July

O Instituto Água e Terra (IAT) lançou nesta sexta-feira (28), Dia Mundial da Conservação da Natureza, uma nova ferramenta para colaborar com a preservação do meio ambiente no Paraná. A plataforma Áreas Estratégicas para a Conservação e Restauração da Biodiversidade (AECR), desenvolvida pelas equipes da diretoria de Patrimônio Natural e do Núcleo de Inteligência Geográfica ...

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 ...

WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc., a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality (“AR”) Technology provider, today announced that a big data analytical engine system based on GIS location was developed to improve the efficiency of data utilization. WiMi’s big data analytical engine system not only integrates and analyzes spatial data using GIS technology, but also processes, mines, ...

1Spatial — a global provider of geospatial software and solutions for improved data governance — has launched the 1Capture, a customizable mobile application for data capture. 1Capture is a mobile GIS editing application that is multi-use and configurable. It provides accurate and reliable GIS data collection and editing in the field for a multitude of ...

Vom 13. bis 21. Juli fand in Baden–Württemberg die „Aktionswoche Geodäsie“ statt. Insbesondere die staatlichen Stellen beziehungsweise die kommunalen Arbeitgeber waren dabei aufgefordert, das Berufsbild der Vermessung einer breiten Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen und junge Menschen für den Beruf und dessen Tätigkeitsbereiche zu begeistern. Höhenbestimmung mittels Nivellierinstrumenten und mit dem Tachymeter, Positionsbestimmung mit Satelliten, Bauabsteckung ...

After Jharkhand and Assam, the World Resources Institute (WRI) India launched its flagship geospatial platform, energy access explorer or EAE, for Nagaland in Kohima on July 28. A WRI India official told this correspondent EAE is a geospatial platform that provides data on electricity, health, education and livelihood indicators in the regions that it serves ...

All roads maintained by Sri Lanka’s local councils will be mapped by 2025, a state minister said on Thursday evening. State Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government Janaka Wakkumbura told the media that such operation, which was last carried out 36 years ago, would help all stakeholders identify roads maintained by each local government ...

Con el invierno en pleno desarrollo en la región de Coquimbo, la iniciativa de ciencia ciudadana toma protagonismo en los sectores cordilleranos: escuelas y vecinos trabajan en conjunto al Centro Científico CEAZA, en el que desde el 2018 realizan mediciones de las precipitaciones de lluvia o nieve que ocurran en sus comunas. Al finalizar un ...

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 ...

As the host city of Intergeo 2023 this October, Berlin promises to deliver the perfect kick-start for the geospatial industry in these rapidly changing times. The vibrant German capital is renowned for its innovating and entrepreneurial spirit, and the event itself is being held in Berlin’s biggest and most modern venue, Hub27. Earth observation, unmanned ...

금일 제주알마켓 하루방앱은 ‘토지 미래가치 예측 기술’ 관련 특허 등록을 완료했다고 밝혔다. 이번에 특허받은 기술은 GIS(지리 정보 시스템)와 빅데이터 기술을 융복합한 토지의 미래가치 예측기능이 구비된 지도정보서비스시스템의 제어방법이다. 본 특허는 △개별토지의 환경적 및 사회적 가치 평가, △토지의 미래가치 예측 및 산출, △필지별 용도지역 분석, △용도지역 변경 이력 추적, △개발행위 허가 여부 판단, △개별공시지가 변동 추이 파악 ...

Die Stadt Köln möchte mit einem neuen Projekt kühle Orte im Stadtgebiet sichtbar machen und somit Bürger:innen weiter für das Thema ‚Hitze‘ sensibilisieren. Auf der städtischen Internetseite im „Kölner Hitzeportal“ wird eine Stadtkarte freigeschaltet, in denen Kölner:innen „ihre“ Orte eintragen können, die ihnen bei hohen Sommertemperaturen Kühle und Erholung versprechen. Bei diesen kühlen Orten kann ...

We have launched a new online map for women and girls to use to highlight areas they feel safe or unsafe in Essex. When accessing the map, women and girls can ‘drop a pin’ on a particular area that they have felt unsafe. They can then state why. It can be used on a desktop ...

Chengdu Nationstar Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd., known as Nationstar Aerospace, has achieved a remarkable feat in space technology as the “Tai’an” (Star Era-16) satellite was successfully launched into orbit on July 22, 2023. According to the report, the satellite carried the Ceres-1 remote-6 carrier rocket and took off from the China Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. ...

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday hosted NASA administrator Bill Nelson and U.S. Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley at the presidential palace. According to a statement from the Brazilian government, Mr. Nelson spoke of the possibility of supporting Brazil’s fight against deforestation with the help of new aircraft capable of capturing precise photographs of fires, ...

A group formed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and mapping company TomTom is releasing data that could enable developers to build their own maps to take on Google Map and Apple Maps. The group, called the Overture Maps Foundation, was formed last year. Today, the group has released it first open map dataset. With this dataset, ...

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 ...

Woolpert has been contracted to collect high-density Lidar data for more than 17,500 square kilometres of rural Texas to map electrical distribution poles and wires along with surrounding natural and man-made infrastructure. The data will be collected via fixed-wing manned aircraft. The high-density point cloud will be classified and used to construct survey grade 3D ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled a geospatial product called Crop Sequence Boundaries (CSB) that offers public access to national-scale visual crop rotation data for the first time. The new tool was developed by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and Economic Research Service (ERS), two of the department’s statistical scientific research agencies. CSB is ...

Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) and Japan’s National Space Policy Secretariat of the Cabinet Office have signed a letter of intent (LOI) for cooperation to develop and utilize satellite navigation systems and technologies. Regarding the LOI for cooperation with Japan, BRIN’s Head of Research Organization for Electronics and Informatics Budi Prawara said Japan’s ...

Satellites will soon be used to keep an independent eye on airborne planes, under a deal agreed between ESA and Spire Global, a company that provides space-based data, analytics and space services. Spire will design an advanced civilian aviation surveillance system that uses a constellation of satellites to monitor flights globally in real time, as ...

Through an intelligent combination of geotagged social media, global location and natural language data, ORNL’s Junchuan Fan and Gautam Thakur developed MapSpace, a publicly available, scalable land-use modeling framework. By providing data characteristics broader and deeper than satellite imagery alone, MapSpace can generate population analytics invaluable for urban planning and disaster response. The researchers’ findings ...

Мособлархитектурой совместно с ГБУ МО «Мособлгеотрест» реализована новая онлайн-услуга «Предоставление пространственных данных и материалов, содержащихся в фонде пространственных данных Московской области», которая доступна на региональном портале госуслуг. В Фонд пространственных данных Московской области передаются данные и материалы, полученные в результате выполнения геодезических работ, ортофотопланы и результаты аэро- и космических съемок. На сегодня Фонд содержит порядка ...

The Wyoming Natural Diversity Database (WYNDD) at the University of Wyoming will replace two of its most popular online data access tools with a new online tool. The WYNDD Data Explorer will combine and streamline the functionality of the two former tools. “This new web application allows users to view and download spatial data related ...