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The Wildlife Conservation Society has just released a report that raises alarm bells regarding threats to great American wildlife migrations. The society credits new GPS collars and geolocators for providing a much greater understanding of animal movements, as well as the impediments to their migration. Under threat are five terrestrial animal migrations and three flight-based [...]
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The Energy for a Green Society (ERG) project has received funding to develop wireless sensor networks to monitor and control energy consumption in buildings. The three-year and €25.7 million project will develop wireless sensor technology that can be commercialized in order to retrofit buildings with this smart technology. The effort ties with the European 2020 [...]
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The European Environment Agency (EEA), Esri and Microsoft launched the Eye on Earth cloud-based environmental data sharing network this week at the COP 17 meetings in Durban. The network will facilitate the sharing and discover of environmental data, both public and data provided by citizens. The network will both be a repository for this information [...]
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A Los Angeles Times story today indicates that the FAA is set to address regulations on the use of small drone aircraft early next year. The FAA to date has only allowed testing permits for civilian drone applications, citing concerns about the lack of technology to prevent midair collisions. There are also privacy concerns that [...]
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Over the weekend, NPR highlighted the work of researchers in Baltimore that are following addicts and their behavior very closely to track movement as well as the behaviors that coincide with their drug use. Researchers in the methadone program that serves addicts are studying specifically what makes addicts relapse with a smartphone program that requires [...]
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Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have been working on a hyperspectral sensor that can detect more than 1,000 colors to monitor and analyze contaminants to soil and water. Prof. Eyal Ben-Dor of TAU’s Department of Geography and the Human Environment says that reading this extensive spectrum of color allows the sensor to analyze 300 [...]
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The Integrated Marine Observing System is an array of connected technologies developed by Australian climate and ocean scientists to monitor nearly one-third of the world’s oceans. The network, which got its start in 2007 with initial funding of more than $90M from government and partners, takes measurements of physical, chemical and biological variables. The system [...]
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Recorded Future provides a new kind of search engine for online textual data that is mined for its context and then visualized – including a map-based view. The tools offer a means to gauge momentum and sentiment of evolving events, as well as to aid in prediction of what might unfold. The ability to mine [...]
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Technological advancements have made ground-based self-healing, self-forming, and self-configuring wireless sensor networks a viable option for monitoring missions. A wireless sensor network that Lockheed Martin calls the Self-Powered Ad-hoc Network (SPAN) is being deployed in the energy sector to monitor infrastructure such as pipelines. Their low energy use, and self-organizing mesh network, makes them ideal [...]
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Russia has been aggressively expanding their Glonass navigation satellite constellation, and will continue to expand from the 23 operational satellites they have now to a total of 30 by 2015. In this same time span the country also plans to increase the number of earth observation satellites from five to 20. The Russian space agency [...]
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