
The road to realising ESA’s Aeolus mission may have been long and bumpy, but developing novel space technology is, by its very nature, challenging. With the satellite now equipped with its revolutionary instrument, the path ahead is much smoother as it heads to France to begin the last round of tests before being shipped to the launch site at the end of the year.
Nová malá telekomunikační platforma ESA se vydala na svoji první kosmickou misi.
Nová malá telekomunikační platforma ESA se vydala na svoji první kosmickou misi.

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Do winter weather conditions have an effect on the accuracy and use of mass-market GNSS devices? To find out, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) asked the experts working in Antarctica.
The holidays are over and all we are left with is another couple of months of cold, wet and foggy winter weather. And there’s nothing worse than having to travel in winter weather conditions. Whether it’s walking to a meeting or driving across town, at least you can depend on global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), including Galileo, to help guide you to your destination along the most efficient route possible. All you have to do is plug the coordinates into your smartphone or in-vehicle navigation device, bundle up and head out – letting GNSS take care of the rest.
This is of course assuming that GNSS isn’t affected by the rain, snow, fog and dense clouds that define winter in much of Europe. After all, if the satellite signals are delayed or unable to reach the receiver in your device, you might just find yourself left out in the cold!
To get to the bottom of this, we asked some experts about the effect, if any, that the winter weather has on your use of GNSS devices.
If you really want to see how winter weather impacts the use of GNSS, there’s really no better place to conduct your research than Antarctica. Nicola Umberto, a researcher at Politecnico di Torino, recently travelled there to install a GNSS monitoring station – one of the first researchers to collect Galileo signals at high (and very cold) latitudes.
The DemoGRAPE project, funded by the Italian National Program for Research in Antarctica (PRNA), is a new prototype of support for satellite navigation in Antarctica. It includes an installed GNSS monitoring system at two research bases, which monitor the ionosphere behaviour, or space weather, over the continent and how it effects satellite signals. The project is being carried out in cooperation with the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology, the South African Space Agency and the Brazilian Space Agency, with the support of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC).
“The accuracy of satellite navigation in Antarctica is of paramount importance, both for logistic and for scientific purposes,” says Umberto. “There is always the danger that people and vehicles can fall into a crevasse during a snowstorm, when visibility is limited and travel is restricted to specified routes.”
GNSS high-precision applications in Antarctica – such as geodetic prospecting, land and glacier monitoring and airport traffic management – can be threatened by ionospheric scintillations, a physical phenomenon very similar to the one producing aurora. “Unfortunately, scintillations damage satellite signals, introducing amplitude and phase variations, which in turn impacts the quality and reliability of the position,” explains Fabio Dovis, a professor at Politecnico di Torino who is also involved with the project. “DemoGRAPE has contributed to the understanding of these threats to GNSS applications in polar regions and proposed new methods for optimising scientific and technological achievements.”
Granted most of us won’t be navigating through quite such extreme conditions, although at some point in the middle of February it might very well feel like we’re living in Antarctica. Nonetheless, the DemoGRAPE project’s findings are applicable to our everyday use of GNSS for navigating in more ‘normal’ winter weather conditions. “As so often happens in science, results of experiments in particular conditions, such as Antarctica, can be exploited to better understand and characterise general phenomena,” adds Umberto.
According to the experts, weather does not have a visible effect on GNSS. After all, GNSS was built to serve as an all-weather, 24/7 navigation tool. Furthermore, the vast majority of GNSS hardware currently on the market is built to operate in conditions down to -40 degrees Celsius; also the equipment is stored inside ground stations – with only an antenna mounted outside – meaning they protect against the most extreme levels of cold.
“What this means is a mass-market user will not experience any effects during winter weather,” says S2Ds Navigation and GNSS Data Science Fellow at Nottingham University Lukasz Bonenberg. “That being said, work in the high-precision sector, where centimetre level accuracy is required, can be affected by space weather.”
However, unless you’re a farmer using precision agriculture to tend to a field in the middle of winter, you probably won’t see any weather-related effects on your use of GNSS for basic navigation. Even if you do, for some reason, find yourself working a snow-covered field in February, you should be fine – as the effects of space weather are primarily confined to the Earth’s poles.
In other words, regardless of how snowy or cold it is outside, you can’t use ‘my GNSS is frozen’ as an excuse for not making that appointment!
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From a competitive field of submissions, the European GNSS Agency has awarded the 2017 Farming by Satellite Prize to projects coming from France, Kenya, the Czech Republic and Italy.
