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The Galileo satellite GSAT0224 entered into service on 29 August. The satellite is named ‘Shriya’, after a Norwegian grade school student who won the Galileo drawing competition organised by the European Commission and the Norwegian Space Agency.
The news comes after extended In-Orbit Testing that took place in January-March, followed by participation in the In-Orbit Validation (IOV) for EUSPA/ESA’s finalized testing campaign for I/NAV improvements in July and August 2022.
Having passed the initial tests, the satellite was deemed healthy and ready to join the Galileo family, and after IOV participation, it is now also ready for faster convergence improvements!
The previous Galileo satellite GSAT0223 entered into service in May 2022. While the two satellites may be orbiting some 23,000 kilometres above us, their service impact will be felt right here on Earth.
In a very practical sense, these additional satellites mean that whether using a navigation device in a car or on a mobile phone, you’ll now know your exact position with even greater precision and faster positioning than before. The new satellites also mean enhanced capabilities for the wide range of applications that depend on Galileo’s accuracy, including search and rescue missions, the eCall emergency response system and precision farming methods, to name only a few.
“The addition of these satellites to the world’s most precise positioning system is part of our continuous improvement logic for our more than 3 billion users worldwide,” says EUSPA Executive Director Rodrigo da Costa. “Not only do more satellites mean more availability, more robust navigation and a better user experience, it also means more market opportunities for European businesses, SMEs and entrepreneurs.”
GSAT0223 and GSAT0224 were part of Galileo launch L11 on 5 December 2021. The pair is the first of a third batch of Galileo first generation satellites to reach space, with GSAT0223 filling the last empty slot in Galileo’s orbital plane B and GSAT0224 flying in an auxiliary slot B15 as defined by the Open Service SDD.
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Trojrozměrné vizualizace měst dokážou výrazně zpřehlednit plánování rozvoje sídelní zástavby. Svůj vlastní 3D model si nechává připravit i Brno. Architektům, projektantům či investorům umožní jednoduší realizaci stavebních projektů, magistrát jej zase využije například při analýze krizových situací či pro podporu turismu. Plně dostupný však bude i veřejnosti. Tvorba trojrozměrné mapy je momentálně ve své třetí fázi. […]
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Trojrozměrné vizualizace měst dokážou výrazně zpřehlednit plánování rozvoje sídelní zástavby. Svůj vlastní 3D model si nechává připravit i Brno. Architektům, projektantům či investorům umožní jednoduší realizaci stavebních projektů, magistrát jej zase využije například při analýze krizových situací či pro podporu turismu. Plně dostupný však bude i veřejnosti. Tvorba trojrozměrné mapy je momentálně ve své třetí fázi. […]
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Plánovaná veletržní sezóna letošního podzimu v PVA EXPO PRAHA přinese i 11. ročník největšího středoevropského veletrhu autobusové dopravy CZECHBUS. Novinkou je souběžný veletrh SCTS – SMART CITY TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS, který se bude věnovat dopravní infrastruktuře chytrých měst. Termín konání obou akcí je 22. až 24. listopadu na nejmodernějším výstavišti v Praze, PVA EXPO PRAHA v […]
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Plánovaná veletržní sezóna letošního podzimu v PVA EXPO PRAHA přinese i 11. ročník největšího středoevropského veletrhu autobusové dopravy CZECHBUS. Novinkou je souběžný veletrh SCTS – SMART CITY TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS, který se bude věnovat dopravní infrastruktuře chytrých měst. Termín konání obou akcí je 22. až 24. listopadu na nejmodernějším výstavišti v Praze, PVA EXPO PRAHA v […]
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Over half of the world’s 8 billion people live in cities, a number that is expected to increase by over 70% in the coming decades. This is concerning because, just as the world’s urban population continues to increase, so too does the world’s average temperature – setting the stage for a potential catastrophe.
That’s because with this increase in temperature comes more frequent and extreme heat events which, due to the urban heat island phenomena, make cities particularly vulnerable to the impact of climate change. It also puts urban populations at a greater risk for suffering the sweltering and potentially deadly effects of heatwaves – a fact has been abundantly clear this summer. According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service’s (C3S) July Climate Bulletin, many parts of Europe, including Spain, Portugal, France and the UK, experienced intense heat, if not record-breaking high temperatures, during the month of July.
