Making a map to make a difference: Interactive GIS tool shows superfund flooding dangers

Geographic information system (GIS) maps help researchers, policymakers, and community members see how environmental risks ...
deseret

Public land sales didn’t make the ‘big beautiful bill’ but these land-use laws did

More than 200 million acres are now available for oil and gas leases under the "one big beautiful bill." The law makes quarterly oil and gas lease sales mandatory, with 100% of all nominated land ...

New database reveals how Americans use water

Water powers our lives. It feeds our crops, keeps factories running, generates electricity, and fills our taps. But until now, no one had a clear, national picture of how much water we're using—and ...
IEEE

Multilevel Multimodal CNN–Transformer Fusion Network for Land Use and Land Cover Classification

Abstract: In remote sensing (RS), convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are well-recognized for their spatial–spectral feature extraction capabilities, whereas vision transformers (ViTs), which ...
The Citizen

Proposed Highway 85 Data Center Heads to Fayetteville Planning Commission

A proposed data center along Highway 85 North will be reviewed by the Fayetteville Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday, January 27, continuing an ongo ...
IEEE

What Helps to Detect What? Explainable AI and Multisensor Fusion for Semantic Segmentation of Simultaneous Crop and Land Cover Land Use Delineation

Abstract: This study introduces two novel explainable AI frameworks, Interclass-Grad-CAM and Spectral-Grad-CAM, designed to enhance the interpretability of semantic segmentation models for Crop and ...
Frontiers

Soil properties under different land uses and slope gradients: Implications for sustainable land management in the Tach Karnuary watershed, Northwestern Ethiopia

Introduction:: Soil degradation resulting from land use changes and topographic variations poses a significant threat to agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability in the Northwestern ...