The European GNSS Agency (GSA) has announced the winners of the 2017 Farming by Satellite Prize. The top prize went to a project that proposes using satellite navigation positioning, satellite data and cover crops to address the issues of managing nitrogen levels and solving soil compaction in an environmentally sustainable way. The project, submitted by a team from ISA Lille (France), received their EUR 5 000 prize during the International Green Week in Berlin.
This year’s Special Africa Prize was awarded to the Shamballite project, submitted by a team from Kenya. They were awarded EUR 4 000 for their innovative idea for a mobile, satellite-based Farming Information System. “We hope to be able to bring the project to the next level,” confirmed Wawa Abe, one excited member of the team.
The second prize went to TTT Solutions from the Czech Republic for their web-based service providing temporal analysis, spectral indices, crop behaviour and control and support for the payment of subsidies. Third place was awarded to Glorify, a new forecasting system from Italy that combines Earth observation and crop modelling to provide both quantitative and qualitative estimates for rice production. The projects received prizes of EUR 3 000 and EUR 1 000 respectively.
“I want to congratulate the winners,” says European Commission Vice President for Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič. “This young community is very agile and ready to embrace new technologies, making it a great time for entrepreneurs.” The winners were selected from a remarkably competitive field: over 85 individuals and teams from 13 European and eight African countries registered for the contest. From these submissions, judges shortlisted seven, including projects from Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy and two from Portugal. For the Special Africa Prize, finalists included two projects from Kenya and one from Morocco.
Finalists were invited to come to DG Agriculture’s stand at International Green Week to make their final pitch in front of the judging panel (finalists for the Special Africa Prize made their presentations via video-link).
“The judges were particularly impressed with the high quality and professionalism of all the finalists, and in particular the ones from the Special Africa Prize,” says GSA Market Development Officer and member of the judging panel Reinhard Blasi. “It was both this professionalism and the project’s holistic approach to addressing a real challenge faced by Kenyan farmers that gave Shamballite the winning edge.”
“We really want to encourage tomorrow’s innovators to apply their talents to the agricultural sector, which is why we have supported the Farming by Satellite Prize since its first edition in 2012,” says CLAAS Head of Finance and Administration Christian Radons, one of this year’s sponsors. “With each edition we notice the submissions improving in quality and applicability – a great sign for the future of farming and food production.”
“There is a real opportunity to help farmers by using advanced technology in simple ways to better manage their business and to lower costs,” adds Bayer CropScience Digital Farming Technology Lead Alex Melnitchouck, whose company also sponsored this year’s prize. “This prize is an excellent way to raise awareness about these opportunities and to make them happen by tapping into the talents of young people.”
The Farming by Satellite Prize, which aims to promote the use of satellite technology in agriculture, is a joint initiative of the GSA and the European Environmental Agency. The prize is open to students and young farmers across Europe and Africa with innovative ideas for using satellite technology to improve agricultural production, efficiency and profit, or to reduce the sector’s environmental impact.
“For the young generation, the success of this Prize is proof that Galileo, EGNOS and Copernicus have several synergies in precision agriculture and we can count on future farmers to build on European space programmes,” adds GSA Executive Director Carlo des Dorides.
Media note: This feature can be republished without charge provided the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is acknowledged as the source at the top or the bottom of the story. You must request permission before you use any of the photographs on the site. If you republish, we would be grateful if you could link the article back to the GSA website (http://www.gsa.europa.eu).
Media note: This feature can be republished without charge provided the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is acknowledged as the source at the top or the bottom of the story. You must request permission before you use any of the photographs on the site. If you republish, we would be grateful if you could link back to the GSA website (http://www.gsa.europa.eu).
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has launched Intergraph InSight Explorer, a self-serve, web-based crime mapping and analysis application for law enforcement agencies. Intergraph InSight Explorer empowers agencies to discover, analyze and visualize complete crime, incident and operational data. With richer insight and clearer presentation of complex information, agencies can uncover trends and patterns that assist investigations and improve the allocation of resources.
Intergraph InSight Explorer allows analysts to search through and interpret large volumes of unstructured and structured data to make more informed decisions. The application displays data in map and tabular format with interactive widgets, charts and filters for in-depth analysis. It also speeds up the investigative process by allowing detectives and investigators to perform simple analysis, freeing analysts to concentrate on the most demanding tasks.
