The weekend wasn’t very helpful to Edzani, once a powerful Cyclone, now weakened to a tropical storm in the Southern Indian Ocean. That’s because of cooler waters and increased wind shear. On Monday, January 11 at 10 a.m. ET (1500 UTC) Edzani’s maximum sustained winds were near 52 mph (45 knots). Edzani’s center was about [...]
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New satellite maps of Haiti coming in
January 16th, 2010 
admin As rescue workers scramble to provide assistance to hundreds of thousands of people following Haiti’s earthquake, Earth observation satellite data continues to provide updated views of the situation on the ground. Following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January, international agencies requested satellite data of the area from the International Charter on ‘Space [...]
Industry corruption, shoddy construction likely contributed to Haiti quake devastation
January 16th, 2010 admin The death toll in the massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti Jan. 12 is expected to continue to rise in the coming days, likely in large part because of corruption and resulting shoddy construction practices in the poor Caribbean nation, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder seismologist. The earthquake hit about 10 miles [...]
Vetenskapsradet funds four new CMIV projects
September 17th, 2009 admin Four CMIV researchers have been awarded project grants of a total value of 4.9 MSEK distributed over three years from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsradet): Magnus Borga “Advanced signal processing methods for high quality functional magnetic resonance imaging”, Jan Engvall “Pressure and flow in heart and vessels”, Toste Lanne “Mechanical properties of the vessel wall [...]
Summer School on Level Set Methods and ITK
September 17th, 2009 admin The SSBA summer school on level set methods and ITK (Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit) is arranged 22-24 of August by the Medical Informatics group at the Department of Medical Engineering. Ken Museth (ITN, Linköping University) and Karl Krissian (LMI, Brigham & Women´s Hospital / Harvard Medical School) are invited speakers and around 30 people [...]
