March

Con el objetivo de formalizar y aprobar iniciativas de interés común para el período 2023-2024, se llevó a cabo la II Reunión de la Comisión Mixta de Cooperación Técnica y Científica, Educativa y Cultural entre Guatemala y Ecuador, informó el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Minex). La cita tuvo como propósito promover desarrollo ambiental, comercial y ...

The national statistical bureau is going to introduce a web application for supplying statistics based on GIS, aimed at ensuring easy access to data for all. The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) with the technical support of the Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) is developing the app, BBS joint director Md Rafiqul ...

FutureTales LAB by MQDC, a futurology research centre, is collaborating with ESRI (Thailand), a leader in location intelligence and geo-informatics with ArcGIS software, to set up the “Urban Hazard Studio” data hub to study Greater Bangkok’s flood risks. The hub will analyse, evaluate, and share information to alert people and society so all sectors prepare ...

To explore animal groups such as zebras or gelada monkeys, Ben Koger, Blair Costelloe, Iain Couzin, and other researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, the CASCB at the University of Konstanz, and Aarhus University developed a new method for collecting data about animal behaviour and the animals’ surrounding natural physical landscape using ...

El satélite Miranda pone a disposición del público más de 600 mil imágenes capturadas durante su década en el espacio ultraterrestre, como aporte a la investigación y educación, y parte de la iniciativa denominada Ciencia Abierta. De acuerdo con una nota de la Agencia Bolivariana para Actividades Espaciales (ABAE), ente adscrito al Ministerio para Ciencia ...

El Instituto Cartográfico y Geológico de Cataluña (ICGC), dependiente del Departamento de Territorio, impulsa el programa 3DCarrers para generar una réplica digital de las calles de los municipios catalanes, según ha informado esta mañana en un comunicado. Este programa facilitará a los técnicos el estudio de elementos como el arbolado que existe en un municipio, ...

The City of Peterborough has launched an interactive online tool to verify officially recognized addresses in the city. Created by the City of Peterborough’s geomatics/mapping division, the “myAddress Verification,” the tool verifies a property address and also ensures that additional units at a single address are accounted for. The city says official addresses are used ...

3D geospatial software company Cesium announces the release of “Cesium for Omniverse,” an extension that enables the 3D geospatial capability for NVIDIA Omniverse, a real-time 3D graphics collaboration development platform. Cesium for Omniverse is free and open source under the Apache 2.0 License. Cesium for Omniverse is free and open source under the Apache 2.0 ...

Brazil has ousted almost all illegal gold miners from the Yanomami territory, its largest indigenous reservation, and will remove miners from six more reserves this year, the head of the federal police’s new environmental crimes division said on Tuesday. Enforcement operations supported by satellite imagery and aerial photography have destroyed 250 miner camps – many ...

The California-based tech company is creating genetically engineered crops that can signal humans when they are attacked by pathogens, need nutrients, or feel stressed from drought. It is teaming up with Satellogic Inc. to begin developing a system to detect these human-engineered crop signals from space. A specially designed imaging instrument is scheduled to be ...

It’s easier than ever to view maps of any place you’d like to go — by car, that is. By foot is another matter. Most cities and towns in the U.S. do not have sidewalk maps, and pedestrians are usually left to fend for themselves: Can you walk from your hotel to the restaurants on ...

국립공원공단(공단)과 국토지리정보원(정보원)은 21일, 공단 본사(강원 원주시)에서 국립공원 보전‧관리 강화를 위한 공간정보 협력확대를 목적으로 업무협약을 체결했다. 이번 업무협약은 국가 보호지역의 보전․관리에 있어 국가공간정보 활용성 제고를 위해 추진되었으며, 협약식에는 공단 송형근 이사장과 정보원 조우석 원장이 참석했다. 공단은 정보원에서 제공하는 국토위성 1호가 촬영한 위성영상 등 고품질의 공간정보를 자연자원조사, 재난위험 안전관리, 기후위기 대응 등을 위해 공단에서 추진 중인 각종 ...

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, announces the use of its distributed processing capabilities by Sharper Shape to complete statewide utility corridor base maps. Last year, over eight million images were ingested in SimActive’s Correlator3D software to generate orthomosaics and colorized point clouds. Hosted on an Amazon cloud environment, Correlator3D allowed the acquisition ...

La technologie que va utiliser A-Bim pour analyser l’état des ports est la modélisation 3D. Parties immergées comprises. “Le niveau des océans va monter et la majeure partie des ports de la planète sera immergée. “Avec la technologie française que nous utilisons et qui n’existe nulle part ailleurs, nous amenons des informations sur trois axes ...

A plataforma SEIGEO, portal oficial de geoinformação da Superintendência de Estudos Econômicos e Sociais da Bahia (SEI), disponibiliza para os usuários dois novos aplicativos: o Storymap da Base Cartográfica de Referência do Estado da Bahia e o Mapa Interativo do Uso e Cobertura das Terras. As ferramentas serão lançadas em evento on-line, a ser realizado ...

