^2013-05-31

The EO2Heaven Consortium recently published "EO2Heaven - mitigating environmental health risks". This book takes a look at how current trends in geospatial technology and global initiatives can help analyze and investigate the complex relationships between environmental conditions and human health. As a consortium member, 52°North contributed its Sensor Web and Geoprocesssing expertise.

^2013-05-29

52°North welcomes four students for this year's Google Summer of Code.

52°North received 17 proposal submissions from students all over the world who were interested in creating code for a number of 52°North projects. This was significantly less than in 2012 (35) due to Google's strict reduction of the number of proposals each individual student was allowed to submit. The four students will work on challenging projects in the Sensor Web, Geoprocessing and Geostatistics communities.

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^2013-05-27

52°North congratulates Alber Sánchez!

Alber Sánchez received the Insitute for Geoinformatics'  EDC "Student of the Year" Award 2013 for his outstanding work on an extensible WPS client for ArcMap. His significant involvement in the conception and development provides the foundation for two WPS clients for ArcMap.

^2013-05-21

enviroCar - make your city smarter

52°North's and ifgi's enviroCar project went public at last week's Geotag Münsterland 2013. More than 300 participants from the Münsterland region gathered to present and discuss new technologies and concepts for Smart Cities. With the start of its crowd funding campaign, enviroCar invites the public to become citizen scientists and share car sensor data to better understand the effects of one's own driving on one's own environment and thus make the world a little smarter, traffic less stressful, and economic driving more fun!

^2013-05-15

The Geoprocessing Community announces a new Web Processing Service maintenance release! The WPS 3.1.1 contains several bugfixes and a few improvements:

• Fixed issue with WPS4R
• Enabled DescribeProcess via pox and fixed some compliance issues
• Switched off excessive http logging
• Improved tests
• FlatFileDatabase improvements.

Download the new release here.