“A vital component to successful crime reduction is the ability to search through and analyze the vast amounts of available data to provide a solid basis for decision-making,” said Jack Williams, product manager, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure. “Intergraph InSight Explorer brings all this information together in one easy-to-use tool for analyzing the complete picture. With it, agencies can reduce the cost and burden of analysis and increase productivity. And with a clearer presentation of complex information, they can deploy resources more effectively and better inform their leadership, political stakeholders and citizens.”
Intergraph InSight Explorer leverages next-generation NoSQL search capabilities that unlock the value of unstructured text data -- such as modus operandi (M.O.) details, property descriptions and gang names -- found in narratives, reports and event remarks. When combined with the structured data collected in coded fields within records management systems and computer-aided dispatch systems, it delivers the context required to understand the complete picture.
By leveraging the power of Elasticsearch, Intergraph InSight Explorer supports organizations that need a big data solution. The software can easily process millions of records of structured and unstructured data from multiple, historically siloed sources and combine them into a single crime mapping and analysis application. By combining unstructured data, tabular results, fuzzy logic, geo-referenced data and non-XY data, it delivers a more complete analysis. Intergraph InSight Explorer provides out-of-the-box integration with Intergraph InPursuit WebRMS and Intergraph Computer-Aided Dispatch (I/CAD) and can be integrated with third-party data sources for unified access.
The global leader in public safety and security, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure helps protect 1 in 12 people worldwide. Hexagon’s public safety and security solutions improve the quality, accuracy and availability of critical information, increasing performance and productivity, while reducing the total cost of ownership for mission-critical IT investments.
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has launched Intergraph InSight Explorer, a self-serve, web-based crime mapping and analysis application for law enforcement agencies. Intergraph InSight Explorer empowers agencies to discover, analyze and visualize complete crime, incident and operational data. With richer insight and clearer presentation of complex information, agencies can uncover trends and patterns that assist investigations and improve the allocation of resources.
Intergraph InSight Explorer allows analysts to search through and interpret large volumes of unstructured and structured data to make more informed decisions. The application displays data in map and tabular format with interactive widgets, charts and filters for in-depth analysis. It also speeds up the investigative process by allowing detectives and investigators to perform simple analysis, freeing analysts to concentrate on the most demanding tasks.
“A vital component to successful crime reduction is the ability to search through and analyze the vast amounts of available data to provide a solid basis for decision-making,” said Jack Williams, product manager, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure. “Intergraph InSight Explorer brings all this information together in one easy-to-use tool for analyzing the complete picture. With it, agencies can reduce the cost and burden of analysis and increase productivity. And with a clearer presentation of complex information, they can deploy resources more effectively and better inform their leadership, political stakeholders and citizens.”
Intergraph InSight Explorer leverages next-generation NoSQL search capabilities that unlock the value of unstructured text data -- such as modus operandi (M.O.) details, property descriptions and gang names -- found in narratives, reports and event remarks. When combined with the structured data collected in coded fields within records management systems and computer-aided dispatch systems, it delivers the context required to understand the complete picture.
By leveraging the power of Elasticsearch, Intergraph InSight Explorer supports organizations that need a big data solution. The software can easily process millions of records of structured and unstructured data from multiple, historically siloed sources and combine them into a single crime mapping and analysis application. By combining unstructured data, tabular results, fuzzy logic, geo-referenced data and non-XY data, it delivers a more complete analysis. Intergraph InSight Explorer provides out-of-the-box integration with Intergraph InPursuit WebRMS and Intergraph Computer-Aided Dispatch (I/CAD) and can be integrated with third-party data sources for unified access.
The global leader in public safety and security, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure helps protect 1 in 12 people worldwide. Hexagon’s public safety and security solutions improve the quality, accuracy and availability of critical information, increasing performance and productivity, while reducing the total cost of ownership for mission-critical IT investments.
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has launched Intergraph InSight Explorer, a self-serve, web-based crime mapping and analysis application for law enforcement agencies. Intergraph InSight Explorer empowers agencies to discover, analyze and visualize complete crime, incident and operational data. With richer insight and clearer presentation of complex information, agencies can uncover trends and patterns that assist investigations and improve the allocation of resources.
Intergraph InSight Explorer allows analysts to search through and interpret large volumes of unstructured and structured data to make more informed decisions. The application displays data in map and tabular format with interactive widgets, charts and filters for in-depth analysis. It also speeds up the investigative process by allowing detectives and investigators to perform simple analysis, freeing analysts to concentrate on the most demanding tasks.
