This is a list of the latest 15 news.
Gi4DM 2012: Call for Papers
Fri 18 May 2012
The 8th International Conference on Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM) will be held on 13-16 2012 in Enschede, the Netherlands.
ITHACA is mapping service provider for EU emergency management
Tue 20 Mar 2012
ITHACA has been contracted by the European Commission two mapping services (in rush and non-rush mode) in the framework of GMES Initial Operations – Emergency Management Service.
ITHACA @ GeoNode Roadmapping Summit and Sprint, 6-7 February 2012
Thu 16 Feb 2012
Ithaca was among the partners who met at Harvard University last 6 and 7 February for the GeoNode summit.
PhD courses applications are now open at Ithaca in the field of geomatics for disaster management
Tue 15 Nov 2011
Until January 31st 2012 Asian students may apply for a full PhD course or a 18-month exchange program at Ithaca, Torino (Italy)
GIS and Remote Sensing Technical Training in Myanmar
Mon 17 Oct 2011
ITHACA staff joined a WFP training mission in Myanmar from 17 to 29 September 2011.
ITHACA is Associate partner in the AREAS project (Erasmus Mundus Action 2)
Mon 10 Oct 2011
ITHACA is one of the 23 partners of the project AREAS (Academic Relations between Europe and ASia) that offers scholarships to promote mobility from Asia to Europe.
The XXII Congress of ISPRS - Second Announcement and Call for Papers
Thu 1 Sep 2011
The XXII Congress of ISPRS will be held in Melbourne and will run for 8 days, from the 25th August to 1st September 2012. The theme for the Congress is Imaging a Sustainable Future.
Workshop on hydrological models in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
Mon 25 Jul 2011
In the framework of a service agreement between WFP and ITHACA involving Ethiopian government counterparts, ITHACA organizes and holds a 2-days workshop in Addis Ababa (25 and 26 July 2011).
UCOM: Technologies and Applications for Emergency Situations and Public Safety
Wed 22 Jun 2011
Resources used for communications in emergency situations, wireless communications technologies – both mobile and fixed – and geo-referenced data will be the key topics analyzed at UCOM, the three-day event held at Lingotto Fiere of Turin from 30 June to 2 July.
Ithaca staff deployed at the World Bank in Washington DC for research and training
Fri 27 May 2011
Ithaca’s PhD student Simone Balbo has been appointed Short Term Consultant at the GFDRR (Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery) Labs to provide technical assistance and training in data sharing for effective disaster risk reduction
Satellite based urban areas automatic classification
Tue 10 May 2011
The project aims at implementing a semi-automated unsupervised classification method of satellite data to identify urban areas for a more precise estimate of people affected by an emergency and to carry out urban risk/vulnerability assessment analysis.
Wacmos project
Fri 8 Apr 2011
Ithaca attended the workshop “WACMOS feedback to science community and water cycle roadmap in a changing climate” held on 2-4, April 2011, at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.
International Workshop on Global Flood Monitoring and Forecasting, Ispra, Italy, 22 – 24 March 2011
Tue 5 Apr 2011
Ithaca took part to the Ispra workshop and presented two global monitoring systems: ERDS and the automatic water bodies classification and analysis
UN WFP Spatial Data Infrastructure
Mon 4 Apr 2011
Ithaca is implementing a Spatial Data Infrastructure for the WFP, an efficient tool for storing, querying and managing large amounts of global geographic information and spatial data for analysis and visualization purposes, and to share it between a large and differentiated community.
GMES RDA project update
Sat 2 Apr 2011
Having been awarded the contract by the EC in consortium with SiTI in 2009, Ithaca is implementing an initial GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) service for geospatial reference data access covering areas outside Europe.
