A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between QinetiQ and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia to collaborate on a range of research and technology development programmes which could include autonomy, robotics, sensors, communications and remote sensing.
The National Building Research Organization (NBRO) of Sri Lanka has asked the national government to install meters that have systems that will sense landslides in areas potentially at risk across the country.
Researchers at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute of the University of the Philippines have developed a sensor to forecast landslides.
There are 136 coastal cities worldwide, with populations of over one million that rely on the protection of dikes and levees. The pressure on these protective barriers is mounting because the climate change tends to cause the sea level to rise, and gives us good reason to expect more frequent storms.
A new study reveals that the fly arranges the hair-like structures of its nervous system to feel and hear. That method now serves as a model for refining wireless sensor networks, among other computer applications.
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) will deploy locally-developed landslide sensors in risk areas around the country in preparation for possible calamities during this year's typhoon season.
The parent company for weather prediction and windspeed-monitoring company Weatherbug has channelled $25m into a global sensor network, thereby refocusing its efforts on greenhouse gas monitoring.
ION Geophysical announced that it has started a three dimensional multi-client seismic survey on the Marcellus shale play situated in central Pennsylvania.
IBM, Bombardier, and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have collaborated to develop an advanced infrastructure technology that would utilize computers and sensors to applications such as detecting cracks in oil pipelines.
NASA's rover Curiosity is expected to touch down on Mars in August 2012. Preceding the mission by a few months, its science measurements will begin much closer to Earth.
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