23-24 September 2017 – our employees improved their knowledge by attending two important hydrogeology workshops in Dubrovnik this weekend. Davor Korman and Igor Tošić participated in the workshop “Groundwater Remediation: From Hydrogeological Site Concepts to Applied Numeric Models” conducted by renowned Neven Kresic, PhD from AMEC Foster Wheeler, where practical knowledge of MODFLOW was used to … Continued
18th September 2017 – The book “Soil – the formation, features, management” by Professor Nikola Pernar has just been published. It is a university textbook published by the Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb, intended primarily for forestry students, but it could be used in teaching of land related subjects by other faculties and polytechnics in … Continued
14th September 2017, Vodice – the 3rd Regional Conference on Environmental Impact Assessment was officially opened today by the Minister of Environmental Protection and Energy, Tomislav Ćorić, PhD. The Conference is organized by the Croatian Association of Nature and Environment Professionals (HUSZPO) and OIKON is one of the main sponsors. The aim of the conference … Continued
11th September 2017 – Oikon has another doctor in the team. Alen Berta, Head of Department of Natural Resources Management, today at noon defended his doctoral thesis at Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb. Alen’s PhD thesis was entitled: Evaluation of forest biomass using LIDAR technology in degraded forest stands of hilly and lowland vegetation belt of … Continued
11th September 2017 – Oikon Ltd. has become an official partner of FAO’s Global Soil Partnership whose one of the key objectives is to improve the governance and promote sustainable management of soils. Approximately 33% of our global soils are degraded and policy makers around the world are exploring opportunities to embrace sustainable development via … Continued
7 September 2017 – We are proud to announce that our employee Ivona Žiža was selected to take part in the 7th ESA Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing which is now being held at Szent István University (SZIU), in Gödöllő, Hungary. Ivona is there also presenting her poster entitled “CLC inventory 2012, verification and … Continued
4th September 2017 − Our employee Mateo Gudić participated in the International Summer School of Sustainable Urban Planning “Making the Metropolis – Exploring Interdisciplinary Approaches in Metropolitan Design Engineering” organized by Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Delft Delta, Infrastructure & Mobility Initiative (DIMI), International Forum on Urbanism (IFOU) and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions … Continued
19 August 2017 − We recently published maps of burnt areas on Svilaja Mountain and near Hrvace where we showed the accuracy of semi-automatic classification (light brown – 1032 ha). Our researcher Alen Berta has made a comparison of these surfaces and the fire on Dinara Mountain (light green) that started at about the same time … Continued
28 July 2017 – As promised, we bring you the final analysis of the Split fire. Unfortunately, on July 27, it was cloudy in the Split area and the footage could not be used, but as Sentinel 2B is in a test phase (twin brother of Sentinel 2A, which will shorten the recording time to … Continued