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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Una vera e propria ‘strada intelligente’ dove migliorare la sicurezza, i flussi di traffico e il comfort di guida, con benefici anche in termini di risparmio energetico e sostenibilità. È la Smart Road che ENEA ha realizzato nel Centro Ricerche Casaccia (Roma), nell’ambito del programma “Ricerca di Sistema Elettrico” (RSE) finanziato dal Ministero dell’Ambiente e ...

The Australian Government’s Exploring for the Future program is continuing to deliver for the resources industry with the release of a new tool to support the discovery of minerals critical to the net zero transformation. The Heavy Mineral Map of Australia, developed by Geoscience Australia in collaboration with Curtin University, has been created using heavy ...

Dorset Council has highlighted the role of interactive digital maps in a successful trial of an approach to optimise home care around the county. It has used the maps in a pilot project in which it worked with the Dorset Care Association, Home Care Forum and providers to reduce the average waiting time for a ...

The U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Embassy Ghana, and the University of Mining and Technology (UMaT), Tarkwa are convening mining stakeholders from across Ghana to brainstorm tech-enabled solutions to illegal mining. As part of “Tech Camp Takoradi” this week, fifty stakeholders including representatives of mining communities and companies, scientists and innovators, policymakers, environmental activists, ...

When the Cold War grew chillier around 1950, the U.S. military worried about a communist land invasion of the United States. So pilots were employed – many of them veterans of World War II – to photograph the entire country using aircraft. This 70-year-old archive of overlapping photos was taken at different angles, providing topographic ...

A new online map has been created to show where contaminated rain water from roads is polluting rivers in London. Environmental charity Thames21 has launched the site to help local authorities, as well as local communities, identify problem areas. Thames21 said contaminated run-off was caused by oil spills and tyre wear on the roads which ...

Luísa desenvolveu métodos de aprendizagem de máquina, principalmente as Redes Neurais Artificiais. Chamadas de RNA, são técnicas computacionais que apresentam um modelo matemático inspirado na estrutura de organismos inteligentes que adquirem conhecimento através da experiência. “São instrumentos que modelam as precipitações antecedentes a esses desastres”, conta ela, que usou como referência a geomorfologia da Serra ...

Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Öğretim Üyesi Doç. Dr. Alperen Coşkuner, orman yangınlarını, LİDAR olarak bilinen lazer tarama teknolojisi ile belirlenebileceğini, bu alanda yaptıkları ilk araştırmaların yüksek doğrulukta sonuçlar verdiğini bildirdi. Orman yangınlarıyla mücadelede başarılı olabilmek, yangın risk ve tehlike potansiyeli ile yangın davranışı hakkında doğru ve hızlı bilgi verebilen kapsamlı sistemlerin varlığıyla mümkün olabilirken bu sistemlerin ...

As cornfields suffer crop damage caused by weather, corn producers can use geospatial and remote sensing technologies to get a more accurate measurement of the damage and estimate potential economic loss, according to a recent study published in Frontiers in Agronomy. In the study, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) ...

A group of researchers led by China’s Nanjing University has created a global-scale inventory map to determine the spatio-temporal distribution of floating photovoltaics. “Existing statistical reports on water-surface photovoltaics (WSPV) only provide aggregated summary statistics but lack spatiotemporal information, which hinders the environmental assessment and policy management,” the research’s lead author, Shanchuan Guo, told pv ...

Azercosmos and Bayanat company of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed a cooperation agreement. According to the agreement, the parties will cooperate in the area of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This includes promoting potential projects and opportunities for the acquisition, processing and application of remote sensing data, geospatial data capabilities, experience and knowledge sharing. ...

If you’ve been wondering what climate change means for your neighborhood, you’re in luck. The most detailed interactive map yet of the United States’ vulnerability to dangers such as fire, flooding, and pollution was released in early October by the Environmental Defense Fund and Texas A&M University. The fine-grained analysis spans more than 70,000 census ...

A Prefeitura de São Paulo está levando a dez cidades ibero-americanas seu conhecimento na utilização de georreferenciamento de dados e a sua contribuição para o incentivo de políticas públicas. As cidades participam de um workshop on-line, que teve a primeira aula realizada nesta terça-feira (10) com o tema “Geoprocessamento de Dados para o Planejamento Urbano”. ...

The city of Greenville has unveiled an ambitious, one-of-a-kind app to increase access for all. For the past two years, city staff has partnered with the Barbara Stone Foundation to create an accessibility app for downtown. ‘“Greenville has so much to offer,” said risk manager and ADA coordinator Mike Jank. “We want to make sure ...

VertiGIS, a worldwide leader in spatial asset management solutions and geographic information system (GIS) software is proud to announce the latest addition to the new VertiGIS Networks product line: VertiGIS Network Locator. This innovative locates solution for underground utilities revolutionizes the way companies handle the demand of 811, Call-Before-You-Dig and One-Call responses with efficiency and ...

Publiée ce 4 octobre, la deuxième édition de l’atlas “Cartographier l’anthropocène” réalisée par l’Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN) aborde la question de l’occupation des sols face au changement climatique. Histoire, aménagement du territoire, environnement : la thématique est déclinée sous trois angles. Après une première édition sortie il y a un an, ...

Consultant Card Geotechnics (CGL) has applied aerial laser surveying to pinpoint natural hazards on development sites across the UK. CGL is using geospatial data from aerial survey and geographic data company Bluesky. The data has formed part of the investigation stage on projects ranging from proposed residential developments to long, linear overhead powerlines. High-resolution aerial ...

In August, when heavy rain hit parts of Chile, tens of thousands of people had to evacuate their homes as their communities flooded. Many got a warning a couple of days in advance, thanks to a tool from Google called Flood Hub that rolled out in the country earlier this year. Before Flood Hub existed, ...

WaPOR, as it is widely known, is expanding its geospatially driven coverage to the whole world, following six years of successful use in Africa and the Near East. The new and improved version was launched today at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) at the 2nd Rome Water Dialogue and on ...

For millions of Los Angeles-area motorists, the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area flashes by in an instant — a tattered oasis of wetlands, sycamore and oak that punctuates the monotonous sprawl of industrial parks, cinder-block sound walls and residential cul-de-sacs along the 60 Freeway and Rosemead Boulevard. But to Andrew Salas, chairman of the Gabrieleño-Kizh tribe, ...

República Dominicana y Cuba exploran vías de intercambio y colaboración para impulsar los Atlas de Riesgo Climático de ambos países, basándose en las capacidades y fortalezas que cada uno de ellos ha desarrollado en materia de observación geoespacial; recolección y sistematización de datos; y desarrollo de las plataformas tecnológicas. “Cuba ha desarrollado y actualiza cada ...

A model that incorporates demographic and smoking history data has identified regions populated with individuals eligible for lung cancer screening, according to study results presented at the CHEST annual meeting. “Geospatial techniques allow us to look at population-level trends as part of identifying next steps in lung cancer screening outreach and resource planning,” Christine Lambert, ...

As the impacts of climate change increase and intensify around the world, one aspect that has become clear is the geographic nature of the issue. The ability to tackle such a wide-reaching geographic challenge requires technology that gives context, which location intelligence provides. To support the individuals working toward this goal, Esri, the global leader ...

Cuando un río se desborda, inunda los terrenos que lo rodean provocando numerosos daños y situaciones de peligro. La Directiva Europea de Inundaciones regula, entre otras materias, qué se puede cultivar, edificar o programar en las vegas de los ríos con la intención de minimizar los efectos indeseados de un desbordamiento. Un equipo de investigadores ...