometers of forest lost worldwide from 2001 to 2015, a new analysis suggests that 27 percent of that loss was ...
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