Thanks to an agreement with a US environmental research company, ERG (www.erg.com), the GEO Task DI-09-01a on Remote Sensing for Seismic Vulnerability Mapping will be on display in a booth for GEO's Science and Technology Committee at GEO Plenary VI, currently (17-18 Nov 2009) in progress in Washin ...

A project proposal submitted to the Italian Space Agency in response to a call for "Scientific Projects" has been accepted and funded. The project, coordinated by the University of Naples "Parthenope" aims at exploiting the Italian satellite constellation to acquire information useful for risk m ...

After 15 months of work, DORII (Deployment of Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure) project is at half of his life cycle and it starts to show some results. July 3rd has been a crucial date for all the consortium's members because a panel of 3 European experts reviewed the job completed so far. Th ...

On the occasion of the Abruzzo earthquake, EUCENTRE has collected satellite data on the area from various sources, including the Italian Civil Protection Department which shared with its knowledge centres the images from the innovative system COSMO/SkyMed, provided by the Italian Space Agency. In th ...

The DORII project is one year old and British Publisher's eStrategies magazine dedicates a couple of pages to integration of instrumentation and e-infrastructures. In particular, the project leader, Norbert Meyer, explains in an interview that the upcoming trend in experimental sciences is tight co ...

Fabio Dell'Acqua has been appointed Point of Contact (PoC) for GEO subtask DI-09-01a, "Vulnerability Mapping and Risk Assessment". Subtask DI-09-01a was introduced in the GEO Work Plan 2009-2011 by merging two tasks from the former GEO Work Plan 2007-2009: DI-06-03 ("Integration of InSAR Techno ...