Ann Hitchcock, Autor auf 52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH

October 17, 2022

Geodesy Prize awarded to Arne de Wall

The Nico Rüpke Foundation and the DVW e.V. – Society for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management present the Geodesy Award.

The chairman of the Nico Rüpke Foundation, Prof. Erich Kanngieser, and the DVW President, Prof. Hansjörg Kutterer present the Geodesy Prize Award during the INTERGEO Conference on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 17:00. The prize is awarded for the outstanding technical zfv (3/2021) article “SenSituMon – Integration of Satellite and in-Situ Sensor Data to Improve the Automated, Large-Scale Monitoring of Floods” (Arne de Wall, Albert Remke, Bodo Bernsdorf, Thore Fechner, Alexandra Bicsan and Adrian Klink). It will be presented to the first author Arne de Wall on behalf of the team of authors.

October 7, 2022

Cos4Cloud is CORDIS Project of the Month

Cos4Cloud: Co-designed Citizen Observatories Services for the EOS Cloud

CORDIS – the Community Research and Development Information Service – promotes research results from projects funded by the EU’s framework programs for research and innovation. Cos4Cloud has been named EU “Project of the Month” for improving the collections and management of data in citizen science.

I-CISK General Assembly

An intense and successful first I-CISK project General Assembly in Münster

The European project “Innovating Climate services through Integrating Scientific and local Knowledge” (I-CISK) recently held its first general assembly in Münster. 52°North invited representatives from all partners across Europe to present their progress and to discuss open questions from the first project year.

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October 6, 2022

Open GeoHub Summer School 2022 – a great success!

KISTE project workshop: “Open Source solutions for Earth system data (R, OSGeo, Python)”

OpenGeoHub’s Summer School 2022 took place from August 28th – September 3rd ~~virtually~~ in person(!). As in the previous events, several experts from various disciplines around open source software and open data were invited to provide lectures for researchers who would like to improve their analysis and modeling skills. In total, 17 lecturers came to teach 40 participants. 52°North co-organized the event as part of the KI:STE project and contributed to the lecturers’ lineup with Benedikt Gräler, Christian Autermann, and Markus Konkol. During the reception on Sunday, some of the lecturers and participants had their first opportunity to get in touch. This was followed by five days of Earth System Analysis training sessions and discussions with a focus on R, Python, and Julia.

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