All of this means city planners are facing a sense of urgency for finding new ways to keep cities cool. As discussed in a recent article, one potential solution is to use the data generated by C3S to reconsider the layout of cities in an effort to mitigate heat-related risks.
One company doing exactly that is ECOTEN urban comfort.
The Prague-based company is taking a data-driven approach to designing greener, cooler and healthier cities. “By integrating science, data and technology into urban planning, we help make cities more resilient against the impact of climate change,” says ECOTEN co-founder and CEO Jiri Tencar.
Much of ECOTEN’s data comes from Earth Observation, including the Copernicus Programme. “Copernicus data is essential for measuring the urban heat vulnerability of a city as it provides high resolution information that can be uniformly obtained for any city in the world,” explains ECOTEN co-founder and CTO Sagnik Bhattacharjee.
By combining this Earth Observation data with available socio-demographic data, the company creates Urban Heat Vulnerability Maps. “These high-resolution maps provide city planners and other authorities with a real-time analysis of extreme heat vulnerability in a given urban area,” remarks Tencar. “Having ready-access to this information allows city officials to take immediate steps to protect citizens and infrastructure from a forecasted heatwave.”
In addition to helping city planners react to immediate heat threats, ECOTEN’s innovative heat mapping is also being used to mitigate future risks. For example, the company partnered with the city of Vienna to map the vulnerability of each of the city’s electoral districts.
What these maps revealed was that several heavily populated areas have an urban heat vulnerability index (UHVI) value of 0.9 on a scale where 1.0 implies a high vulnerability to an extreme heat event. The map also identified 10 ‘hot spots’, including areas with little to no green space or areas with a large concentration of young children and/or older adults, both of whom are at risk populations.
“For the first time, we have a map that shows us where cooling is urgent and allows us to take specific measures,” said Birgit Hebein, the former deputy mayor of Vienna.
City planners can now use this map, which was made possible thanks to Copernicus data, to adapt their urban planning to the realities of a warmer climate. In fact, the ECOTEN map is behind the city’s Cool Street project, an initiative that aims to turn down the heat at street level by, for example, planting more trees and reducing traffic.
Following the success in Austria, ECOTEN was soon contacted by the Environmental Protection Department of the City of Prague, who wanted to map the urban heat vulnerability of the city’s public transport stops. To create such a map, the company once again turned to Copernicus data, this time combining it with data on passenger wait times.
“This combination allowed us to create a tool that Prague can use to easily identify the specific areas that need attention and take steps to make these stops more comfortable for passengers,” says Bhattacharjee.
Using the ECOTEN provided heat map, the city has taken numerous steps to cool down hotspots. For example, a green lawn was planted on the roof of a tram stop, while draught-resistant plants, grasses and rock gardens have been placed across Prague. The city also installed misting devices and drinking fountains.
“The Urban Heat Vulnerability Map has already proved to be an important tool for making Prague and Vienna more resilient to climate change, and we look forward to adding more cities to this list soon,” concludes Tencar.
Other European cities confirmed this approach as being useful and efficient as ECOTEN urban comfort is now working on developing an Urban Heat Vulnerability Map of Helsinki, Finland.
