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Open Geospatial Consortium has adopted the PUCK standard, which facilitates plug-and-play connections of electronic equipment. The standard is relatively simple, and several manufacturers have already implemented the protocol in their instruments' firmware. It augments existing instrument command sets without replacing them, so it can be implemented without abandoning existing firmware and software applications. The standard was originally developed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) for oceanographic applications, but is useful in any sensor network containing RS232 or Ethernet-connected instruments. »» 0 comment(s)
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| 01/02/2012 |
 TRE and the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy, in collaboration with the Department of Earth Sciences (University of Florence) have been monitoring the movement of the partially submerged cruise ship Costa Concordia since 20th January 2012 off the coast of Giglio Island. High-resolution images from the Italian COSMO-SkyMed constellation of satellites are being used to provide information on the position and movement of the ship, for integration with ground warning systems. »» 0 comment(s)
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The largest solar particle event since 2005 has been detected by the radiation-monitoring instrument aboard the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, on its way from Earth to Mars. RAD Principal Investigator Don Hassler, science programme director in the Space Studies Department at Southwest Research Institute, said that they have only downloaded a few hours of data from the RAD so far, but that the event is clearly visible. 
