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On Tuesday, the Troup County Board of Commissioners signed off on a joint funding agreement for aerial imagery services. Troup County, the City of LaGrange, the City of Hogansville and the City of ...

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The study warns that satellite-derived land surface temperature (LST) data, widely used to map urban heat, misrepresents ...

From drones to data to discovery, geology is high-tech. OHIO’s online MS in Geological Sciences gives professionals and ...

This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Thousands of pieces of reference materials were needed to draw the maps in 1970s and 1980s, including aerial images from the newspaper, blueprints from the planning office, travel books and postcards, ...

For generations, schools, media outlets and decision-makers have relied on a familiar world map. It has become a global standard, seen everywhere from classroom posters to government buildings. But ...