Research

A team at the University of Washington has developed the first underwater 3D-positioning app for smart devices. “Mobile devices today can work nearly anywhere on Earth.” said lead author Tuochao Chen, a UW doctoral student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. “But the one place where we still hadn’t made ...

Wildfire Analytics, the University of Alberta’s wildland fire research team, has developed a new tool that assesses directional vulnerability to wildfires in communities. The tool looks at what drives fire across a landscape, according to PhD student Air Forbes. Forbes is using directional assessment in her PhD thesis. She has created the directional vulnerability assessment ...

You don’t always need a laser—sometimes a camera will do. Researchers at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) have now disproved the paradigm that the height of snowpack can only be accurately determined from the air using laser scanners, says Yves Bühler, Head of the SLF’s Alpine Remote Sensing research group. “We ...

The University of South Florida has received a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant which will allow researchers at the university to develop an application to identify flood risks. The app will combine volunteered geographic information and community crowdsourced data such as photos, and videos, with near real-time data on flooding. Using dynamic modeling and ...

An interdisciplinary team from San Diego State University analyzed the accessibility of public restrooms along transit lines countywide and found a shortage of facilities, particularly in the busiest stations, and a lack of important features in existing restrooms. Their project, “Where Can You Go On the Go?” was an initiative of SDSU’s Project for Sanitation ...

Neuralangelo, a new AI model by NVIDIA Research for 3D reconstruction using neural networks, turns 2D video clips into detailed 3D structures — generating lifelike virtual replicas of buildings, sculptures and other real-world objects. Like Michelangelo sculpting stunning, life-like visions from blocks of marble, Neuralangelo generates 3D structures with intricate details and textures. Creative professionals ...

„Trotz aller Herausforderungen ist es uns gemeinsam gelungen, für das Eisenbahn-Bundesamt eines der größten deutschlandweiten Geodatenmanagementprojekte termingerecht abzuschließen. Ein derart komplexes Projekt erfordert auch ein professionelles Projektmanagement. Durch die Bündelung erfahrener Lärmexperten, Qualitätsmanager und Datenspezialisten konnte das eingespielte Kompetenzteam Risiken bewerten und passgenaue Lösungen entwickeln“, blickt Claus Hofmann, Geschäftsführer von Disy Informationssysteme, auf die gut ...

Donato Kofel has quantified the positive and negative effects of trees on outdoor air quality in Geneva Canton. His method can be used by city planners to design their large-scale planting programs more effectively. For his Master’s project at the end of his degree program, Kofel developed a new way to use the GIS application ...

O Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da USP (MAE) está usando soluções de uma startup baseada em tecnologia blockchain no mapeamento e registro do patrimônio arqueológico de São Paulo. A solução foi desenvolvida para Museu pela Quipo Tech, empresa residente na Incubadora do Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC), ligado ao Ministério de Ciências Tecnologias ...

While some parts of the world suffer extreme heat and persistent drought, others are being flooded. Overall, continental water volumes vary so much over time that global sea levels fluctuate significantly too. By combining the hydrological model WaterGAP with GRACE satellite data, a team of geodesists at the University of Bonn have come up with ...

Archaeologists at the University of Exeter have used laser scans collected as part of the Environment Agency’s National LiDAR Programme to identify new sections of road west of the previously understood boundary. Among the things it reveals is that far from Exeter being the main nerve centre of the network, it was North Tawton that ...

Telhados verdes têm sido apontados como uma das possíveis soluções para o combate às mudanças climáticas nas cidades. Isso porque, além de permitirem a captação de água da chuva e a produção de hortaliças no alto dos edifícios, eles também são capazes de gerar microclima, reduzindo a temperatura local e o gasto energético com refrigeração, ...

Heliconius butterflies are capable of spatial learning, scientists have discovered. The findings, published in Current Biology, also suggest Heliconius butterflies may be able to learn spatial information at large scales, consistent with the apparent importance of long-range spatial learning for traplining, which involves foraging within a home range of a few hundred square meters. Spatial ...

The effects of climate change appear to be driving Arctic fox numbers down in northern Manitoba, threatening their role as “ecosystem engineers” that have a green thumb effect on relatively barren swaths of tundra. That’s according to two separate studies published this summer based on recent research in the Churchill area. “We have classified Arctic ...

