January

Naukowcy z Instytutu Geodezji i Geoinformatyki UPWr pracują nad projektem DigiTwins4PEDs, który do modelowania aspektów energetycznych miast wykorzysta cyfrowego bliźniaka miasta. To krok w kierunku miast neutralnych pod względem emisji dwutlenku węgla i zrównoważonej przyszłości energetycznej. Badania finansuje Narodowe Centrum Nauki. Project „Utilisation of urban digital twins to co-create flexible positive energy systems for districts” ...

The City of Paso Robles is trying to make it easier for residents to get information about road conditions and future repairs in their neighborhoods. The new interactive street maintenance map application was developed after damage from last year’s storms. Residents now have the opportunity to check a street’s pavement condition index rating, the last ...

GNSS provide invaluable positioning data for countless applications, from everyday navigation to scientific research. Tropospheric delays, caused by the refractive properties of the atmosphere, significantly impact the accuracy of GNSS positioning. The standard practice of multiplying Zenith Tropospheric Delay (ZTD) by a Mapping Function (MF) to derive SPD operates under an assumption of atmospheric isotropy, ...

وحید مهدویان، معاون شهرسازی و معماری شهرداری اصفهان گفت: تهیه تصاویر و به‌روزرسانی نقشه‌های هوایی این کلانشهر پس از یک دهه به‌وسیله هواپیمای تخصصی پایش و نظارت بر اراضی انجام خواهد شد. برنامه ریزی لازم به‌منظور تصویربرداری هوایی و پوششی از کل شهر با استفاده از هواپیمای تخصصی مستقر در فرودگاه شهید بهشتی در سال ...

Dog attacks on sheep in Kerry in 2024 are to be mapped by Kerry County Council in an effort to identify the dogs and their owners. The Department of Agriculture is also being asked to employ its satellite tracking system in conjunction with the council maps, to help identify the out-of-control dogs. The move is ...

On January 18, 2024, Baidu (Google of China) and Huawei signed an ecological cooperation agreement focusing on navigation, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), and Huawei’s smart cockpit technology. The signing ceremony was attended by Huawei division General Manager Jin Yongfu and Baidu Vice President Shang Guobin. The collaboration aims to improve the navigation and travel ...

Omani company ETCO Space’s Aman-1 satellite published its first images on Monday of SOHAR Port and Freezone and the Western Hajar Mountains in the wilayat of Ibri. Aman-1 is the first Omani satellite to be launched into low Earth orbit for the purposes of satellite imagery, ground observation and remote sensing. Abdulaziz Jaafar, CEO of ...

In wildfire season, sometimes you can’t see the tundra for the trees. Most Northwest Territories communities facing any kind of wildfire threat are the ones in the boreal forest. For obvious reasons, the forest gets all the attention. That’s where the fuel and danger is. As a result, nobody has really been counting the tundra ...

French startup Kermap has developed a ‘digital twin’ of the Earth that claims to offer the most up-to-date views of our home planet. The programme is called Nimbo Earth Online and it is the only platform providing new satellite views of the world every month, without clouds. Google Earth refreshes its imagery every several months ...

Researchers led by Prof. Xie Chengjun and Associate Prof. Zhang Jie at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a novel deep learning-based method for satellite imagery. Their method, called the Frequency-Adaptive Mixture of Experts Network (FAME-Net), has been accepted for publication in the 2024 Proceedings of the ...

عضو هیات عامل و معاون امور دریایی سازمان بنادر و دریانوردی گفت: با اعلام کمیسیون هیدروگرافی منطقه دریایی راپمی و (IHO)، جمهوری اسلامی ایران به عنوان مسئول هماهنگ کننده تهیه داده های مورد نیاز استانداردهای جدید سری S-۱۰۰ در منطقه خلیج فارس، دریای عمان و بخشی از اقیانوس هند انتخاب شد بر اساس نقشه راه ...

Through the collaborative implementation of satellite-derived bathymetry (SDB), the Danish Geodata Agency and EOMAP are synergizing efforts to contribute to the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) Bathymetry partnership. Their shared goal is to seamlessly integrate SDB data into the Danish Depth Model (DDM). Harnessing cutting-edge satellite technology, this partnership aims to enhance the ...

Marine data provider XOCEAN recently deployed five uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) near the Isles of Scilly to collect bathymetric data on behalf of the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO). The USVs scanned the seabed, identifying features such as depth, habitats, ridges, boulders and shipwrecks. This marked the UKHO’s inaugural use of an external organization for seabed ...

What if there were a public health crisis facing a U.S. ally? And what if the U.S. and other governments and international organizations were called on to offer humanitarian support? At Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, three students with decades of experience in fields including data science, population health, and national security tackled ...

National spatial data infrastructure will be created in Belarus. The step is stipulated by the Council of Ministers’ resolution No.32 of 16 January 2024, BelTA has learned. The document has been published by the national legislation registry. It approves a regulation on the national spatial data infrastructure. The State Property Committee has been entrusted with ...

