Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, near the border with Brazil, a striking landform has stirred scientific curiosity and cultural ...

Abstract: This paper presents a study towards machine generation of landform maps from optical remote sensing data. Our approach uses an offline trained multilayer perceptron (MLP) as a classifier, ...

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Less than a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, U.S. troops—with support from British, Canadian, French, German and Australian forces—invaded Afghanistan to fight Al ...

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced an excruciatingly delicate task. Although he had promised—and campaigned on—a policy of American neutrality in World War II the year before, Roosevelt ...

Donald Trump may be president, but that doesn’t mean you want him as the navigator on a road trip. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images That’s because the president made a claim about the Middle East on ...

Donald Trump may be president, but that doesn’t mean you want him as the navigator on a road trip. That’s because the president made a claim about the Middle East on Sunday not supported by any map ― ...

Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t necessarily reliable. In fact, many of the maps in our heads share the ...

For more than two decades, the mission of homeland security has been defined by its geography, by borders, perimeters, and zones of protection. From the aftermath of 9/11 to the present-day challenges ...

Pittsburgh became a majority renter city relatively recently, with the U.S. Census Bureau estimating that 52% of housing units in the city are renter-occupied. That’s slightly less than regional peer ...