10 August 2018, Frascati, Italy − How to monitor sea level rise, what are the dynamics of ice melting in Antartica, what makes sea color, carbon cycle on Earth, how to see stress in plants – these topics and many more were in focus at the European Space Agency Summer School 2018 (ESRIN) where our employee … Continued
27 July 2018 − As part of the project “Technical Assistance For Strengthening the National Nature Protection System for Implementation of Natura 2000 Requirements”, the Database Launch Event was held in Ankara, Turkey where we presented a database and applications developed for the establishment of the Natura 2000 ecological network in Turkey. Our experts Siniša Tkalčec … Continued
26th July 2018 − Here’s an interesting byproduct of the analysis we are doing. On the map you can see the result of a raster analysis showing how many minutes of walk it takes from the roads in the Velebit Nature Park (a part of it is in Zadar County) to a certain point. The analysis was … Continued
3-6 July 2018, Salzburg, Austria − Our team member Davor Korman, mag. oecol. participated in the Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg – GI_Forum, where he held a presentation titled “Handling and Extraction of Sentinel 2 Data for the Comparison of Seasonal and Monthly Biomass Assessment Models”. It is a case study about a project in Croatia lead … Continued
11th June 2018 − four of Oikon’s experts have just completed the five-day TAT 2018 international training “Integration of Radar and Optical Remote Sensing in Studying Land Cover/Land Use Change”, hosted by University of Zagreb. Ivona Žiža, Nela Jantol, Davor Korman and Alen Berta, PhD, attended the lectures and training activities of the Trans-Atlantic Training (TAT) … Continued
8th June 2018 − This week the 3rd International scientific and expert conference “Natural resources, green technology and sustainable development / 3-GREEN2018“ was held in Zagreb with the aim to bring together leading experts in the field from around the world to present recent achievements, share the latest developments and address the challenges. Oikon’s experts participated in … Continued
May 28, 2018 − Croatian Agency for Environment and Nature (CAEN) presented the results of the project “Carbon sink assessment in dead organic matter and average wood stock assessment in maquis, shrubbery and first age class stands in Croatian forests“, which was launched to meet the reporting obligations of the United Nations under the United Nations … Continued
25th May 2018 – As member of consortium, Oikon has recently signed a framework contract with European Commission’s DG for International Cooperation and Development for provision of sustainable management of natural resources and resilience (Lot 1). The overall contract value of the Framework Contract Services for the Implementation of External Aid 2018 (‘FWC SIEA 2018’) … Continued
24-27 April 2018, Greifswald, Germany − Our head of Department of Natural Resources Management, Alen Berta, PhD, participated in the international conference “TRACE 2018 – Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology” with a presentation of the final results of the “Application of high resolution multi-spectral satellite images in determining the degree of productivity and age … Continued