Naukowcy z Wojskowej Akademii Technicznej zaproponowali innowacyjną metodę pomiaru ubożenia wód podziemnych opartą na pomiarach GPS. To, jak zmienia się poziom wód podziemnych, będzie można monitorować zdalnie – nawet w najbardziej odległych częściach świata. Mimo że techniki teledetekcyjne się rozwijają, a obserwacje naziemne stają się coraz dokładniejsze, modele opisujące poziom wód gruntowych nadal nie są ...

This summer, a group of students are embarking on a groundbreaking project: mapping tree canopy cover in California. Tree canopies, which provide shade, can offset the heat island effect in cities. The effect is caused by buildings, roads and other human-made infrastructure absorbing and then re-emitting heat. In a warming climate, the heat island effect ...

Elsa Blanco Beausela, originaria de Palencia, cursa el grado de Biología en la Universidad de León. Su talento e innovación la llevaron a ganar el premio Talento Joven de la Asociación Activos y Felices, el cual será entregado en septiembre, en reconocimiento a su notable invento destinado a mejorar la vida de las personas ciegas. ...

Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are teaming up with a local organization to pioneer the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the lives of autistic and neurodiverse individuals in North Alabama. The project is being funded by Little Orange Fish (LOF), a Huntsville, Ala., non-profit, to improve access to mental ...

El consorcio del grupo operativo ‘MoniCa’, formado por el Departamento de Geografía Física y Análisis Geográfico Regional de la Universidad de Sevilla (US), Emergya Grupo, Asaja-Cádiz y CTA (Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía), ha recibido financiación para este proyecto de la Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Desarrollo Rural de la Junta de Andalucía, con cargo a ...

Sur la carte des îlots de chaleur de Montréal de 2019, une tache rouge bordée d’orange apparaît au centre du parc Rutherford, situé sur le flanc du mont Royal. Pourtant, six années auparavant, la zone apparaissait en vert sur la carte produite à partir d’images satellite. C’est qu’entre les deux prises d’images, un terrain sportif ...

Northern boreal forest ecosystems are predicted to experience more frequent summer droughts in the future. The majority of Swedish forest are secondary forests that are managed commercial forests with little diversity in species and structure. Only a small part is made up of primary forests that have experienced limited direct human impact. So far, it ...

As the Arctic warms at nearly four times the global rate, permafrost – frozen ground that has remained below 0 degrees Celsius for at least two consecutive years – is thawing rapidly, causing widespread ground collapse and infrastructure damage, threatening Arctic communities and releasing carbon into the atmosphere. To date, while vast amounts of high ...

A new trip-planning app has shown encouraging results in improving navigation inside subway stations, according to a study published in IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, promising the possibility of easier commutes for people who are blind and low-vision. Designed by researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and NYU Grossman School ...

In the paper, “Extended SLIC superpixels algorithm for applications to non-imagery geospatial rasters,” published in the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, researchers from Adam Mickiewicz University and University of Cincinnati proposed an improved version of the popular SLIC algorithm for image segmentation, known as extended SLIC, to be applicable on multidimensional spatial ...

This summer, as wildfire smoke blankets large swaths of North America and heat-stoked summer haze reaches its seasonal peak, NASA and its partners are deploying several new tools to observe air quality and pollution from the street to the stratosphere. Launched into orbit earlier this spring, TEMPO, short for Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution, is ...

For the first time, a project led by the University of Oxford has trained a machine learning model in outer space, on board a satellite. This achievement could revolutionise the capabilities of remote-sensing satellites by enabling real-time monitoring and decision making for a range of applications. Currently, most satellites can only passively collect data, since ...

Diamonds form under great pressures in the depths of the Earth and are hundreds, or even billions of years old. They are usually found in types of volcanic rocks called kimberlites, which are located in the oldest, strongest, and thickest parts of the continents, such as in South Africa, where the well-known diamond rush of ...

Driverless cars can struggle to distinguish between a pedestrian and a cardboard cutout of a person when it is dark or particularly rainy. A system that uses AI to identify objects based on their heat emission patterns could help autonomous vehicles to operate more safely in all outdoor conditions. Zubin Jacob at Purdue University in ...

University of Texas at Dallas researchers are using geospatial mapping techniques to identify social and environmental obstacles in communities that might impede burn injury survivors’ reentry into society. The project is designed to help patients with burn injuries better adapt to their lives after medical discharge, including improving patient access to transportation, employment, food and ...

Researchers have proposed a novel method for counting and tracking vehicles on public roads, a development that could enhance current traffic systems and help travelers get to their destinations faster. Using the cameras already installed on campus buses at The Ohio State University, researchers demonstrated that they could automatically and accurately measure counts of vehicles ...