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Satellite Data Analysis: A Window on the World from Space - Application in Fisheries Monitoring and Management 30-04-2025
Satellite data has become a fundamental tool for understanding and monitoring our planet from a unique perspective. This data, collected by satellites in orbit around the Earth, provides a global and detailed view of various terrestrial, maritime and...
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Building footprints: open data that saves lives in emergencies 09-04-2025
In a world increasingly exposed to natural hazards and humanitarian crises, accurate and up-to-date geospatial data can make the difference between effective response and delayed reaction. The building footprints, i.e. the contours of buildings as they...
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DGT datasets to help improve traffic and road safety 04-04-2025
The General direction of traffic (DGT in its Spanish acronym) is the body responsible for ensuring safety and fluidity on the roads in Spain. Among other activities, it is responsible for the issuing of permits, traffic control and the management of...
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PET technologies: how to use protected data in a privacy-sensitive way 08-01-2025
As organisations seek to harness the potential of data to make decisions, innovate and improve their services, a fundamental challenge arises: how can data collection and use be balanced with respect for privacy? PET technologies attempt to address this...
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Trust as a driver of social and economic value creation through data 25-10-2023
Trust, as a key factor in unlocking the potential of data in the digital economy, is an increasingly central element in all data regulations. The European General Data Protection Regulation, in 2016 already recognised that if individuals...
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Hot OSM: Collaborative mapping to coordinate emergency response 18-04-2023
The humanitarian crisis following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 was the starting point for a voluntary initiative to create maps to identify the level of damage and vulnerability by areas, and thus to coordinate emergency teams. Since then, the...
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Collecting and analysing data to improve humanitarian assistance and restore damage during the Ukrainian war 05-10-2022
On 24 February Europe entered a scenario that not even the data could have predicted: Russia invaded Ukraine, unleashing the first war on European soil so far in the 21st century. Almost five months later, on 26 September, the United Nations (UN)...
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The role of blockchain in security and data privacy 17-05-2018
The imminent application of the recent GDPR (May 25th) modifies the European panorama in terms of security and privacy of personal data. Overall, the GDPR could be considered a "Digital Declaration of Rights". As we saw earlier, this Regulation lists the...