American-made Magellan™ Survey Drone Arises from Stealth at TSPS 2025

SmartDrone Corporation launched Magellan™, an NDAA-compliant survey-grade industrial drone designed specifically for land surveyors, at the Texas Society of Professional Surveyors (TSPS) conference.
IEEE

Coastal and Land Use Land Cover Area Recognition From High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images Using a Novel Multimodal Attention Inception Residual Deep Network

Abstract: As an important problem in earth observation, aerial scene classification tries to assign a specific semantic label to an aerial image. The land use land cover (LULC) classification in the ...
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What is next for the Helena Forward Land Use Plan?

Diane Keaton dies. The Oscar-winning 'Annie Hall' and 'Godfather' actress was 79. Trump critic and former national security adviser John Bolton to be charged soon, sources say Cardiologist: 9 American ...
IEEE

Multiscale and Fine-Grained Feature Mining Model for Land Use and Land Cover Classification

Abstract: Accurate land use and land cover (LULC) classification from remote sensing images (RSIs) is a challenging task due to issues such as the coexistence of multiple objects, scale differences, ...
Reuters

Surging Nile waters inundate Egypt and Sudan, revive dispute over Ethiopian mega-dam

Late-season flooding hits villages in Egypt's Nile Delta Egypt blames Ethiopia's 'reckless unilateral' management of its grand dam Ethiopia rejects charge, says regulated water releases reduced impact ...
The Oklahoman

Massive 645-acre project on Aubrey McClendon's land in east Edmond called a 'game changer'

The family of the late Aubrey McClendon plans a major development on 645 acres in east Edmond. The project, developed over decades, could include up to 4,500 homes and 120 acres of commercial space.
Marin Independent Journal

San Anselmo drafts land-use map revisions

San Anselmo is updating parts of its land-use map to redesignate parcels to align with current zoning rules, plan for housing and preserve open space. The town’s general plan was last updated in 1975, ...
Columbus Dispatch

Data centers are grabbing thousands of acres in central Ohio. But are they the best use?

Communities often celebrate data center openings. But for all the benefits state and local officials tout for the massive facilities, they also bring their share of problems — including gobbling up ...
NASA

Spectral Bands and Applications

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. In 1972, Landsat 1 launched with two instruments: an analog three-band Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) camera system and a ...
Staten Island Advance

NYC officials at war over ballot measures that could change the land use process

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Elected officials and community leaders announced Tuesday a lawsuit to stop the New York City Charter Revision Commission’s ballot proposals they say would “radically change” the city ...
Capital Press

Land use ruling approves home sites in Oregon big game habitat

A proposal to rezone a 100-acre “farm forest” property to allow for 10 home sites in Oregon’s Linn County has won approval from a state land use board. The county government originally authorized the ...