October

A new crowd management system will be put to use as the government attempts to ensure that a tragedy like last year’s Itaewon crowd crush does not happen again. The safety ministry announced on Thursday that the system will undergo a trial run from Friday to December 15, using mobile data to track crowd density ...

Un appel d’offres relatif au recensement et à l’expertise des bâtiments menaçant ruine au niveau de la préfecture d’arrondissements de Casa-Anfa a été lancé récemment, à l’initiative de l’Agence nationale pour la rénovation urbaine et la réhabilitation des bâtiments menaçant ruine. Concrètement, cette opération va permettre de recenser et d’expertiser un parc de 5.000 bâtiments ...

El Gobierno catalán, a través del Instituto Cartográfico y Geológico de Cataluña (ICGC), adscrito al Departamento de Territorio, y la Agencia Catalana del Agua (ACA) del Departamento de Acción Climática, Alimentación y Agenda Rural, impulsa el uso de imágenes de satélite radar y técnicas de inteligencia artificial para analizar la evolución de los acuíferos, detectar ...

El Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación otorgará un subsidio extraordinario por la suma de 80 mil dólares destinado a cubrir el costo del servicio de lanzamiento a órbita del USAT I, un pequeño satélite desarrollado por el Centro Tecnológico Aeroespacial de la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP). “La ...

MDA selected SpaceX to launch its Chorus next-generation Earth observation constellation, planned for launch in the fourth quarter of 2025. The mission will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket, MDA announced Wednesday. MDA CEO Mike Greenley said Chorus production is well underway. MDA announced the constellation in December 2021. It will build on the company’s ...

China is continuing to launch trios of classified remote-sensing satellites to low Earth orbit. A Long March 2D rocket lifted off into the night sky above the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China at 4:03 p.m. EDT on Oct. 23 (2003 GMT; 4:03 a.m. Beijing Time on Oct. 24). The China Aerospace Science and ...

Científicos de la Universidad de Málaga evidencian que los caballos son buenos indicadores para anticipar su aparición en humanos. Se trata de un patógeno emergente en España que se transmite de aves a personas a través de las picaduras de mosquitos. El virus del Nilo Occidental es un patógeno emergente en España que se transmite ...

Over the next few weeks, NASA aircraft will fly over South Africa’s Greater Cape Floristic Region and collect ultraviolet, visual, thermal and other imagery of its terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. These preliminary images will be publicly available and posted online here within hours of the aircraft landing each day. Combined with satellite imagery and field ...

Secretary of State Wes Allen announced last week that his office will provide Geographical Information System (GIS) services for the purpose of districting voters and administering elections in all 67 Alabama counties. Voters register with the county’s Board of Registrars and are mapped in the county’s precincts based on their address. “Alabama law states you ...

With a view to protect government land from encroachment in all 124 villages under its jurisdiction, the Greater Noida authority has decided to carry out a geographic information system (GIS) survey soon, officials aware of the matter said. “The survey will determine how much land has been grabbed in each village. After that, the authority ...

South Korean internet giant Naver said Tuesday it has secured a large-scale deal in Saudi Arabia to build a cloud-based digital twin platform for the kingdom’s futuristic smart city project. The deal signing ceremony was held in Saudi capital Riyadh on Monday upon President Yoon Suk Yeol’s state visit. Naver didn’t reveal the exact size ...

Lidar technology improvements will help NASA scientists and explorers with remote sensing and surveying, mapping, 3D-image scanning, hazard detection and avoidance, and navigation. Light detection and ranging, or lidar, is a remote sensing technology related to sonar and radar. Lidar uses pulses of light to measure distances and properties of objects accurately, by measuring the ...

A Japanese research team recently published a paper outlining an innovative approach to surveying using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones. The drones collect topographic and architectural data, which are used to create 3D computer-generated images. The researchers aim to enhance the method’s accuracy by fine-tuning the coordination of hardware and data. This ...

Septentrio has introduced two new open-source hardware projects available to integrators of satellite-based positioning. By expanding their ecosystem of open-source hardware and software, Septentrio aims to make reliable GNSS positioning more accessible to integrators and developers. The first project, mosaicBus, is a reference design of a board compatible with mikroBUS add-on board standards primarily used ...

