|
Written by Andreas Hergert
|
 The Free State of Saxony in Germany has been developing a forest management system that has evolved into the Saxon Forest Geographical Information System (FGIS). The system not only supports forestry but it integrates tightly into the wider Saxony Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). Both government agencies and citizens can access the system, sharing information and collaborating together. As a state-of-the-art forest and SDI development, this system is now looking to expand its GIS capabilities in other innovative ways.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Jessica Wyland
|
 How do we retrace our ecological footprints? Where
will the footprints lead? Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center
(WHRC) are tracking carbon footprints across the globe starting with
U.S. forests. One ongoing study, using geographic information system
(GIS) technology, is measuring the carbon-rich biomass in heavily
wooded areas to indicate the effect that deforestation and land use have on
rising carbon levels in our atmosphere.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Rebecca Wright and Michaela Parlin
|
 While we know and understand that the Earth’s climate undergoes natural
cycles of glacial and inter-glacial events, there is widely accepted
and mounting evidence to suggest that we are accelerating this natural
phenomenon and that the changes in global climate are largely due to
the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere. Human
activities, including the burning of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas,
oil and gasoline), are among those activities that have substantially
increased emissions of greenhouse gases into the environment.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Erin Rae Hoffer, Terry D. Bennett and Geoff Zeiss
|
Our
understanding of the critical nature of climate change is converging
with the migration of the world’s population to urban environments.
As a result, concern with sustainable urban environments, or “green
cities”, has come to the forefront. Serious challenges face our
world’s infrastructure and motivate new approaches and technologies
to improve how we design, build, operate, and maintain our
constructed physical environment – both buildings and
infrastructure. How can we face these challenges and succeed in
developing sustainable and economically efficient urban environments
for our growing communities? Fortuitously, a rethinking of digital
data which underlie infrastructure and building design approaches is
underway.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Maria Angeles Grado Caffaro
|
 Wireless sensor networks are poised to expand as they become more popular. WINSOC (Wireless
Sensor Networks with Self-Organization
Capabilities for Critical and Emergency Applications), is a
project funded by the FP6 Information Society Technologies programme
of the European Union. The
project goal is to improve the performance of sensor networks by
using a biologically inspired design –inscribed in the frame of the
so called bioinspired science that basically consists of looking at
nature to solve problems, that is, using living organisms as a model
to study and conceptualize problems in a variety of fields as
engineering and design, materials or sociology for example.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 Next > End >>
|
| Results 16 - 30 of 44 |
