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- Talk about Open Source business in practice – Earth observation and more at GI Forum Münster 8. January 2018Dr. Markus Neteler has been invited to speak about Open Source business in practice: Earth observation and more at the GI Forum at the Institute for Geoinformatics of the University of Münster on 9th of January, 2018. Abstract In my talk I’ll present some of our current projects at mundialis, a “free data with free software” startup business. ...Read more
- mundialis wishes you a merry christmas 18. December 2017The team of mundialis wants to thank all our partners, customers and friends for the confidence you have shown in the now ending year and wishes all of you a quiet and peaceful Christmas and a happy and successfull year 2018! We will have some days off from the 23rd December and will be back as usual ...Read more
- Satellite image of the month – December – Austrian High Alps 12. December 2017Austrian High Alps – High Tauern National Park The satellite image of the month December shows parts of the national park or the high mountain range “High Tauern” (Hohe Tauern) in Austria. The image is a true color image taken from the European Sentinel 2A satellite. In the middle area of the satellite photo you can ...Read more
- mundialis participated in COP23 28. November 2017The Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place this year in Bonn, Germany, from 6th to 17th of November. The mundialis team had the opportunity to attend COP 23 allowing us to gain an overarching overview over the different activities and players on climate change ...Read more
- FOSSGIS Conference 2018 – mundialis is bronze sponsor! 28. November 2017After Passau in 2017, the FOSSGIS conference will take place next year in our home town Bonn from March 21-24, 2018. The lectures and workshops will deal with free and open source software for geoinformation systems to show the latest developments and case studies. The conference brings together users and developers to discuss technology and strategies. ...Read more
- (Deutsch) Softwareentwickler/in 21. November 2017Sorry, this entry is only available in German.Read more
- Closed conference with subsequent Christmas party at terrestris & mundialis 21. November 2017Last Friday, the employees and managing directors of terrestris and mundialis took a whole day to exchange ideas and to work out new topics and suggestions for improvement. As partner companies, both terrestris and mundialis can benefit from this joint exchange by claiming and taking over the strengths of the other company. This kind of concentrated ...Read more
- mundialis closed-meeting on 17st of November 13. November 2017On 17st of November the company mundialis has a closed-meeting with all its employees. This kind of meeting allows an intensive exchange and everyone taking part is enable to shape and influence daily work in his or her sense. Taking a deep breath and reflection our own work release lots of creativity and satisfaction – this is something ...Read more
- (Deutsch) art.mundialis bringt Ihnen Weihnachten über(s) All 10. November 2017Sorry, this entry is only available in German.Read more
- Satellite image of the month – November – Fiji 8. November 2017Viti Levu, Fiji The satellite picture of the month November was created by the European Sentinel 2A satellite. It shows in true colours the northern part of the island of Viti Levu, the main island of the state of Fiji in the South Pacific Ocean. In the western part of the satellite photo you can find ...Read more
- Special issue in the journal “Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards” 8. November 2017Special issue in the journal “Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards” Published: October 2017 Source: https://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/oserm2 Open Science for Earth Remote Sensing: latest developments in software and data Significant changes have taken place over the past few years in remote sensing technology. Quantity, quality and diversity of sensors have increased exponentially and so have related data. Open source software ...Read more
- mundialis: New expert for radar remote sensing 19. October 2017Dr. Hajar Benelcadi joins the mundialis team. The data analyst and expert in radar remote sensing is working for the Bonn-based company on issues such as the federal government’s WANDEL project, among others, on the question of the extent to which water scarcity is accelerating the energy revolution. The availability of water and energy is of ...Read more
- Satellite image of the month – October – Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 5. October 2017Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia The satellite image of the month October shows the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar (Ulan-Bator) and the bordering Gorchi-Tereldsch National Park in the north-east of the country. The picture shows a vegetation analysis of the region and was created from different bands, based on Sentinel-2A data of the EU Copernicus program, after the download the scene ...Read more
- Outcomes from GRoW conference 14. September 2017GRoW conference was a great opportunity to learn about the other projects financed under GRoW funding measure and to exchange with the different projects holders. It allows also to learn about the common points shared by all the projects and the research questions that these projects attempt to answer from different points of view at ...Read more
- New OSGeo Local chapter “OSGeo-Europe” 14. September 2017The OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Foundation) is organized at the local or regional level in so-called “Local Chapter”. The FOSSGIS e. V. is, for example, the official German-speaking OSGeo Local Chapter and is therefore the contact point for all those interested in or interested in the corresponding D-A-CH space for the OSGeo. As far as the ...Read more
- Satellite image of the month – September – Sundarbans 12. September 2017Sundarbans in Bangladesh The satellite image of the month of September shows the so – called Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forests on earth, which are located at the Gulf of Bengal. The larger part of the picture shows Bangladesh, a smaller western part is located in Indian territory. The illustrated true color image was made up of different ...Read more
- Does water scarcity accelerate the energy transition? 12. September 2017Water is an important factor for the use of fossil and renewable energy sources. Whether and how the global availability of water favours the use of renewable energies and how fossil fuels are slowing down is now being investigated by a network of nine German research institutions and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The project ...Read more
- mundialis will attend the GRoW (Globale Ressource Wasser) conference the 12 th September 2017 11. September 2017(Deutsch) mundialis wird am 12. September 2017 an der GRoW (Globale Ressource Wasser) Konferenz im Zentrum von Kunst und Medien in Karlsruhe teilnehmen. Die GRoW-Konferenz ist offizieller Auftakt des Förderprogramms des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF). Ziel der GRoW-Konferenz ist es, die Möglichkeit zur Vernetzung verschiedener Projekte im Rahmen des GRoW-Förderprogramms zu bieten. mundialis nimmt ...Read more
- Filter Sentinel-2A scenes with the new release of EO-me 7. September 2017Fast-track to the right Sentinel scene The Earth Observation metadata enhancer (EO-me) is a service that addresses the issue of identifying specific data tiles in the rapidly growing satellite data archives. In mid 2017 close to one million satellite images are available and it used to be difficult to find the right one for the problem to ...Read more
- mundialis welcomes Dr. Hajar Benelcadi as a new data analyst in the team 4. September 2017Hajar joined mundialis in August 2017 as data analyst and project manager. Her expertise comprises Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) and optical images processing and analysis for forest monitoring, agroforestry and land cover/land use sectors. During the last 5 years, her analysis included several and different tropical forest ecosystems in Cameroon, Gabon, Brazil, Peru and Cambodia. Hajar worked ...Read more