“A vital component to successful crime reduction is the ability to search through and analyze the vast amounts of available data to provide a solid basis for decision-making,” said Jack Williams, product manager, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure. “Intergraph InSight Explorer brings all this information together in one easy-to-use tool for analyzing the complete picture. With it, agencies can reduce the cost and burden of analysis and increase productivity. And with a clearer presentation of complex information, they can deploy resources more effectively and better inform their leadership, political stakeholders and citizens.”
Intergraph InSight Explorer leverages next-generation NoSQL search capabilities that unlock the value of unstructured text data -- such as modus operandi (M.O.) details, property descriptions and gang names -- found in narratives, reports and event remarks. When combined with the structured data collected in coded fields within records management systems and computer-aided dispatch systems, it delivers the context required to understand the complete picture.
By leveraging the power of Elasticsearch, Intergraph InSight Explorer supports organizations that need a big data solution. The software can easily process millions of records of structured and unstructured data from multiple, historically siloed sources and combine them into a single crime mapping and analysis application. By combining unstructured data, tabular results, fuzzy logic, geo-referenced data and non-XY data, it delivers a more complete analysis. Intergraph InSight Explorer provides out-of-the-box integration with Intergraph InPursuit WebRMS and Intergraph Computer-Aided Dispatch (I/CAD) and can be integrated with third-party data sources for unified access.
The global leader in public safety and security, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure helps protect 1 in 12 people worldwide. Hexagon’s public safety and security solutions improve the quality, accuracy and availability of critical information, increasing performance and productivity, while reducing the total cost of ownership for mission-critical IT investments.
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has launched Intergraph InSight Explorer, a self-serve, web-based crime mapping and analysis application for law enforcement agencies. Intergraph InSight Explorer empowers agencies to discover, analyze and visualize complete crime, incident and operational data. With richer insight and clearer presentation of complex information, agencies can uncover trends and patterns that assist investigations and improve the allocation of resources.
Intergraph InSight Explorer allows analysts to search through and interpret large volumes of unstructured and structured data to make more informed decisions. The application displays data in map and tabular format with interactive widgets, charts and filters for in-depth analysis. It also speeds up the investigative process by allowing detectives and investigators to perform simple analysis, freeing analysts to concentrate on the most demanding tasks.
“A vital component to successful crime reduction is the ability to search through and analyze the vast amounts of available data to provide a solid basis for decision-making,” said Jack Williams, product manager, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure. “Intergraph InSight Explorer brings all this information together in one easy-to-use tool for analyzing the complete picture. With it, agencies can reduce the cost and burden of analysis and increase productivity. And with a clearer presentation of complex information, they can deploy resources more effectively and better inform their leadership, political stakeholders and citizens.”
Intergraph InSight Explorer leverages next-generation NoSQL search capabilities that unlock the value of unstructured text data -- such as modus operandi (M.O.) details, property descriptions and gang names -- found in narratives, reports and event remarks. When combined with the structured data collected in coded fields within records management systems and computer-aided dispatch systems, it delivers the context required to understand the complete picture.
By leveraging the power of Elasticsearch, Intergraph InSight Explorer supports organizations that need a big data solution. The software can easily process millions of records of structured and unstructured data from multiple, historically siloed sources and combine them into a single crime mapping and analysis application. By combining unstructured data, tabular results, fuzzy logic, geo-referenced data and non-XY data, it delivers a more complete analysis. Intergraph InSight Explorer provides out-of-the-box integration with Intergraph InPursuit WebRMS and Intergraph Computer-Aided Dispatch (I/CAD) and can be integrated with third-party data sources for unified access.
The global leader in public safety and security, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure helps protect 1 in 12 people worldwide. Hexagon’s public safety and security solutions improve the quality, accuracy and availability of critical information, increasing performance and productivity, while reducing the total cost of ownership for mission-critical IT investments.
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has launched Intergraph InSight Explorer, a self-serve, web-based crime mapping and analysis application for law enforcement agencies. Intergraph InSight Explorer empowers agencies to discover, analyze and visualize complete crime, incident and operational data. With richer insight and clearer presentation of complex information, agencies can uncover trends and patterns that assist investigations and improve the allocation of resources.