En un trabajo en conjunto entre la Dirección de Desarrollo Agropecuario y GIS de la Dirección de Gobierno Digital, ambas dependientes de la Secretaría de Desarrollo Económico del Municipio, se desarrolló SIGE: un sistema que ubica cada tranquera existente de establecimientos rurales del partido, que asimismo incluye una serie de herramientas para que, de manera ...

An interactive map has been created by South West Water showing sewage releases around the coast. The WaterFit Live map is designed to share information about the region’s bathing beaches, location and performance of storm overflows, as well as the company’s plans to improve water quality. The government is making it mandatory for all water ...

In California, extreme heat and drought conditions now occur at regular intervals, drying out grassland, pine needles and other foliage, adding to the century-old tinderbox that stokes these enormous fires. However, the state is now harnessing a powerful tool to dampen the effects of these fires, namely artificial intelligence, and specifically machine learning. The abundance ...

The National Geographic Society launched the World Water Map as part of its five-year World Freshwater Initiative to better understand developing freshwater shortages around the world and inspire sustainable action. The Map was created by the National Geographic Society in cooperation with Utrecht University and Esri to identify water availability hotspots, visualize global freshwater supply ...

Przy okazji obchodzonego 21 marca Światowego Dnia Geodetów na dziedzińcu Zamku Królewskiego na Wawelu posadowiony został geodezyjny medalion oznaczający symboliczną krakowską oś świata: Axis Mundi Cracoviensis. To już kolejna inicjatywa Mariusza Meusa z akcji „Honorowy Południk Krakowski”, członka Stowarzyszenia Geodetów Polskich. Wśród jego licznych geodezyjnych projektów można wymienić chociażby wyznaczenie współrzędnych geodezyjnego środka Polski oraz ...

17 marca (piątek) w Akademickim Centrum Współpracy Transgranicznej Państwowej Akademii Nauk Stosowanych w Chełmie odbyła się konferencja „SmartCity Lab: Sektor publiczny, nauka i biznes dla rozwoju innowacji technologicznej w Polsce”. Zainicjowała ona projekt utworzenia w Chełmie SmartCity Lab- pierwszej w Polsce inicjatywy dla rozwoju nowych technologii. Organizatorami była ITS Polska i PANS w Chełmie pod ...

Con el objetivo de mantener informados a los conductores, transportistas y pasajeros que requieren trasladarse por las vías nacionales del país, el Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones (MTC), a través de Provías Nacional, presentó el Mapa de Alertas, que ofrecerá detalles sobre las 106 rutas alternas que pueden utilizar en esta emergencia climática. La ministra ...

The Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) has announced a new pilot program that aims to incorporate bus route maps into a geographic information system (GIS). This program will allow SLTB to effectively manage and monitor bus routes and schedules, thereby improving the quality of public transportation services in Sri Lanka. Through this pilot program, bus ...

The Thünen Institute now offers interactive forest maps through the Thünen Atlas (http://atlas.thuenen.de) that provide a nationwide overview of the stocked forest area—i.e., the area on which trees grow—and the dominant tree species. The digital maps have a resolution of 10m x 10m. The map of dominant tree species is based on data from the ...

In 2022, Terrer received seed grant funding from the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) to produce drought monitoring systems for farmers. The project is leveraging a new generation of remote sensing devices to provide high-resolution plant water stress at regional to global scales. Terrer and Wenzhe Jiao collect data from remote ...

Auf dem Geoportal des Bundes ist eine neue Karte aufrufbar. Die Karte stellt für jedes Schweizer Wohngebäude dar, wie viel CO2 unter Normbedingungen ausgestossen wird. Dies teilt das Bundesamt für Umwelt (Bafu) mit. Mit einem interaktiven CO2-Rechner kann demnach zudem simuliert werden, wie sich ein Heizungswechsel und energetische Sanierungen auf den CO2-Ausstoss auswirken. Die Karte ...

La Ville de Bruxelles a présenté vendredi sa stratégie de déploiement du digital à tous les étages de la vie collective à travers le concept de “smart city”, également dans le viseur de nombreuses villes européennes. La Ville de Bruxelles a présenté vendredi sa stratégie de déploiement du digital à tous les étages de la ...

El proyecto se titula “Africanos y sectores populares en la Argentina. Cartografía de la desigualdad, racialidad y género”. Es dirigido por la historiadora Florencia Guzmán y lo integran los antropólogos Lea Geler y Alejandro Frigerio, junto a siete investigadores e investigadoras provenientes de diferentes disciplinas. El equipo forma parte del Grupo de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos (Geala), ...

AirWorks and Nearmap have announced that Nearmap will join AirWorks’ newly launched data marketplace, AirWorks Automate. The marketplace is intended to be an ecosystem of geospatial data providers that aims to bridge the gap between data access, processing, and analytics, uniting it in a single platform. Through the agreement, AirWorks and joint Nearmap-AirWorks customers will ...

Developed by the Singapore Land Authority, the SLA App provides information that’s not available on normal maps. The map on the platform was designed especially for wheelchair users. The app was demonstrated at the Geo Connect Asia event in Singapore. Developed by the Singapore Land Authority, the SLA App provides information that’s not available on ...