January

The perplexing patches of light-colored ocean are sometimes noticed in other oceans and lakes worldwide, but in the Bahamas, they pop up more often than usual. Direct sampling of the cloudy waters suggests they contain high concentrations of carbonate-rich particles. Much of the Bahama archipelago sits on a submerged platform of carbonate known as the ...

Puma-X a l’ambition de faciliter la communication entre tous les outils de gestion de crise, des prévisions météorologiques aux automates d’appel. L’outil a été testé par la ville de Cannes au mois de janvier. L’outil dispose d’un PCS dynamique couplé à la cartographie 3D, d’un traitement en temps réel des données structurées et non structurées ...

“Gracias al desarrollo del concepto ‘geoblockchain’ se podrá mejorar significativamente la trazabilidad integral de mercancías, agilizar procesos asociados, mejorar rendimientos productivos y aumentar la competitividad de las empresas, contribuyendo con ello a la sostenibilidad y eficiencia de la distribución de mercancías”, Ramón García, director general del Centro de Innovación para la Logística y Transporte de ...

HERE Technologies, a location data platform, announced its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud platform. This collaboration will deliver improved performance for indoor and outdoor positioning capabilities, enabling AWS third-party developers to track and manage internet-of-things (IoT) devices. HERE Positioning enables developers to switch between different localizing technologies, and it relies exclusively on ...

»Wenn man von der Kälte in einen warmen Raum kommt, kann die Brille beschlagen und somit die Sicht des Brillenträgers stark einschränken«, sagt Anne Gärtner. »Das Gleiche kann auch bei Sensoren wie den LiDAR-Systemen in autonom fahrenden Autos passieren. Hier ist es wichtig, dass die Oberflächen auch bei Beschlag hochtransparent bleiben, damit die Funktionalität erhalten ...

H.E. Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, said: “The project will undertake a comprehensive study on choosing advanced technologies to build a 3D model and an inclusive map of geospatial data on infrastructure and service lines below the ground, integrating all the precise details within a single source of information. The study will ...

Esri India and the TEXMiN Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a Geospatial Excellence Center at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad. Esri India is the nation’s top provider of Geographic Information System (GIS) Software & Solutions. The research and innovation in spatial analytics & remote sensing ...

It’s hard out there for a shark. A critical barometer to the health of ocean ecosystems, shark and ray populations have faced significant global declines from overfishing, habitat loss, and environment degradation. Add to the mix a slow reproductive cycle and the broader logistical challenges of trying to monitor animals with ranges that can exceed ...

L’Istituto Geografico Militare portò a termine alla fine degli anni ’90, l’impianto delle famose “tavolette” che, nella scala 1:25.000, hanno rappresentato il riferimento cartografico per l’intero territorio italiano sin dall’unità d’Italia. Per il suo carattere fortemente dinamico il territorio alla base della Carta Topografica d’Italia, ha subito molte variazioni che, oltre alle adozioni di diversi ...

El proyecto se orienta a establecer un instrumento de gestión y planificación territorial que pueda ser traducido a una herramienta de política pública, a través de un modelo de zonificación del área urbana del Dpto. Caucete y sus alrededores. Haciendo énfasis en una mirada integral, y sin perder de vista las particularidades que pueden presentar ...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce the formation of the OGC Geo For Metaverse Domain Working Group (DWG), which will serve as a forum for the collective geospatial expertise of the OGC community to gather to help build and grow the open Metaverse. The group is open to OGC Members and non-members ...

Like the Amazon, Cleethorpes Saltmarsh is a spectacular landscape that supports a rich variety of plants, birds and other creatures. It also captures and stores polluting carbon dioxide – more so than an area of rainforest the same size. North East Lincolnshire Council has created a new immersive story map to tell the remarkable story ...

In response to recent disaster declarations throughout California, Topcon Positioning Systems is offering free access to its global navigation satellite system (GNSS) correction services network to essential emergency response agencies and personnel in designated disaster areas. “The challenge for a lot of these companies, services and agencies that come into disaster areas is they don’t ...

With illegal hoarding and advertisements emerging a big menace in the capital city, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is working on developing a GIS-based integrated portal and mobile application to regulate display of advertisements effectively and increase revenue generation. Accordingly, the corporation has sought request for proposal (RFP) from stakeholders to finalise the agency and ...

Intact forests are important climate regulators and harbors of biodiversity, but they are rapidly disappearing. Agriculture is commonly considered to be the major culprit behind forest loss, but the authors of a new paper published on January 20 in the journal One Earth show that agriculture isn’t solely to blame. The researchers used multi-source geographic ...

