The urban environment we live in is more and more complex. Interrelations and dependencies as well as the effects of changes are becoming increasingly difficult to assess. In this framework, the Digital Twin Urban Pilot (DTUP) concept is of key importance: It allows to create an image of the reality on which one can effectively …
This collaborative tool on artisanal gold mining (ASM) and security will take the form of a secure web mapping platform. The prototype will include some layers of geographic information and various satellite images of ASM areas resulting from automated detection by artificial intelligence, and will propose spatialized indicators and analytics, for example on the evolution …
The Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation (AI4EO) Wildfires project began in December 2020 and run for 8 months, focussing on developing and demonstrating a burned area (BA) mapping service that combines EO data, specifically Sentinel-2 optical data, with an AI-enabled algorithm. The project consortium is led by CGI UK, utilising their legacy of developing cloud-based …
Infrastructures refer to the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or other area, including the services and facilities necessary for its economy to function e.g. public and private physical assets such as roads, bridges, railways, harbors, pipelines, airports, tunnels, etc. In order to insure their proper functioning, infrastructures together with their close neighborhood …
“Exploring New Frontiers” is the title of 2019 special event featuring both the GRSG (Geological Remote Sensing Group) 30th anniversary and Annual Conference, looking at past and future geologic remote sensing, especially focusing on both longwave infrared and radar / InSAR applications. A Special Geological Society Publication will be issued for the occasion. Call for abstracts …
Poverty is one of the chronic problems of the XXI century and, despite the recent decrease of global economic inequalities between and within countries, in 2016 about 800 million people still lived in extreme poverty condition, with many of them located in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia. In this context, poverty alleviation programmes generally rely …
