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- Presenting at the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022 19. April 2022The ESA Living Planet Symposium “focuses on how Earth observation contributes to science and society, and how disruptive technologies and actors are changing the traditional Earth observation landscape” (quote from the website). Since this conference will take place from 23-27 May 2022 in the World Conference Center Bonn, practically on our doorstep, we obviously applied ...Read more
- Le Kollektiv – Meeting in Bonn 28. March 2022Le Kollektiv is a formal network of 9 European Digital and New Space companies founded in July 2021 in Paris and coordinated by Prométhée, a French New Space start-up specializing in end-to-end Earth observation services. Le Kollektiv is convinced that the future of New Space goes through digitalization. Therefore, besides Prométhée and mundialis, the ...Read more
- MOOD Science Webinar on COVID-19 Scatterplots 24. March 2022As part of the EU Horizon 2020 MOOD project (MOnitoring Outbreaks for Disease surveillance in a data science context), mundialis was invited to speak at the MOOD Science Webinar in February. The MOOD project aims to develop innovative tools and services for the early detection, assessment, and monitoring of current and future infectious disease threats across ...Read more
- Update of actinia.mundialis.de to new API version 3 22. March 2022Until now, API version 1 was installed at actinia.mundialis.de. This was evident from the URL, e.g. https://actinia.mundialis.de/api/v1/version. Due to some updates, the current API version is now v3. actinia.mundialis.de is now updated to include the latest developments. Officially, actinia is thus accessible at https://actinia.mundialis.de/api/v3/version. In order not to break with existing user behavior / client implementations, ...Read more
- (Deutsch) Ein Rückblick auf die FOSSGIS 2022 22. March 2022Sorry, this entry is only available in German.Read more
- (Deutsch) FOSSGIS 2022 an der Philipps Universität Marburg 15. February 2022Sorry, this entry is only available in German.Read more
- FOSS4G 2021 Videos from and with mundialis online 13. December 2021This year, for the first time, the annual FOSS4G conference was held on the South American continent from Sept 27th – Oct 02nd, 2021 in Buenos Aires. Due to the Corona pandemic, the conference was held as an online conference. Our presentations are now available as videos. The following contributions by and with mundialis employees could ...Read more
- Lots of code, fruitful discussions & productive cooperation: review of a successful retreat 18. October 2021As announced we went on a joint retreat in Greece with our sister company terrestris from 2021-10-01 to 2021-10-08. Retreats have a long tradition with us, maybe not as long as terrestris, but internationally we went to Spain in 2018, and Portugal in 2015, and many more times at home ...Read more
- WWF contract: Biodiversity Risk Method for Investors 5. October 2021WWF jointly with Climate & Company, Earthmind and mundialis, hereafter the Consortium, are delighted to announce their collaboration for the development of a new methodology for investors to address biodiversity-related financial risks in portfolio management. This collaboration is the result of a highly competitive tender process initiated by WWF in February 2021 to find partner ...Read more
- (Deutsch) Große Klausurtagung 2021 mundialis – eingeschränkte Erreichbarkeit 28. September 2021Sorry, this entry is only available in German.Read more
- (Deutsch) FOSS4G Beiträge von und mit mundialis 13. September 2021Sorry, this entry is only available in German.Read more
- Germany 2019-2020 – Land cover change based on Sentinel-2 data 20. August 2021– Change detection map of Germany for 2019-2020 now available – The series of land cover classification and land cover change maps of Germany based on Sentinel-2 data has been extended. Based on the new land cover map of Germany for 2020 and the land cover map for 2019 already produced at the end of 2020, ...Read more
- Review FOSSGIS 2021: Videos and presentations 18. June 2021This year’s FOSSGIS conference took place – theoretically in Rapperswil, Switzerland – from 06 to 09 June 2021. Unfortunately, it was not possible to be on site in Switzerland due to the pandemic, so the conference was held online. To say it in advance: This worked out excellently and was a very good experience. More ...Read more
- HERMOSA: Watch our new video 28. May 2021You can watch the new video from HERMOSA here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSvQv99mLLQRead more
- HERMOSA Bulletin: Supporting restoration action in Africa 25. May 2021Over the past few weeks we spoke about optical and radar data analyses, VHR data, interoperability and other fancy stuff that HERMOSA is capable of. One of the big questions in this context: Who are the organisations that need this functionality? We are proud to introduce Tree Adoption Uganda (TAU), our partner in East Africa. TAU ...Read more
- HERMOSA Feature-of-the-Week: The reports tell how it is 24. May 2021The HERMOSA platform has many nifty features when it comes to importing, analysing and managing geodata. They were explained in previous contributions and can be found in the news section of our homepage. Each one of them is important in itself but the end-point of many activities is the communication about the overall achievement. In ...Read more
- HERMOSA Bulletin: Science meets information technology 19. May 2021The objective of HERMOSA is to quantify restoration activities and to create credibility through transparency. To be more precise, the quantification relates to the location and area size, the activities being carried out, the partners involved, the time needed for the project implementation, the amount of money spent, the amount of restoration and conservation achieved, and numerous other details that can ...Read more
- HERMOSA Feature-of-the-Week: Seeing the details – Very High Resolution (VHR) data 14. May 2021In recent posts we already spoke about how the HERMOSA platform relies on the successful Copernicus programme operated by the European Commission and managed by the European Space Agency (ESA). We also mentioned that the satellites called Sentinels collect data at high temporal and spatial resolutions and that this data is made available for free ...Read more
- HERMOSA Bulletin: Ready to support the restoration efforts 11. May 2021The year 2021 is the start of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration declared four years after the Paris Agreement. The latter is an international treaty to limit global warming to well below 2 (preferably 1.5) degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial times usually dated to 1850 – 1900. The decade will be officially launched on ...Read more
- HERMOSA Feature-of-the-Week: Data in HERMOSA is safe 7. May 2021Since the HERMOSA platform is dedicated to the management of predominantly spatial data you might be wondering how the safety and integrity of data is ensured. Well, besides the utilization of a tried and tested, highly customizable authentication and access-control framework there is a user-rights and -roles concept in the making to ensure that data ...Read more