The AI developed in this study identifies existing wells marked on historical topographic maps, and then determines which of ...

Undocumented orphaned wells pose hazards to both the environment and the climate. Scientists are building modern tools to ...

AI methodologies from Berkeley Lab identify undocumented orphaned wells, enhancing environmental safety and supporting ...

New England has thousands of miles of stone walls. A geoscientist explains why analyzing them scientifically is a solid step ...

The model was trained on about one hundred maps, and was used to sort through topographical maps spanning 45 years.

Since 2011, the United States Geological Survey has uploaded 190,000 scans of historical USGS topographic maps made between 1884 and 2006. Crucially, the maps are geotagged, meaning each pixel ...