In 3D scene generation, a captivating challenge is the seamless integration of new objects into pre-existing 3D scenes. The ability to modify these complex digital environments is crucial, especially when aiming to enhance them with human-like creativity and intention. While adept at altering scene styles and appearances, earlier methods falter in inserting new objects consistently ...

When combatting complex problems like illegal poaching and human trafficking, efficient yet broad geospatial search tools can provide critical assistance in finding and stopping the activity. A visual active search (VAS) framework for geospatial exploration developed by researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis uses a novel visual reasoning ...

İzmir Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi (DEÜ) Mühendislik Fakültesi Jeoloji Mühendisliği Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi ve Deprem Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkez (DAUM) Müdürü Doç. Dr. Ökmen Sümer, İzmir iç ve dış körfezindeki tüm kıyıların ve koyun geometrisini çıkartıp, depremlerin tsunami etkilerini araştırdıklarını belirtip, sonunda oluşturulacak tsunami baskın haritalarıyla, risklerin azaltılmasına imkan sağlanacağını söyledi. Doç. Dr. Sümer, “Bu proje ...

Drei Jahre nach den letzten Aufnahmen hat die Stadt Bern neue Luftbilder der gesamten Gemeinde erstellt. Sie setzt damit eine Zeitreihe mit Aufnahmen von 1999, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 sowie 2020 fort. Die Luftaufnahmen wurden am 30. Mai 2023 gemacht und anschliessend zu einem Orthofotomosaik verarbeitet. Künftig dienen sie als Hintergrund- und Referenzdaten für Arbeiten ...

Déjà testée et approuvée au Suriname, l’application Terrastories est désormais en train d’être introduite sur le Haut-Maroni et Papaïchton, afin que les communautés Wayana et Aluku puissent cartographier leurs traditions orales sur des lieux qui ont une signification ou une valeur importante pour elles. Terrastories est une application mobile permettant aux communautés de cartographier, protéger ...

Onde estão as espécies do litoral brasileiro? Buscando conhecer melhor a biodiversidade marinha brasileira, o Programa BioGeoMar acaba de lançar a campanha de ciência cidadã BioBlitz Verão 2024. Nela, o público é convidado a explorar, identificar e registrar a vida dentro e fora da água, sejam animais ou plantas, encontrados em praias, mergulhos ou em ...

It’s become obvious that it’s going to be super complicated for states to define the bidding areas for Broadband Equity, Access & Deployment (BEAD) grants. Some states may define bid areas by census blocks, school districts or some other defined geography or cluster. But other states may go with a “free-for-all” approach, allowing bidders to ...

Monitoring deforestation across millions of hectares of Amazonian jungle has always been an onerous ask. When illegal logging first became an issue, the authorities relied on word-of-mouth and reports from indigenous communities, before buzzing the jungle in small planes to find the deforested areas. In the 1980s the first satellite images became available, with resolution ...

Sustainable water management is an increasing concern in arid regions around the world, and scientists and regulators are turning to remote sensing tools like OpenET to help track and manage water resources. OpenET uses publicly available data produced by NASA and USGS Landsat and other satellite systems to calculate evapotranspiration (ET), or the amount of ...

«عادل پیغامی» مدیرعامل سازمان منطقه آزاد قشم به همراه جمعی از مدیران این سازمان ضمن دیدار با «حسن سالاریه»، معاون وزیر و رئیس سازمان فضایی ایران از مرکز فضایی قشم سازمان فضایی ایران بازدید کردند. در نشستی که واسطه این دیدار برگزار شد، ضمن بیان جزئیات مربوط به فعالیت‌ها و ماموریت‌های مرکز فضایی قشم، طرح‌های ...

Nearly 75% of the U.S. could experience damaging earthquake shaking, according to a recent U.S. Geological Survey-led team of more than 50 scientists and engineers. This was one of several key findings from the latest USGS National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM). The model was used to create a color-coded map that pinpoints where damaging earthquakes ...

GPS makes it possible to navigate the globe with relative ease, but tunnels have long been a sore spot for apps like Google Maps. But, widely available now, Google Maps now supports Bluetooth beacons to fill in the gap left by tunnels. Bluetooth beacons are not really a new idea. Google-owned Waze has supported the ...

Un estudio realizado por investigadores del grupo Materiales Avanzados para la Producción y Almacenamiento de Energía de la Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) muestran que se pueden evitar hasta 1377 toneladas/año de fertilizantes nitratos y se puede reducir el uso de agua hasta 27 Hm3/año, dependiendo del escenario seleccionado integrando módulos solares con tecnología fotovoltaica ...

Mapbox, a global company in location technology, announces its collaboration with Hyundai Autoever, an automotive software innovation leader of the Hyundai Motor Group. Together, Mapbox and Hyundai Autoever are set to redefine the driving experience by developing an AI-powered digital ecosystem centred around Mapbox MapGPT, a location-intelligent AI voice assistant capable of natural and actionable ...

Septentrio has introduced the AntaRx smart antenna, catering to machine automation needs in industries such as construction, precision agriculture, and logistics. The smart antenna is housed in a rugged casing, designed to endure shocks and vibrations in challenging industrial environments. The multi-frequency receiver aims for high-accuracy RTK positioning down to the centimeter level. The AntaRx ...