Referred to as solar activity, ionospheric disturbances peak every 11 years. The next major disruption, Solar Cycle 25, is expected to peak between 2024 and 2026. Ionospheric activity can directly impact the quality of GNSS signals, leading to the degradation of position accuracy. While this type of disturbance has the greatest impact on high precision ...

On October 12, 2023, Department of City Planning Director Dan Garodnick announced that the NYC Street Map will now include access to the original street mapping of the City. Users can see the width, angles, and other dimensions of the City’s over 32,000 streets when utilizing the interactive map for requests to change their street, ...

El Ministerio de Transportes, Movilidad y Agenda Urbana ha firmado, a través del Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN) y el Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica (CNIG), un convenio con la Asociación Española de Geografía (AGE) para “asegurar la excelencia científica” del Atlas Nacional de España. Según el departamento dirigido por Raquel Sánchez, el objeto de este ...

Ever wonder where you were at an airport or transit station and needed to find your gate or a restroom? GoodMaps, based out of Louisville, Kentucky, is working on an app to use your smartphone’s features to help you find your place. GoodMaps will come to a venue like an airport or a transit agency ...

Google is temporarily disabling live traffic conditions on its mapping service apps, Google Maps and Waze, in Israel, the tech company confirmed Monday, as the country prepares for a potential ground invasion into Gaza. “As we have done previously in conflict situations and in response to the evolving situation in the region, we have temporarily ...

La producción de papa, uno de los tubérculos más importantes para la canasta básica diaria familiar de los colombianos, además de presentar desafíos como el incremento de los costos de transporte e insumos para su cultivo que afectan el bolsillo de los productores, es constantemente vulnerable a que la sobreoferta, producto muchas veces de la ...

Un enfoque que destaca la conservación de la diversidad floral natural como base para la alimentación de las abejas melíferas, es el que tiene el proyecto “Sensores remotos y apicultura natural regenerativa”, que desde 2022 desarrollan investigadores de INIA Quilamapu en la región de Ñuble. El investigador y director del proyecto, Marcelino Claret, indicó que ...

A new study, using a first-of-its-kind approach to analyze satellite imagery from boreal forests over the last three decades, found that fire may be changing the face of the region in a way researchers did not previously anticipate. Historically, fires in North American boreal forests have led to coniferous trees being supplanted by deciduous trees, ...

Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT, President Kim Byung-suk) has developed building scan to BIM (Building Information Modeling)-based reverse engineering technology required for 3D geospatial information modeling domains such as digital twin information modeling. Scan to BIM-based reverse engineering technology was studied to prevent errors and rework caused by manual work when ...

India’s foremost drone technology company, IG Drones, has forged a strategic alliance with iGiS, a Korean specialist in geospatial information-based drone solutions, announced during the prestigious North Star GITEX Global event. IG Drones and iGiS have formed a significant partnership through a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This collaboration aims to leverage their strengths for ...

The more the merrier. That common saying could be the motto for an effort within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to create a near real-time system that would track the safety and accessibility of our nation’s inland waterways. Taking advantage of vessels already on the water, an effort in the works at the ...

Monterey Bay, California, is known for its beaches. Big Sur in the north is a favorite destination among surfers, and Moss Landing in the south is a bird-watchers paradise. But just off the coast lies a stunning geographic landscape that few know about—and even fewer have seen with their own eyes. It’s called the Monterey ...

La secretaria de Estado de Defensa y presidenta de ISDEFE (Ingeniería de Sistemas para la Defensa de España), Amparo Valcarce, y el rector de la Universidad de León (ULE), Juan Francisco García Marín han firmado este jueves en el Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de la capital leonesa un Protocolo General de Actuación para impulsar ...

A summer vacation changed Candela Sancho’s life. After studying physics in Madrid, getting additional training in Barcelona and Toronto and spending six years at the University of Utrecht, she traveled with friends to northern Italy in 2018. Upon returning home to Spain, she found out about the collapse on August 14 of the Ponte Morandi ...

Cal Poly Humboldt students and faculty across various disciplines are embarking on an ambitious project to map out vegetation in the Klamath Mountains. This data will have many applications, including understanding how vegetation regenerates after fires, and how plant communities are being affected by a drying and warming climate. In the long term, this project ...

In the southwest of Colombia lies the department of Nariño, known for its majestic mountains that give rise to one of the world’s most excellent coffees, thanks to its unique qualities and characteristics. However, these same mountains represent a considerable challenge for agricultural supply chains in the region. In the scientific article entitled “Evaluation of ...