The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) with EOMAP have launched an interactive tool providing access to detailed global water quality indicators from an archive of Earth Observation...

The Landsat 8 Earth-observing satellite has marked being five years in orbit. In that time, it has racked up 26,500 orbits around the planet, 1.1 million "scene" captures, and an...

This survey in southern France confirmed the suitability of UAV Lidar for mapping shoreline changes in the context of erosion and drinking water availability. The French Mediterranean coast is a...

Coastal and estuarine saltmarsh has long been recognised as having key physical, ecological, and recreational value, acting as sediment and nutrient traps and as natural coastal protection structures functioning as...

Aerial photography from Bluesky is being used to identify changes in sediment movement in upland river courses, to help assess the risk of flash flooding. In research centred on the English...

Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry and GIS are being used to chart the success of a river restoration project in Northern England. Many of the world’s rivers are degraded as a result of...

Bathymetric data in the shallow water zone is of increasing importance to support various applications such as safety of navigation, reconnaissance surveys, coastal zone management or hydrodynamic modelling. A gap...

Australia now has a full suite of new gravity grids at the national scale, being the first publicly released since 2011. The new gravity data adds to the arsenal of...

Caves are important in a wide variety of fields, ranging from construction engineering to mineral exploration and archaeology. Despite the scientific importance of caves, geologists believe that only a relatively...

Nepal is prone to earthquakes and throughout the centuries the country’s capital city, Kathmandu, has been regularly struck by earthquakes which appear to have similar epicentres and behaviour. The portion...