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

April 12, 2021

Soil-X: Improving the value of soil data based on GAIA-X.

Consortium kick off to write project proposal

Together with SMEs and within the guardrails of GAIA-X, we will leverage existing infrastructures to provide data that has already been published in GAIA-X compliant data spaces. Our focus is on soil data e.g., LTE data and soil profile data. The data will be harmonized and made available in the Soil-X data space for additional use as interoperable services. This will result in increased exploitability and added value of the data.

We are a consortium of science (ZALF, Thünen-Institute, TH OWL, JKI) and SMEs (rasdaman GmbH, wetransform, 52°North GmbH, GISCON geo.engineering.gmbh) and cover with our respective capabilities and infrastructures the areas of data provision, data harmonization and utilization.

March 11, 2021

Mentoring Organization for Google Summer of Code 2021

52°North proud to be a Mentoring Organization for the 10th year in a row

We are so excited to have been selected to be one of 202 mentoring organizations for this year’s Google Summer of Code! The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for Open Source projects.

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March 1, 2021

RIESGOS 2.0 Kick-off

Natural hazards and chain reactions – assessing risks more accurately

Increasing numbers of people worldwide are being exposed to natural hazards, particularly in densely populated cities and conurbations. In these situations, effective risk management can save lives. Hazards are rarely isolated; if an earthquake triggers a tsunami, this in turn can generate further environmental disasters and disruptions. Torrential rain can cause landslides and lead to rivers bursting their banks, resulting in flooding. These chain reactions can compound a disaster and quickly overwhelm victims and rescue workers. Information systems can help planners and emergency services to pre-emptively draw up multi-risk scenarios and to take targeted precautions. For this reason, the RIESGOS 2.0 international project kicked off on 1 March 2021. Under the leadership of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), the project partners are developing scientific methods and technologies for multi-risk analysis.

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February 25, 2021

6 year contract to continue the European Data Portal

52°North is member of consortium awarded 6-year contract to continue the development of the European Data Portal

The European Union’s framework contract award highlights the strategic position of the project consortium in the field of Insights & Data to drive innovation across Europe

The Publications Office of the European Union has awarded a six-year framework contract to Capgemini Invent to continue the development of the European Data Portal and related consultancy and research work into a new service: Data.Europa.EU. It will combine the two European data portals, and their efforts towards facilitating open data publication and re-use in Europe.

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