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Vážené kolegyne, vážení kolegovia, dovoľujeme si Vám zaslať pozvánku a program medzinárodnej konferencie GeoKARTO 2022, ktorá sa uskutoční 8. – 9. septembra 2022 v priestoroch Prírodovedeckej fakulty Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave. Konferenciu organizuje Kartografická spoločnosť SR v spolupráci s Katedrou fyzickej geografie a geoinformatiky, Prírodovedeckej fakulty UK v Bratislave a Geografickým ústavom Slovenskej akadémie vied, v. v. i. Podujatie je […]
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Vážené kolegyne, vážení kolegovia, dovoľujeme si Vám zaslať pozvánku a program medzinárodnej konferencie GeoKARTO 2022, ktorá sa uskutoční 8. – 9. septembra 2022 v priestoroch Prírodovedeckej fakulty Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave. Konferenciu organizuje Kartografická spoločnosť SR v spolupráci s Katedrou fyzickej geografie a geoinformatiky, Prírodovedeckej fakulty UK v Bratislave a Geografickým ústavom Slovenskej akadémie vied, v. v. i. Podujatie je […]
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Three years. One could wonder, whether it is too much or too little time. But it depends. For example, in three years – baby could be born, could learn to walk, speak and start attend kindergarten. On the other hand, stalactite according to guides in caves grows just by 3 mm in three years or continent could move by like 6 cm in that time. Therefore, answer onto question whether three years are much on little time depends on the nature of event we observe in that given time. And if we focus onto scientific conference New Wave, we could easily say, that three years are rather too much.
You may be wondering, why are so obsessed with three years? Answer is simple. It is that much time since we met for the last time, before covid-19 pandemic hit our lives and ceased future iterations of conference. But pandemic is slowly fading away from our lives and that means just one thing. It time to meet again and prepare another edition of New Wave which will be organised again in Brno in the same location as was the last time back in 2019.
Therefore open your diaries and with thick black pen mark the date 26th of August 2022, because that will be the Day D. New Wave will be back and at this point we would like to kindly invite you to Department of Geography of Faculty of Science of Masaryk University. As usual, New Wave is aiming to be international student and early careen conference and although current edition of conference doesn´t have exact strict topic, we like to present this New Wave in “reloaded” branding as we all would again have to meet in person and share our work, research, ideas and most importantly see each other.
As New Wave 2019 started this tradition, in 2022 organisers will welcome contributions from various authors not only from geography but also from other sciences connected with space such as social studies or arts. If you are wondering what kind of contributions are welcomed, the range is wide – it could be papers, posters, maps or even some other more nonorthodox forms. The main aim of conference is to share each ones ideas and researches and to make sure, everybody can enrol, New Wave is still free of charge.
So, enrol now and we are looking forward to seeing you in Brno.
Three years. One could wonder, whether it is too much or too little time. But it depends. For example, in three years – baby could be born, could learn to walk, speak and start attend kindergarten. On the other hand, stalactite according to guides in caves grows just by 3 mm in three years or continent could move by like 6 cm in that time. Therefore, answer onto question whether three years are much on little time depends on the nature of event we observe in that given time. And if we focus onto scientific conference New Wave, we could easily say, that three years are rather too much.
You may be wondering, why are so obsessed with three years? Answer is simple. It is that much time since we met for the last time, before covid-19 pandemic hit our lives and ceased future iterations of conference. But pandemic is slowly fading away from our lives and that means just one thing. It time to meet again and prepare another edition of New Wave which will be organised again in Brno in the same location as was the last time back in 2019.
Therefore open your diaries and with thick black pen mark the date 26th of August 2022, because that will be the Day D. New Wave will be back and at this point we would like to kindly invite you to Department of Geography of Faculty of Science of Masaryk University. As usual, New Wave is aiming to be international student and early careen conference and although current edition of conference doesn´t have exact strict topic, we like to present this New Wave in “reloaded” branding as we all would again have to meet in person and share our work, research, ideas and most importantly see each other.
As New Wave 2019 started this tradition, in 2022 organisers will welcome contributions from various authors not only from geography but also from other sciences connected with space such as social studies or arts. If you are wondering what kind of contributions are welcomed, the range is wide – it could be papers, posters, maps or even some other more nonorthodox forms. The main aim of conference is to share each ones ideas and researches and to make sure, everybody can enrol, New Wave is still free of charge.
So, enrol now and we are looking forward to seeing you in Brno.
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London, (August 26, 2022) buildingSMART International is delighted to share the full list of finalists for The buildingSMART openBIM Awards Program 2022. Finalists will be invited to present their project…
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London, (September 6, 2022) buildingSMART International is delighted to share the full list of finalists for The buildingSMART openBIM Awards Program 2022. Finalists will be invited to present their projects…
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