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DENVER, Colorado, February 14, 2024 (ENS) - It's Geo Week in Denver, where one of the world’s largest geospatial conferences is underway. As part of the gathering, on February 12, a group of Lidar enthusiasts celebrated the first World Lidar Day, marking this date as an annual celebration of the expanding world enabled by Light Detection and Ranging, LIDAR. %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business

Coastal Resilience - How the National Ocean Service supports this national priority

Nationally standardized, raster-based inventories of U.S. coastal land cover data are derived from the analysis of multiple dates of remotely sensed imagery. Two types of files are available: individual dates of land cover that supply a wall-to-wall map for each area, and change files that compare one date to another.

A Canadian technology company is using aerial imagery to build high-precision maps of US shorelines that will be used to help coastal communities adapt to

On World Oceans Day, a new Climate Central study explores how wetlands—and the benefits they provide to coastal communities, economies, and ecosystems—can, or cannot, adapt to rising sea levels.