For a feasibility study, Mirjana Bevanda, together with Antonio Castañeda and other colleagues, imaged the Neue Universität on Sanderring and parts of Würzburg’s Ringpark with drones in 2022. Lidar, a form of three-dimensional laser scanning, as well as thermal and multispectral sensors were used. The latter capture five to ten wavelengths of light and thus ...

It isn’t immediately clear how using only a WiFi signal to track human movement through walls improves personal privacy … but that’s what a new study from Carnegie Mellon University claims. In a recently published paper, the researchers expanded on the study of employing WiFi signals to map human movement, especially in low-light situations that ...

El departamento de cartografía del INEC levantó un total de 183,487 mapas para estos Censos de Población y Vivienda utilizando tecnología satelital georreferenciada, obtenida a través del Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para las Poblaciones (UNFPA), como base para la validación de elementos naturales (hidrografía, islas, cuerpos de aguas) y culturales (red vial, caminos y ...

Telespazio und die DLR Gesellschaft für Raumfahrtanwendungen (DLR-GfR) mbH haben eine Vereinbarung zur Erneuerung ihrer Partnerschaft für Betrieb und Management des Galileo-Satellitensystems unterzeichnet. Die Vereinbarung gilt für kommende Jahre und Satellitengenerationen. spaceopal, ein Gemeinschaftsunternehmen, das zu gleichen Teilen von Telespazio und der DLR-GfR gehalten wird, soll laufende und zukünftige Aufgaben weiterführen. spaceopal ist seit 2016 ...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is Calling For Participants in the OGC Disaster Pilot 2023. Funding is available. Responses are due by February 17, 2023. The goal of the Disaster Pilot 2023 is to further improve the ability of key decision makers and responders to discover, manage, access, qualify, share, and exploit location-based information in ...

Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, announced its latest solution for utility and excavation professionals. The new Leica DD175 utility locator and Leica DA175 signal transmitter complement the existing Leica DD100 series and help operators easily detect underground utilities to ensure site workers’ safety. Locating the position of underground cables and pipes before excavation is paramount ...

Intermap Technologies announced the development of a flood modelling initiative and enhanced Digital Elevation Model (DEM) datasets in Thailand. Using a combination of satellite imagery, radar data and ancillary inputs, Intermap will create an extensive, detailed flood map and precision elevation model for the greater Bangkok area. Bangkok itself is sinking due to urban development ...

A new study published today in Science Advances combines a decade’s worth of satellite vessel tracking data with identification information from more than 40 public registries to determine where and when vessels responsible for most of the world’s industrial fishing change their country of registration, a practice known as “reflagging”, and identify hotspots of potential ...

By leveraging TomTom Maps, Points of Interest, 7-digit postal codes, address points, and Routing API, Melissa provides a best-of-breed address engine critical to business needs worldwide. Multi-language and multi-format support is key to postal addressing, as not every country is alike. TomTom ingests country data into one global standardized dataset, while supporting multiple languages. They ...

Lava and smoke shine brightly in a fresh satellite image of an erupting Hawaiian volcano. Kilauea, based on Hawaii’s Big Island nearby the volcano Mauna Loa, has been erupting again since Jan. 5 and its fresh activity glows in a Landsat 8 satellite image taken on Jan. 11. Activity extending from September 2021 to December ...

Esri India, country’s leading Geographic Information System (GIS) Software & Solutions provider, today unveiled Policy Maps to facilitate data-driven policymaking in India. The announcement was made during Esri India’s annual flagship event, the User Conference. The objective of developing Esri India Policy Maps is to foster data-driven decision-making in policymaking. The Policy Maps have been ...

SpaceX launched its fourth mission of the year, a GPS-III satellite for the US Space Force, on Wednesday, Jan. 18. The launch saw a Falcon 9 rocket lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:24 EST (12:24 UTC). The payload for this mission is Global Positioning System ...

Dobra komunikacja i sprawne przemieszczanie po mieście często decydują o jakości życia. Wrocław twierdzi, że jako pierwsze miasto w Polsce ocenił dostępność komunikacyjną w zależności od lokalizacji. Mapa dostępności komunikacyjnej nazwana też „zielonym pająkiem Wrocławia” od wtorku 17 stycznia dostępna jest dla każdego. Wyniki analizy poznać mogą zarówno mieszkańcy jak i inwestorzy. Mapa wykonana została ...

Trimble is working with the University of British Columbia (UBC) to establish a state-of-the-art Trimble Technology Lab at UBC’s Forest Sciences Center. UBC is a global center for teaching, learning and research, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world. The new lab at UBC will be the first forestry-focused lab for ...

Interior scanning of structures that have ceiling tiles, like grocery stores, presents a challenge for efficiency and accuracy for surveyors. Bowman took on this challenge to develop a new and proven technique that is simple, elegant, accurate, and most of all, repeatable in other environments. Prior to developing this technique, ground level 3-D scanning in ...