Monthly Archives: June 2014
Help Protect Our Ocean
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Whether you live on the coast or hours from the closest beach, we all depend on the ocean. The ocean is critical to maintaining life on Earth, contributing to our livelihoods and our well-being. Yet, the ocean is facing significant challenges, such as unsustainable fishing practices, marine pollution, and ocean acidification. The good news is that there are solutions.
Hexagon’s Schmidt Discusses Water Solutions
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Todd Danielson interviews Justin Schmidt, Executive Manager, Hexagon Solutions, at the HxGN LIVE event in Las Vegas, Nevada. They discuss the Hexagon Smart H2O Solution (the foundation for Hexagon Solutions), complete water systems and their challenges, dam monitoring and failures, and more.
Indicators for sustainable cities — how do you score?
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By 2050, 70% of people will live in cities... are you ready? City indicators help city managers, politicians, researchers and other professionals to focus on what's important and put in place policies for more livable, tolerant, sustainable, economically attractive and prosperous cities.
INTERGEO Conference Integrates Geoinformation with Modern Infrastructure
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This year’s conference at the 20th INTERGEO will be taking a close look at crucial social and political topics set within the framework of increasing global digitization. A whole series of events and forums will offer in-depth discussions on shaping and developing our living environment.
Marina Militare – Hydrography explained to kids
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The Navy Hydrographic Institute is the Italian Cartographic Centre designated to the production of official national nautical documents.
NASA | Earth from Orbit 2013
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A fleet of orbiting satellites monitors Earth constantly. The satellites from NASA and other space agencies give us a fresh, wide perspective on things that we can see from the ground -- and things that we can't.
Project Tango: NASA SPHERES
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Since the summer of 2013, the Project Tango team has been working closely with a team at the NASA Ames Research Center. The goal: to integrate a Project Tango prototype onto a robotic platform, called SPHERES, that flies inside the International Space Station.
Urban Ecology
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Weather Versus Climate Change
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Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks down the difference between weather and climate change.
