August 31, 2022 – On July 28, 2022, the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education appointed Ivan Tomljenović, PhD, our remote sensing expert employed at Oikon, as the official representative of the Republic of Croatia in the Horizon Europe Programme Committee in the area of Digitization, Industry and Space (including related missions and partnerships). As … Continued
July 25, 2022 – Everyone knows that the Great Wall of China can be seen from space, but did you know that the Pelješac Bridge in Croatia can also be seen from space? 😊 Here’s how the Copernicus program’s Sentinel-2 system has been monitoring the construction of one of the largest and most important infrastructure … Continued
July 20, 2022 – The catastrophic fire that hit the Šibenik area and the hinterland of Vodice and Zaton last week, causing great material damage, was finally extinguished two days ago, after six days of intense effort by our brave firefighters with the help of the army, police and civil defence. Our team of experts … Continued
July 12, 2022 – We are proud to announce that for the second year in a row we have been awarded the prestigious international Golden AAA Credit Excellence Certificate by Dun & Bradstreet, based on international methodology and financial analysis, as well as excellent business results in this and previous years. Željko Koren, a member … Continued
July 6, 2022 – The scientific paper of our biologist Jelena Mlinarec Novosel, PhD, has just been published in the prestigious international journal Frontiers in Plant Science under the title “Structure and Methylation of 35S rDNA in Allopolyploids Anemone multifida (2n = 4x = 32, BBDD) and Anemone baldensis (2n = 6x = 48, AABBDD) … Continued
July 5, 2022 – Life consists not only of joyful moments, but also of sad ones. We are sad that our dear Prof. dr. sc. Ankica Pranjić and Prof. dr. sc. Andrija Vranković, both retired professors of the Faculty of Forestry of the University of Zagreb, passed away on Sunday, July 3, 2022. We, the … Continued
June 21, 2022 – our expert Andrea Neferanović attended the 7th SPatial LITeracy Remote Sensing®Professional Summer School 2022 from June 13-18, 2022, which was held in Zadar, Croatia, after a two-year break due to the pandemic. OIKON participated in the event as one of the sponsors. The program is designed as an advanced and intensive … Continued
June 10, 2022 – After signing two contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) late last year, Oikon has now signed a third remote sensing contract with the Agency. The project, called “Sentinel-based infralittoral sea habitat type mapping” will use Sentinel imagery to map infralittoral marine habitat. The infralittoral habitat type represents a living part … Continued
June 9, 2022 – Andreja Pavlović, Head of our Department of Nature Protection and Landscape Architecture and an expert on sustainability reporting and the EU Taxonomy, gave a presentation titled “Sustainability Reporting – from difficult terrain to easy reporting on the EU Taxonomy’s environmental goals” at the Sustainable Finance Conference yesterday organised by Lider magazine. … Continued