Intergraph InSight Explorer allows analysts to search through and interpret large volumes of unstructured and structured data to make more informed decisions. The application displays data in map and tabular format with interactive widgets, charts and filters for in-depth analysis. It also speeds up the investigative process by allowing detectives and investigators to perform simple analysis, freeing analysts to concentrate on the most demanding tasks.
“A vital component to successful crime reduction is the ability to search through and analyze the vast amounts of available data to provide a solid basis for decision-making,” said Jack Williams, product manager, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure. “Intergraph InSight Explorer brings all this information together in one easy-to-use tool for analyzing the complete picture. With it, agencies can reduce the cost and burden of analysis and increase productivity. And with a clearer presentation of complex information, they can deploy resources more effectively and better inform their leadership, political stakeholders and citizens.”
Intergraph InSight Explorer leverages next-generation NoSQL search capabilities that unlock the value of unstructured text data -- such as modus operandi (M.O.) details, property descriptions and gang names -- found in narratives, reports and event remarks. When combined with the structured data collected in coded fields within records management systems and computer-aided dispatch systems, it delivers the context required to understand the complete picture.
By leveraging the power of Elasticsearch, Intergraph InSight Explorer supports organizations that need a big data solution. The software can easily process millions of records of structured and unstructured data from multiple, historically siloed sources and combine them into a single crime mapping and analysis application. By combining unstructured data, tabular results, fuzzy logic, geo-referenced data and non-XY data, it delivers a more complete analysis. Intergraph InSight Explorer provides out-of-the-box integration with Intergraph InPursuit WebRMS and Intergraph Computer-Aided Dispatch (I/CAD) and can be integrated with third-party data sources for unified access.
The global leader in public safety and security, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure helps protect 1 in 12 people worldwide. Hexagon’s public safety and security solutions improve the quality, accuracy and availability of critical information, increasing performance and productivity, while reducing the total cost of ownership for mission-critical IT investments.
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has launched Intergraph InSight Explorer, a self-serve, web-based crime mapping and analysis application for law enforcement agencies. Intergraph InSight Explorer empowers agencies to discover, analyze and visualize complete crime, incident and operational data. With richer insight and clearer presentation of complex information, agencies can uncover trends and patterns that assist investigations and improve the allocation of resources.
Intergraph InSight Explorer allows analysts to search through and interpret large volumes of unstructured and structured data to make more informed decisions. The application displays data in map and tabular format with interactive widgets, charts and filters for in-depth analysis. It also speeds up the investigative process by allowing detectives and investigators to perform simple analysis, freeing analysts to concentrate on the most demanding tasks.
“A vital component to successful crime reduction is the ability to search through and analyze the vast amounts of available data to provide a solid basis for decision-making,” said Jack Williams, product manager, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure. “Intergraph InSight Explorer brings all this information together in one easy-to-use tool for analyzing the complete picture. With it, agencies can reduce the cost and burden of analysis and increase productivity. And with a clearer presentation of complex information, they can deploy resources more effectively and better inform their leadership, political stakeholders and citizens.”
Intergraph InSight Explorer leverages next-generation NoSQL search capabilities that unlock the value of unstructured text data -- such as modus operandi (M.O.) details, property descriptions and gang names -- found in narratives, reports and event remarks. When combined with the structured data collected in coded fields within records management systems and computer-aided dispatch systems, it delivers the context required to understand the complete picture.
By leveraging the power of Elasticsearch, Intergraph InSight Explorer supports organizations that need a big data solution. The software can easily process millions of records of structured and unstructured data from multiple, historically siloed sources and combine them into a single crime mapping and analysis application. By combining unstructured data, tabular results, fuzzy logic, geo-referenced data and non-XY data, it delivers a more complete analysis. Intergraph InSight Explorer provides out-of-the-box integration with Intergraph InPursuit WebRMS and Intergraph Computer-Aided Dispatch (I/CAD) and can be integrated with third-party data sources for unified access.
The global leader in public safety and security, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure helps protect 1 in 12 people worldwide. Hexagon’s public safety and security solutions improve the quality, accuracy and availability of critical information, increasing performance and productivity, while reducing the total cost of ownership for mission-critical IT investments.
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has launched Intergraph InSight Explorer, a self-serve, web-based crime mapping and analysis application for law enforcement agencies. Intergraph InSight Explorer empowers agencies to discover, analyze and visualize complete crime, incident and operational data. With richer insight and clearer presentation of complex information, agencies can uncover trends and patterns that assist investigations and improve the allocation of resources.
