Category: Environment

Kisters Using New OGC Standards to Bring Clients' Hydrological Data to the Cloud

by Malcolm Barr Email

Aachen, Germany/Citrus Heights, CA, September 30, 2011— KISTERS presented its final results of the Surface Water Interoperability Experiments #1 and #3 to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in Boulder, CO this past week. The end result of this work wa… more »

Live Environmental Monitoring to the Public

by Malcolm Barr Email

Over the weekend, most of the North Island was lashed by heavy rainfall resulting in many flooded homes, businesses and properties.  Hamilton wasn't as badly affected as other areas, but my basement was 15-20cm deep in water at midday Sunday and we have… more »

Technology - Time for a Change?

by Michael Cook Email

January 1, 2011... The world awoke - or rather didn't wake - to the first widely publicised technical glitch of the new year. The ubiquitous iPhone and iPod had a software bug that affected the alarm clock function. It was probably only a tiny error in a… more »

Extreme Environmental Monitoring - Stuck In The Sand

by Michael Cook Email

Installations using iQuest products are found in some pretty extreme locations. They range from the searing heat of the Australian Outback to the freezing cold, buried in snow high on New Zealand mountains. Dataloggers are monitoring a range of parameter… more »

Cell Phones And Everyday People Monitoring The Environment

by Malcolm Barr Email

Normal people carrying small sensors and cell phones are set to become an integral part of environmental monitoring in San Diego as part of a project called CitiSense.  This is the aim of a team of computer scientists at the University of California, San… more »

Environmental Monitoring Results in the Nick of Time

by Malcolm Barr Email

"World gets warmer as climate talks start" was the title of a New Zealand Herald article yesterday.  It asserts that "this year is likely to be among the 10 hottest years on record", and that "the decade of the 2000s (2000-2009) was warmer than the 1990s… more »