Aerial view of polygonal patterns in green tundra near a blue water body, typical of permafrost terrain. Text: New Paper- Monitoring Arctic Permafrost – Examining the Contribution of Volunteered Geographic Information to Mapping Ice-Wedge Polygons

New Paper on the Contribution of Volunteered Geographic Information to Mapping Arctic Permafrost

A recent study within the UndercoverEisAgenten project demonstrates that citizen…
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A woman presenting a slide titled "How does it work?" to an audience in a conference room. The text reads "Geoinformatics meets Global Health, Global Digital Health Research Alumni Project Week."

Geoinformatics meets Global Health at the Global Digital Health Project Week

Last week, the “Global Digital Health” Research Alumni Project Week…

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Nine 3D scatter plots showing relationships between meteorological variables and PM2.5 concentrations in Temuco, Chile, with a color scale from blue to red.

New paper “Influence of Meteorological Variables on PM2.5 Concentrations in Cities Heated with Solid Fuels: A Case Study from Temuco, Chile”

Air pollution caused by fine particulate matter (PM₂.₅) is a…

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World map showing clusters of active OpenStreetMap users and their edits in 2025, represented by red and dark red circles of varying sizes.

Moving to ohsomeDB

At State of the Map Europe 2025, we have introduced…
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Image on the right: © sig_3co, Panoramax; Figure on the left illustrates the workflow and challenges of extracting road attributes from 3-4m PlanetScope imagery.

New Global Satellite Dataset for Humanitarian Routing and Tracking Infrastructure Change

A new global dataset released by the HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute…

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Aerial view of an abandoned sugarcane processing facility with a tall chimney and surrounding green fields under a clear sky.

New Paper “Predisposing Factors of Sugarcane Abandonment in Rio de Janeiro: Exploring Policy Implications”

This study investigates sugarcane farmland abandonment in Rio de Janeiro…

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