Nature

Remote sensing for land cover mapping across Victoria, Australia – a machine learning application

This paper presents a detailed land cover mapping study for the state of Victoria in Australia conducted through a machine learning approach (random forest algorithm) using Sentinel-2 imagery. The ...
Nature

Research on land cover classification of multi-source remote sensing data based on improved U-net network

In recent years, remote sensing images of various types have found widespread applications in resource exploration, environmental protection, and land cover classification. However, relying solely on ...
Daily Maverick

Sizing up Africa: The AU vs the Gerardus Mercator map standard

There is an episode in The West Wing television series in which White House press spokesperson CJ Craig meets a delegation of cartographers, who explain that the standard world map — a Mercator ...
The Conversation

World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...