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Browse a 3D map of the world’s 2.75 billion buildings
GlobalBuildingAtlas is based on data collected up to 2019. Credit: Earth System Science Data
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday.Researchers in Germany recently accomplished a truly audacious feat of cartography. Using a diverse array of datasets, a team at the Technical University of Munich released GlobalBuildingAtlas, the first high-resolution mapping model featuring every structure in the world at a given point in time.
However, the open-source project isn’t about bragging rights. With over 2.75 billion buildings detailed in the map, the endeavor will help create accurate analyses of urban structures, volume calculations, and infrastructure planning around the planet.
“3D building information provides a much more accurate picture of urbanization and poverty than traditional 2D maps,” research lead Xiaoxiang Zhu said in a statement. “With 3D models, we see not...
“Alien: Earth”: This is what Alien’s creature looks most in nature
It is one of the most emblematic antagonists in the history of science fiction, the xenomorphe ofAlien has terrified us for decades. Researchers have tried to know what he could look like if he really existed.
It has been almost half a century that he makes us scream, even if in space " No one hears us ». The XénomorpheXénomorphe of the saga Alien again returns this year on screens with the new series Alien : Earthwhich depicts events taking place a few years before the 1979 original film by Ridley Scott.
Ferocious beast from the macabre imagination of Hr Giger, the xenomorph is a kind of parasiteparasite au skullskull Lying whose different stages of evolution are revealed to us as the saga progresses.
And if this enemy has become one of the symbols of science fiction,...
NASA’s Earth Information Center at the Smithsonian
NASA Space Technology Monika LuabeyaOct 08, 2024NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, preview the agency’s new Earth Information Center exhibit on Monday, Oct. 8, 2024. This new exhibit is the Earth Information Center’s second physical location.The exhibit at the Smithsonian includes a 32-foot-long, 12-foot-high video wall displaying Earth science data visualizations and videos, interpretive panels showing Earth’s connected systems, information on our changing world, and an overview of how NASA and the Smithsonian study our home planet. It opens to the public Tuesday, Oct. 8, and will remain on display through 2028.Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Earth observation companies wary of Starshield
Top Stories Tamfitronics PARIS — After seeing the disruption that Starlink has had on the satellite communications market, companies in the Earth observation sector are closely following the development of a related SpaceX system.Executives with several Earth observation companies said during a panel at World Space Business Week here Sept. 19 that they are keeping tabs on SpaceX’s Starshield system, with some seeing competitive concerns and others opportunities for partnerships.SpaceX announced the Starshield program in late 2022, billing it as a version of its Starlink satellites designed for national security applications. The company said that included Earth observation in addition to communications and hosted payloads.“Starshield launches satellites with sensing payloads and delivers processed data directly to the user,” the company says on its website. The company has provided little other information about Starshield and its...
