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3 weeks ago | 
geoconnexion.com | Peter FitzGibbon
Smart farming—a phrase that encompasses research computing tools that help farmers to better address issues like crop disease, drought and sustainability—has quickly become a ubiquitous term in Ag labs across the country. The availability of NCSA resources such as Delta for researchers, both nationally and on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U. of I.) campus, has fostered a hotbed of cutting-edge research projects in the agricultural domain. Yi-Chia Chang, a Ph.D. student at the U.
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4 weeks ago | 
geoconnexion.com | Peter FitzGibbon
Dryad’s Silvaguard drone system extends Silvanet’s ultra-early fire detection with real-time aerial observation and marks a key milestone toward autonomous wildfire suppression In the aftermath of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires estimated to cost more than $250 billion, Dryad Networks, a pioneer in ultra-early wildfire detection technology, today announced a successful demonstration of the world’s first fully functional drone prototype solution to autonomously detect, locate, monitor...
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4 weeks ago | 
geoconnexion.com | Peter FitzGibbon
In 2025, the large-scale integration of renewable energy sources will continue across Europe, with solar power generation predicted to increase by 20% year-on-year, contributing to a record number of negative power prices across Europe. The overall volatility in energy prices, especially due to factors like fluctuating demand, geopolitical instability and global commodity prices, is a concern for utilities.
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1 month ago | 
geoconnexion.com | Peter FitzGibbon
A research project undertaken at University of Augsburg in Germany has made ground-breaking advances in digital agricultural meteorology. The goal of the project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), was to develop a powerful geodata infrastructure for real-time analysis of extreme weather events and their effects on agriculture.
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1 month ago | 
geoconnexion.com | Peter FitzGibbon
Quantum technology is no longer confined to the lab – it’s making its way into our everyday lives. Now, it’s about to transform something even more fundamental: how we navigate the world. Imagine submarines travelling beneath the ocean, never needing to surface for location updates. Planes flying across continents with unshakeable precision, unaffected by signal disruptions.
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1 month ago | 
geoconnexion.com | Peter FitzGibbon
With sea traffic set to rise in a warming Arctic, researchers are helping sailors plot a safer course through sea ice and icebergs thanks to more reliable satellite-based forecasts. Nicolas "Niko" Dubreuil, a veteran polar explorer with over three decades of experience in the Arctic, knows first-hand the dangers of navigating the region's icy landscapes. In 2001, while trekking on an icepack in Greenland, he suffered a severe fall, sustaining major injuries.
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1 month ago | 
geoconnexion.com | Peter FitzGibbon
The LuGRE payload’s success in lunar orbit and on the surface indicates that signals from the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) can be received and tracked at the Moon. These results mean NASA’s Artemis missions, or other exploration missions, could benefit from these signals to accurately and autonomously determine their position, velocity, and time. This represents a steppingstone to advanced navigation systems and services for the Moon and Mars.
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1 month ago | 
geoconnexion.com | Peter FitzGibbon
Miranda Zammarelli, Guarini, was a graduate student at Dartmouth for just nine days when her interests in birds, history, and archives converged in a set of old filing cabinets in New Hampshire's White Mountains. She had spent the first days of June 2021 brainstorming projects with her adviser, Professor of Biological Sciences Matt Ayres, as they explored a 25-acre area within the long bowl-shaped valley of the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest that is reserved for studying birds.
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1 month ago | 
geoconnexion.com | Peter FitzGibbon
The SCATTER project (Scanning Ancient Trees with Terrestrial LiDAR) employs a novel LiDAR based approach to assess ancient oaks, raise awareness about their legal status, and provide new insights for their conservation. Leading the efforts to study and conserve these natural icons are Professor Mat Disney and Dr. Cecilia Chavana-Bryant at UCL, along with Dr. Phil Wilkes at Kew.
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1 month ago | 
geoconnexion.com | Peter FitzGibbon
Researchers from the University of Glasgow are behind the development of the model, called "GeoAggregator," which harnesses the power of machine learning to reduce the computational demands of analyzing complex geospatial data sets. The team's paper, titled "GeoAggregator—An Efficient Transformer Model for Geo-spatial Tabular Data" will be presented at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence this week.
