Multi-head air samplers suit controlled environments
Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck, has announced three additions to its MAS-100® family of air samplers. The MAS-100 Iso MH® and...
Taking the guesswork out of flood prediction
Sustainability software and data firm Ecometrica is aiming to take some of the guesswork out of flood and crop yield prediction, forest protection and...
Maintaining confidence: strategies for securing more sustainable operations
Efforts to ensure the continuity of today’s mission-critical industrial operations are blunted by the burden of aging and increasingly complex electrical systems. ABB’s Lee...
Peak District National Park commissions ultra-high resolution aerial maps
The Peak District National Park Authority has commissioned a brand new ultra-high resolution aerial survey from aerial mapping firm Bluesky to map land cover...
EarthCARE satellite launch promises improved understanding of how clouds and aerosols interact
The EarthCARE satellite was successfully launched into orbit on 29 May, announced by ESA with the promise that it “is poised to revolutionise our...
Weather monitoring in extreme conditions
A VENTUS X ultrasonic wind sensor has been deployed by researchers at the Summit Station on the Greenland Ice Sheet in the Arctic, 10,000...
EA makes LIDAR data available
THE Environment Agency (EA) is making its LiDAR data sets freely available as open data to commercial organisations from September 2015.
LiDAR (Light Detection...
Conference presentations point to LiDAR’s growing preeminence in offshore wind measurement
Wind measurement experts gathered in London in June concluded that LiDAR technology had over the years fully proven its ability to provide wind measurements...
Vision system for biomass boilers becomes available in the UK
Bio-waste handling and processing firm Tidy Planet is bringing to the UK market an Artificial Vision System (AVS) for boilers - described as "the...
Uncrewed vessel survey is a first in Irish waters
An Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) has been launched off the Co. Louth coast to undertake an environmental survey of the seabed. This is seemingly...
Study looks for lithium ‘fingerprint’ from space
A team of data scientists at the Satellite Applications Catapult is leading a new study, funded by Innovate UK, to see if it is possible to detect a lithium ‘fingerprint’ from space
Acoustic landscape monitoring suggested as a game-changer for biodiversity improvement
AgriSound team member Calum Pheby with "Polly".
What's described as the world's first fully automated acoustic 'panoramic' landscape monitoring system, which can report in...
Bat technology sounds out sewer problems
Lanes Group says it has become the first wastewater network contractor in the UK to commercially deploy pipe inspection technology that uses sound to...
Measuring oil contamination in soil
Petroleum hydrocarbons in soil continues to be an area of interest for scientists as they are the most common contaminants that are toxic to...
Micropollutants under the (electron) microscope: Project reveals drainage detritus
A recent project seems to lift the lid on some of the microscopic material washed into drainage systems by commercial and industrial activity. Environmental...
Doppler resonance LIDAR promises advances in sensitivity and real-time performance for atmospheric research
Sensitive enough to detect laser beam reflections from single atoms 100 km away even in broad daylight
Atmospheric research uses pulsed laser beams to measure...
IoT project will assess impact of climate change on forests, and inform UK policymaking
A trial is underway in forests in Surrey and Northumberland to assess the potential for Internet of Things (IoT) technology to monitor tree growth...
Survey identifies significant micro plastic pollution on summit of Snowdon
Geoscience technology firm CGG has conducted a microplastics pollution survey as part of a scoping study into whether it would be possible to create...
First demonstration that forests trap airborne microplastics
A research group in Japan has demonstrated that airborne microplastics adsorb to the epicuticular wax on the surface of forest canopy leaves, and that...
New generation microbial identification and colony counting software
Synbiosis, a long-established manufacturer of automated microbiological systems, has announced the availability of its next generation Chromogenic ID software module for the ProtoCOL 3...
