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CREAF becomes a GEO Associate
With a view to improving access to and the availability and use of geospatial data, the intergovernmental partnership GEO (Group on Earth Observations) has this year established a GEO Associate membership category for organizations based anywhere in the world and related to such data. CREAF recently became one of the first six GEO Associates.
ECOPOTENTIAL launched “SPACED: Using Earth Observations to Protect Natural Landscapes" exhibition in Bruxelles
To help promote ECOPOTENTIAL project CREAF and all ECOPOTENTIAL partners opened an exhibition entitled "Spaced: Using Earth Observations to Protect Natural Landscapes" at the European Parliament. Those with passes to the European Parliament can view it from 8-12 January 2018.
CREAF participates in the global initiative GEO WEEK in Washington DC
The annual meeting of GEO (Group on Earth Observations) will take place between the 23 and 27 of October in Washington DC. There are two sessions organized by CREAF: one centering on citizen science, and the other on future prospects for EuroGEOSS.
MiraMon is now free to the international education community
This places MiraMon among the first to offer free specific remote sensing software and is now included in the set of free online Geographic Information System (GIS) tools.
With Earth observation, ECOPOTENTIAL will improve the future of ecosystem services
This research initiative financed by the European Horizon 2020 program has 47 partners, including CREAF, and a budget of 15 million euros.
CREAF starts a project for the transfer of results of European R&D on water to the marketplace and to society
CREAF coordinates the European project WaterInnEU, whose objective is to create a marketplace connecting results of European R&D on water with potential users. Through WaterInnEU, it is hoped that tools, protocols, and data produced by European research can be standardised, provided via open access, and that they are transferred to actors in the water management sector with decision-making power, or that they penetrate into the market in the form of products and services.
The Master in Remote Sensing and GIS starts its first edition as an official master
El Màster Universitari en Teledetecció i SIG starts this year with more than 80% of the available seats.
CREAF colaborate with OGC on a standard way to encode users’ comments on spatial databases
John Maso, CREAF researcher organizes the group named Geospatial User Feedback Standards Working Group with Sim Thum Fraunhofer Institute and Lucy Basten Aston University.
Studying the effects of climate change from space enters the Big Data era
A new method developed by CREAF and the Autonomous University of Barcelona allows the automatic processing of thousands of satellite images taken by Landsat without manual intervention or the need of atmospheric data.