Intergraph InSight Explorer allows analysts to search through and interpret large volumes of unstructured and structured data to make more informed decisions. The application displays data in map and tabular format with interactive widgets, charts and filters for in-depth analysis. It also speeds up the investigative process by allowing detectives and investigators to perform simple analysis, freeing analysts to concentrate on the most demanding tasks.
“A vital component to successful crime reduction is the ability to search through and analyze the vast amounts of available data to provide a solid basis for decision-making,” said Jack Williams, product manager, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure. “Intergraph InSight Explorer brings all this information together in one easy-to-use tool for analyzing the complete picture. With it, agencies can reduce the cost and burden of analysis and increase productivity. And with a clearer presentation of complex information, they can deploy resources more effectively and better inform their leadership, political stakeholders and citizens.”
Intergraph InSight Explorer leverages next-generation NoSQL search capabilities that unlock the value of unstructured text data -- such as modus operandi (M.O.) details, property descriptions and gang names -- found in narratives, reports and event remarks. When combined with the structured data collected in coded fields within records management systems and computer-aided dispatch systems, it delivers the context required to understand the complete picture.
By leveraging the power of Elasticsearch, Intergraph InSight Explorer supports organizations that need a big data solution. The software can easily process millions of records of structured and unstructured data from multiple, historically siloed sources and combine them into a single crime mapping and analysis application. By combining unstructured data, tabular results, fuzzy logic, geo-referenced data and non-XY data, it delivers a more complete analysis. Intergraph InSight Explorer provides out-of-the-box integration with Intergraph InPursuit WebRMS and Intergraph Computer-Aided Dispatch (I/CAD) and can be integrated with third-party data sources for unified access.
The global leader in public safety and security, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure helps protect 1 in 12 people worldwide. Hexagon’s public safety and security solutions improve the quality, accuracy and availability of critical information, increasing performance and productivity, while reducing the total cost of ownership for mission-critical IT investments.
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has launched Intergraph InSight Explorer, a self-serve, web-based crime mapping and analysis application for law enforcement agencies. Intergraph InSight Explorer empowers agencies to discover, analyze and visualize complete crime, incident and operational data. With richer insight and clearer presentation of complex information, agencies can uncover trends and patterns that assist investigations and improve the allocation of resources.
Intergraph InSight Explorer allows analysts to search through and interpret large volumes of unstructured and structured data to make more informed decisions. The application displays data in map and tabular format with interactive widgets, charts and filters for in-depth analysis. It also speeds up the investigative process by allowing detectives and investigators to perform simple analysis, freeing analysts to concentrate on the most demanding tasks.
“A vital component to successful crime reduction is the ability to search through and analyze the vast amounts of available data to provide a solid basis for decision-making,” said Jack Williams, product manager, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure. “Intergraph InSight Explorer brings all this information together in one easy-to-use tool for analyzing the complete picture. With it, agencies can reduce the cost and burden of analysis and increase productivity. And with a clearer presentation of complex information, they can deploy resources more effectively and better inform their leadership, political stakeholders and citizens.”
Intergraph InSight Explorer leverages next-generation NoSQL search capabilities that unlock the value of unstructured text data -- such as modus operandi (M.O.) details, property descriptions and gang names -- found in narratives, reports and event remarks. When combined with the structured data collected in coded fields within records management systems and computer-aided dispatch systems, it delivers the context required to understand the complete picture.
By leveraging the power of Elasticsearch, Intergraph InSight Explorer supports organizations that need a big data solution. The software can easily process millions of records of structured and unstructured data from multiple, historically siloed sources and combine them into a single crime mapping and analysis application. By combining unstructured data, tabular results, fuzzy logic, geo-referenced data and non-XY data, it delivers a more complete analysis. Intergraph InSight Explorer provides out-of-the-box integration with Intergraph InPursuit WebRMS and Intergraph Computer-Aided Dispatch (I/CAD) and can be integrated with third-party data sources for unified access.
The global leader in public safety and security, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure helps protect 1 in 12 people worldwide. Hexagon’s public safety and security solutions improve the quality, accuracy and availability of critical information, increasing performance and productivity, while reducing the total cost of ownership for mission-critical IT investments.
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has launched Intergraph InSight Explorer, a self-serve, web-based crime mapping and analysis application for law enforcement agencies. Intergraph InSight Explorer empowers agencies to discover, analyze and visualize complete crime, incident and operational data. With richer insight and clearer presentation of complex information, agencies can uncover trends and patterns that assist investigations and improve the allocation of resources.
