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Last week our 1st-year master students at Nova IMS visited EPAL company. Epal is the company that handles water management in Lisbon. During their visit, our students were able to learn about the GIS infrastructure and techniques that EPAL uses to carry out the water management tasks in a big city like Lisbon.          […]

Students of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies at NOVAIMS, Ian Lin, Efthychia Koukouraki and Chukwuemeka Igwe were among the 50 finalists of the Copernicus Accelerator program. Their start-up idea Timber Eye, operating in Swaziland, aims to reforest by protecting species, using remote sensing technology through Earth observation: “The right trees at the right time- […]

Five students of the Erasmus Mundus Master of Geospatial Technologies got to participate in the 2019 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference in Bucharest, Romania. Muhammad Hasan Mustafa, Tanmoy Chakraborty, and Jordan Bates gave a talk on a plugin, “Three-D Change Detection: A QGIS Plugin with Python 3”, they developed for QGIS, […]

The associated partners in Münster, 52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH, http://www.52north.org, and con terra GmbH, http://www.conterra.de, conducted a career development workshop at the con terra GmbH on July 23, 2019, where currently all students of the second semester are located. Alexander Strotmann Dahmen (con terra) and Simon Jirka (52°North) provided an overview on the […]

Four students of the Erasmus Mundus Master “Geospatial Technologies” presented two papers at AGILE 2019, the 22nd conference on Geo-information Science in Limassol, Cyprus (https://agile-online.org/conference-2019). The papers were developed during the first semester in Lisbon in the course GIS Applications.   Carlos Delgado and Moritz Hildemann presented the topic of 3D-routing for urban air taxis. […]