Taking land-use models out of the lab for a test drive with the people who live the models gives scientists a new way to develop possible future scenarios. James Millington, a former post-doctoral ...

Land cover maps are widely used in climate modeling, biodiversity conservation, environmental assessment, and policy design.

Junchuan Fan and Gautam Thakur helped develop MapSpace, a land-use modeling framework developed from natural language data, geotagging and global location data. (Lena Shoemaker/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of ...

A new scientific report lays bare the stark impacts of land-system change and land degradation on planetary health, while also offering solutions to these problems. The report was published on the eve ...

This chapter describes work that links multiple data sources and research perspectives to advance understanding of the dynamics and human causes of land use change, particularly urban growth, in the ...

Land use planning ensures the use of land resources in an organized fashion so that the needs of the present and future generations can be best addressed. Land use planning has as its basic purpose to ...

A new report from the IEA PVPS Task 13, titled “Dual Land Use for Agriculture and Solar Power Production: Overview and Performance of Agrivoltaic Systems,” lays out a compelling vision for how solar ...

When geoinformatics engineering researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory wanted to better understand changes in land areas and points of interest around the world, they ...