Intergraph InSight Explorer allows analysts to search through and interpret large volumes of unstructured and structured data to make more informed decisions. The application displays data in map and tabular format with interactive widgets, charts and filters for in-depth analysis. It also speeds up the investigative process by allowing detectives and investigators to perform simple analysis, freeing analysts to concentrate on the most demanding tasks.
“A vital component to successful crime reduction is the ability to search through and analyze the vast amounts of available data to provide a solid basis for decision-making,” said Jack Williams, product manager, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure. “Intergraph InSight Explorer brings all this information together in one easy-to-use tool for analyzing the complete picture. With it, agencies can reduce the cost and burden of analysis and increase productivity. And with a clearer presentation of complex information, they can deploy resources more effectively and better inform their leadership, political stakeholders and citizens.”
Intergraph InSight Explorer leverages next-generation NoSQL search capabilities that unlock the value of unstructured text data -- such as modus operandi (M.O.) details, property descriptions and gang names -- found in narratives, reports and event remarks. When combined with the structured data collected in coded fields within records management systems and computer-aided dispatch systems, it delivers the context required to understand the complete picture.
By leveraging the power of Elasticsearch, Intergraph InSight Explorer supports organizations that need a big data solution. The software can easily process millions of records of structured and unstructured data from multiple, historically siloed sources and combine them into a single crime mapping and analysis application. By combining unstructured data, tabular results, fuzzy logic, geo-referenced data and non-XY data, it delivers a more complete analysis. Intergraph InSight Explorer provides out-of-the-box integration with Intergraph InPursuit WebRMS and Intergraph Computer-Aided Dispatch (I/CAD) and can be integrated with third-party data sources for unified access.
The global leader in public safety and security, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure helps protect 1 in 12 people worldwide. Hexagon’s public safety and security solutions improve the quality, accuracy and availability of critical information, increasing performance and productivity, while reducing the total cost of ownership for mission-critical IT investments.
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has launched Intergraph InSight Explorer, a self-serve, web-based crime mapping and analysis application for law enforcement agencies. Intergraph InSight Explorer empowers agencies to discover, analyze and visualize complete crime, incident and operational data. With richer insight and clearer presentation of complex information, agencies can uncover trends and patterns that assist investigations and improve the allocation of resources.
Intergraph InSight Explorer allows analysts to search through and interpret large volumes of unstructured and structured data to make more informed decisions. The application displays data in map and tabular format with interactive widgets, charts and filters for in-depth analysis. It also speeds up the investigative process by allowing detectives and investigators to perform simple analysis, freeing analysts to concentrate on the most demanding tasks.
“A vital component to successful crime reduction is the ability to search through and analyze the vast amounts of available data to provide a solid basis for decision-making,” said Jack Williams, product manager, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure. “Intergraph InSight Explorer brings all this information together in one easy-to-use tool for analyzing the complete picture. With it, agencies can reduce the cost and burden of analysis and increase productivity. And with a clearer presentation of complex information, they can deploy resources more effectively and better inform their leadership, political stakeholders and citizens.”
Intergraph InSight Explorer leverages next-generation NoSQL search capabilities that unlock the value of unstructured text data -- such as modus operandi (M.O.) details, property descriptions and gang names -- found in narratives, reports and event remarks. When combined with the structured data collected in coded fields within records management systems and computer-aided dispatch systems, it delivers the context required to understand the complete picture.
By leveraging the power of Elasticsearch, Intergraph InSight Explorer supports organizations that need a big data solution. The software can easily process millions of records of structured and unstructured data from multiple, historically siloed sources and combine them into a single crime mapping and analysis application. By combining unstructured data, tabular results, fuzzy logic, geo-referenced data and non-XY data, it delivers a more complete analysis. Intergraph InSight Explorer provides out-of-the-box integration with Intergraph InPursuit WebRMS and Intergraph Computer-Aided Dispatch (I/CAD) and can be integrated with third-party data sources for unified access.
The global leader in public safety and security, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure helps protect 1 in 12 people worldwide. Hexagon’s public safety and security solutions improve the quality, accuracy and availability of critical information, increasing performance and productivity, while reducing the total cost of ownership for mission-critical IT investments.
