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Exploring space from the ground: open satellite data in Europe and its applications
The value of open satellite data in Europe
Satellites have become essential tools for understanding the planet and managing resources efficiently. The European Union (EU) has developed an advanced space infrastructure with the aim of providing real-time data on the environment, navigation and meteor…
New geospatial data capture techniques: innovations for more efficient data governance
Geospatial data capture is essential for understanding our environment, making informed decisions and designing effective policies in areas such as urban planning, natural resource management or emergency response. In the past, this process was mainly manual and labour-intensive, based on ground mea…
Complying with Europe. The High Value Sites of Earth Observation and Environment Regulation
The European Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 sets clear guidelines for public bodies on the availability of high-value datasets within 16 months from 20 January 2023. These high-value high value datasets (High value datasets or HVD) are grouped into the following themes, which were…
Hot OSM: Collaborative mapping to coordinate emergency response
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 collaborative mapping project known as Hot OSM (OpenS…
Formulas for accelerating data collaboration
After a period in which efforts were focused on releasing data, mainly from the public sector, in conditions in which it could be reused to create value in its different forms (economic, social, cultural, etc.), we are finding increasing activity around collaboration between organizations to solve b…
The latest news in natural language processing: summaries of classic works in just a few hundred words
Artificial intelligence is increasingly present in our lives. However, its presence is increasingly subtle and unnoticed. As a technology matures and permeates society, it becomes more and more transparent, until it becomes completely naturalized. Artificial intelligence is rapidly going down this p…
GPT-3. Just another step in natural language processing?
Can you imagine an AI capable of writing songs, novels, press releases, interviews, essays, technical manuals, programming code, prescribing medication and much more that we don't know yet? Watching GPT-3 in action doesn't seem like we're very far away.
In our latest report on natural language proce…
The ecosystem that nourishes open data
On too many occasions, open data initiatives are born in governments as purely technical projects whose purpose is simply creating a data catalog, when, in reality, they should be seen as collaborative transformation projects that take place within complex and variable environments, in which th…
