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Environment and Resources Management As we move further into the 21st century we are becoming ever more aware of the need to preserve the Earth’s sensitive ecosystem, to minimize the harmful effects of our own activities on the environment, and to husband and conserve natural resources.
Increasingly space technology is helping to supply the tools that enable us to do this.
Space systems and technologies can provide effective methods to monitor climate change and the impact of land and water use and development. They can also be adapted to improve the ways in which the Earth’s natural resources and agricultural systems can be managed and recycled. | | | | | | | | | | Giant robot helps prevent landslides
Fighting landslides is dangerous work, but help from space is on its way. Recent testing in Italy has shown that the four-tonne Roboclimber can secure slopes without endangering human lives, thanks to innovations from Europe's space programmes.
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| | | | | | | | | | Filming the 'green car' speed record
It was an uninspiring grey early morning on 4 November on the southern outskirts of Paris. EuroNews cameras were at the Brétigny flight test centre. But the engine revving up was not a jet fighter but a prototype racing car preparing to break a world record.
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| | | | | | | | | | Revitalizing forest products with space technology
Can advanced space technologies help the forest products industry? This will be the subject of a workshop, to be held in May in Stockholm, Sweden, in which representatives from the forest and wood products industry will interact and discuss issues, problems and challenges with space technology experts.
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Locating cracks in tunnel walls, monitoring landslides and providing high-insulation clothing are just some examples benefiting from space technology. Many such innovative applications will be discussed by ESA and European companies at the workshop ‘How space technology can provide effective solutions for challenges in mountains’ in Innsbruck, Austria, 28-29 October.
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| | | | | | | | | | Space robot will help prevent landslides
One of the largest robots ever constructed will also be one of the most agile, thanks to technology derived from ESA space missions. Known as Roboclimber, this new climbing machine is designed to prevent landslides without endangering human lives.
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