V pondělí 23. ledna bylo na mezinárodním agroprůmyslovém veletrhu Zelený týden v Berlíně rozhodnuto o vítězi třetího ročníku ceny propagující nové nápady pro využití družicových technologií v zemědělství nazvané Farming by Satellite Prize. V rámci soutěže se na druhém místě umístil team TTT Solutions z České republiky (Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci), který uspěl s projektem na zjišťování typu a vyhodnocování stavu zemedělských plodin s přesahem ke kontrole vyplácení dotací pro zemědělce (CDES), využívající data družice Sentinel-2 evropského programu pro dálkový průzkum Země Copernicus.
V pondělí 23. ledna bylo na mezinárodním agroprůmyslovém veletrhu Zelený týden v Berlíně rozhodnuto o vítězi třetího ročníku ceny propagující nové nápady pro využití družicových technologií v zemědělství nazvané Farming by Satellite Prize. V rámci soutěže se na druhém místě umístil team TTT Solutions z České republiky (Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci), který uspěl s projektem na zjišťování typu a vyhodnocování stavu zemedělských plodin s přesahem ke kontrole vyplácení dotací pro zemědělce (CDES), využívající data družice Sentinel-2 evropského programu pro dákový průzkum Země Copernicus.
Kontaktní čočky, brýle a oční implantáty jsou nyní vyráběny s větší přesností, a to díky přístrojům provozovaným na Mezinárodní kosmické stanici.
Kontaktní čočky, brýle a oční implantáty jsou nyní vyráběny s větší přesností, a to díky přístrojům provozovaným na Mezinárodní kosmické stanici.

The European GNSS Agency (GSA) is busy making plans for the next adventure in app building, and the new 2016 Galileo Hackathon video shows you what it’s all about.
Last year teams of passionate coders and geo-enthusiasts from around the world gathered to compete during the first GSA Galileo Hackathon. It was a great opportunity to showcase coding skills, connect with the Geo-IoT (Internet of Things) app development community, and gain a competitive insight on what Galileo location-based services (LBS) can bring to your mobile device.
The challenge: to come up with an innovative application that makes full use of Galileo’s unique capabilities in 24 hours or less. Following an energetic, busy and pizza-infused day, the judges announced the winners. Taking home the prize for the most innovative app was the Didactic Disco multi-player map game, described as “a fun map drawing game, but one that has potential for serious use too”. Meanwhile, the Rovers_Movers neighbourhood watch app won the prize for most potential to make an impact on society.
Now, you can relive all the excitement of the first Galileo Hackathon – while already starting to think about the next edition – with a new video:
1st Galileo Hackathon - watch the video here
If that video leaves you excited and ready to empower your app with Galileo, there’s good news! The GSA is already planning the next adventure in app building, scheduled to coincide with infoShare 2017, 17 to 19 May in Gdansk, Poland.
“We will again be bringing together chipset manufacturers, mobile device manufacturers, academia and the best Geo-IoT and LBS app developers to learn about how to leverage the benefits of Galileo and to compete in our second hackathon,” says GSA Market Development Officer Justyna Redelkiewicz Musial.
Hackathoners can expect prizes, webinars, learning opportunities and a chance to meet the people behind the hardware and software that enables satellite navigation and Galileo applications.
Interested in taking your location-based app to the next level? You can already pre-register here. And be sure to stay tuned for information on the next Galileo Hackathon.
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Ve dnech 18. a 19. ledna 2017 se v německém Oberpfaffenhofen uskutečnily 2. Česko-německé průmyslové dny, které uspořádalo Ministerstvo dopravy ČR spolu s Německým centrem pro letectví a kosmonautiku (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - DLR) a s podporou ESA BIC Prague. Celkem 60 osob zastupujících 37 českých a německých organizací, převážně z řad soukromých firem, se sešlo v prostorách centra DLR, aby iniciovaly nová témata vzájemné spolupráce na projektech s kosmickou tematikou.
Ve dnech 18. a 19. ledna 2017 se v německém Oberpfaffenhofen uskutečnily 2. Česko-německé průmyslové dny, které uspořádalo Ministerstvo dopravy ČR spolu s Německým centrem pro letectví a kosmonautiku (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - DLR) a s podporou ESA BIC Prague. Celkem 60 osob zastupujících 37 českých a německých organizací, převážně z řad soukromých firem, se sešlo v prostorách centra DLR, aby iniciovaly nová témata vzájemné spolupráce na projektech s kosmickou tematikou. PREZENTACE KE STAŽENÍ
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