April

As cities continue expanding, forested areas are becoming scarcer, and less dense. That’s bad news for the wildlife that call those areas home. A University of Cincinnati doctoral student is studying what local areas are important to North America’s largest woodpecker. “The pileated woodpecker is not considered as a vulnerable species, but it is an ...

Seoul Robotics, the company powering smart 3D infrastructure solutions, announced a distribution partnership with Temple, a provider of intelligent transportation systems, to bring its proprietary software, SENSR™, to customers in the Southeast. This is Seoul Robotics’ first partnership with a transportation technology distributor in the U.S. and will expand the company’s deployment of smart infrastructure ...

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is contemplating using drones to aid the upcoming dog census in the city. According to the officials, the technology is being actively considered as it will help cover a larger area in a short period and will give a better understanding of the stray population. “Property surveys in the ...

Following the meeting and negotiations at the highest level between Tajikistan and Azerbaijan, a ceremony of signing of new documents of cooperation took place. Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan and the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan on cooperation in the field of geodesy, cartography, land surveying, cadastre and remote land ...

Investigadores que trabajan en el Laboratorio de Investigación y Reflexión en Agroecología (LIRA), de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales de la UNLP diseñan, a partir de diferentes índices calculados, mapas temáticos que permiten visualizar el riesgo ambiental de las actividades agropecuarias en la provincia de Buenos Aires. Cuando se habla de riesgo, entran ...

Using two decades of NASA satellite measurements stored in the cloud, scientists recently assessed the vulnerability of Belize’s renowned coral reefs to bleaching and collapse. The findings could help management authorities protect the reefs from human impacts such as development, overfishing, pollution, and climate change. In a study published in Frontiers in Remote Sensing, the ...

On 11 September 2022, a diamond mine waste storage facility, known as a tailings dam, failed in the town of Jagersfontein in the Free State province of South Africa. In the failure, one person was killed and multiple homes destroyed. Tailings are the finely ground leftovers that remain after valuable metals are removed from rock ...

“Physicians usually use a cognitive assessment, with pen and paper usually, to determine whether a driver is fit to drive. But these assessments are very limited,” said Dr. Sayeh Bayat, an assistant professor in both the University of Calgary’s department of biomedical engineering and geomatics engineering at the Schulich School of Engineering. Bayat recently received ...

W krajowym Geoportalu udostępniono nowe modele budynków w standardzie LoD1 dla obszaru kolejnych województw: dolnośląskiego, opolskiego oraz wielkopolskiego. Aktualne modele 3D budynków w standardzie LoD1 są dostępne w paczkach powiatowych i zostały wygenerowane w sposób automatyczny na podstawie zaktualizowanych w 2022 r. danych BDOT10k oraz chmury punktów ALS i numerycznego modelu terenu dostępnych w Państwowym ...

Konya Büyükşehir Belediyesi KOSKİ Genel Müdürlüğü’nün Akıllı Şebeke Uygulamaları arasında bulunan Robotik Kanal Görüntüleme Aracı, Hatay’daki altyapı onarım faaliyetlerinde büyük çaplı kazı yapmadan arızalarını hızlı tespit etmeye olanak sağlıyor. Konya Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanı Uğur İbrahim Altay, Konya Büyükşehir Belediyesi KOSKİ Genel Müdürlüğü’nün Akıllı Şebeke Uygulamalarından biri olan Robotik Kanal Görüntüleme Aracıyla kanalizasyon arızalarına müdahale ettiklerini ...

Das Tiefbau- und Vermessungsamt der Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden, Abteilung Stadtvermessung, hat in enger Abstimmung mit der Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG) realisieren können, dass die Wasserspiegellagen für den Rhein und der Mainmündung für den Bereich Wiesbaden dreidimensional (3D) visualisiert werden. Diese waren beim BfG nur zweidimensional für Jedermann abrufbar. Mithilfe dieser Anwendung ist eine Ersteinschätzung bei verschiedenen ...

Die letzten fünf Jahre in Deutschland waren von massiven Sommerdürren geprägt. Sehr viel Wasser ging verloren. Nur: Wie hoch die Verluste genau waren und ob sich daraus ein Trend für die Zukunft ableiten lässt, sind nach wie vor offene Fragen. Ein Team des Deutschen GeoForschungsZentrums (GFZ) hat nun mit Kolleg:innen die Jahre 2002-2022 genauer untersucht. ...

Con datos de la campaña 2021/22 que se suman a los existentes de 2020/21 y el relevamiento en marcha de la vigente campaña 2022/23, Córdoba consolida una nueva metodología de estimaciones agrícolas que incluye el mapeo de cultivos y estimación de rindes y producción a escala semi-predial. El nuevo modelo, desarrollado por el Ministerio de ...

China’s hyperspectral satellite for Earth observation has gone into use after completing in-orbit tests, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the primary developer of the spacecraft, announced on Tuesday. The satellite, Gaofen-5 02, was launched into space on Sept. 7, 2021. Designers mounted seven payloads on it, including short-wave infrared hyperspectral cameras. The onboard devices ...

Uma pequena ferramenta desenvolvida no contexto do último Conselho de Cidadãos, dedicado à “cidade dos 15 minutos”, permite a qualquer pessoa perceber o que tem próximo da sua residência, local de trabalho ou no seu bairro. O mapa foi desenvolvido por Manuel Banza, cientista de dados e entusiasta de cidades, para ajudar os participantes a ...

La società e-Geos (80% Telespazio – 20% Agenzia spaziale italiana) si è aggiudicata una gara dell’Agenzia spaziale europea (Esa) per realizzare l’infrastruttura per l’accesso ai dati e ai servizi di Iride, l’innovativa costellazione satellitare italiana per l’osservazione della Terra promossa dal Governo italiano, grazie alle risorse del Pnrr, e gestita da Esa e Agenzia spaziale ...

The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers has released its Land Survey Data Model (LSDM), continuing the practice of its Geomatics Committee of maintaining an “out-of-the-box” data model template to manage survey data within a geodatabase. The LSDM is an industry standard template for operators to maintain land survey data, mainly acquired for the ...

Norwegian and Estonian researchers have developed a method to map hidden meltwater paths in glaciers. Having a better understanding of how water moves inside and under the glaciers helps to better predict the motion, melting rates, and possible sudden collapses of glaciers. The small floating drifters, about the shape, size, and weight of an average ...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) invite software developers to attend the annual Open Standards and Open Source Software Code Sprint. The hybrid virtual and in-person event will be hosted by Open Source service company Camptocamp SA in Bussigny, Switzerland (near Lausanne). The event ...

L’édition 2023 du Salon international de la Géomatique se tiendra les 27 et 28 avril à Abidjan, précisant que 5.000 visiteurs sont attendus à cet événement. Selon le service de communication du Comité national de télédétection et d’information géographique (CNTIG), 50 pays prendront part à ce salon. Pendant deux jours, ceux-ci auront à visiter 52 ...