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15 hours ago · Mapping Greenland’s geology is no easy feat. The Greenland Ice Sheet, which covers more than 1% of Earth’s land surface and nearly 80% of Greenland’s landmass, obscures much of the island ...
1 day ago · A comparison of new GPS measurements with unique 65-year-old data shows that the ice 100 km inland in Greenland is moving faster now. Scientists have conducted new GPS measurements inland at Sermeq Kujalleq in western Greenland that reveal that parts of the ice sheet are moving 5-15 per cent faster now than 65 years ago. Thursday 25 April 2024.
4 days ago · Using the " + " and " - " buttons you can change the image scale, and use the cursor to move around the aerial map of the earth. The 2D button converts the image to 2D format. On the right side of the screen, a moving scale with different years switches between aerial images, showing images from different years and thus giving you an idea of ...
4 days ago · The dataset facilitates global accounting of forest inventory at a high level of detail. Our data finds that more than one-third of the land on earth (50 million km 2) has an above 1-meter canopy height, while 35 million km 2 have a canopy height greater than 5m. The dataset analyzes the best available satellite imagery from the years 2009 ...
4 days ago · Earth Day: EVs the way forward to sustainability. The Google doodle for this Earth Day shows time lapses of satellite imageries capturing Earth’s transformation from 2000-2020 and the animation highlights the irreversible impacts of climate change on Earth that took place in just twenty years from melting glaciers, severe drought, forest fire.
4 days ago · Related: Happy Earth Day 2024! NASA picks 6 new airborne missions to study our changing planet. Here's a walkthrough of that large letter "G," and the other six-sevenths of Google homage to Earth ...
4 days ago · The seamless geological map of southern West, South-West and South Greenland at scale 1:100,000 is the result of the digitisation and homogenisation of 16 geological maps in scale 1:100,000, supplemented with scale 1:500,000 maps. The map is optimised for display in scale 1:100,000. A legend is enclosed as pdf-file. Three GEUS fonts are enclosed.
