From the category archives:
News today that Trimble has acquired Belgium-based unmanned aerial vehicle maker Gatewing marks an important milestone in the commercialization of drone-based map data collection. There’s a growing interest in these low-cost mapping platforms, particularly given the FAA’s relaxation of laws that have prohibited their expansion in the United States. This continued industry consolidation by Trimble [...]
{ 3 comments }
The European Space Agency designed and developed, along with with Dutch company Cosine, a motorized tripod called NightPod to take nighttime images of the Earth. Prior to this device, the speed of the space station made picture taking difficult due to the speed of the Space Station and the low shutter speeds required to capture light [...]
{ 0 comments }
Mexico City has made available an earthquake application that sends alerts direct to phones as soon as a tremor happens. Aplicación Alerta Sismica del DF is tied to remote monitoring stations that detect and send signals up to a minute before the tremors reach the capital. The capital is plagued by earthquakes, with one or [...]
{ 0 comments }
A dynamic real-time wind map for the continental United States provides interesting insight into local weather by modeling data from the National Digital Forecast Database. The near-term forecasts are updated once per hour, and the site reflects trends in a mesmerizing way. The site was created as a personal art project by data visualization experts [...]
{ 0 comments }
The National Science Foundation has funded a five-year, $20 million research project led by the University of New Hampshire Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space that will take a detailed look at land-use in the state. The project will bring together researchers from across the state to assess the complex interactions of [...]
{ 0 comments }
There has been a great deal of maturity in the tools and approaches to sustainability problems over the past four years since V1 Magazine was launched. At the global and regional scale, we’ve seen an increasing application of sensors and systems to monitor, analyze and adapt to global change. At the local and city scale, [...]
{ 0 comments }
The French company ECO Counter has created and deployed sensor networks to count pedestrians and cyclists in urban and natural environments. The system is made up of three parts that include a sensor to detect pedestrians or cyclists, a data logger that saves detection data, and software to analyze and share the data. The system [...]
{ 0 comments }
This past week in London, scientists from a broad range of disciplines convened at the Planet Under Pressure Conference. Global environmental change was the topic of the event, with new integration of behavioral and social science into a research initiative dubbed Future Earth. The Future Earth initiative acknowledges the human domination of Earth systems or [...]
{ 0 comments }
Google is working with the University of Washington on an open source field data collection tool called the Open Data Kit that enables easy data collection. The system is based on Google’s Android system, with support in many languages. It supports GPS data collection, the integration of images from a phone camera sensor, the capture [...]
{ 1 comment }
