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AAAS 2008 Annual Meeting - Boston, 14-18 February 2008 |
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Within the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, the SERAC unit organises a symposium "Biometrics in Border Management - Grand Chalenges for Security, Identity and Privacy".
The session will be moderated by Alois Sieber and includes the following presentations:
Grand Challenges in Border Security in the 21st Century--Erik Berglund, FRONTEX, Warsaw, Poland Border Control Technologies: From an Eye in the Sky to a Great Invisible Wall--Peter Hanel, Motorola Research Europe, Vienna, Austria Biometric Identity: The Next Challenge for Nonproliferation?--Gus Hosein, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom Trusted Traveler: Trustworthy Electronic Identity Across International Borders--Jean-Marie Willigens, Deutsche Lufthansa, Cologne, Germany Biometric Passports at European Borders Control--Pravir Chawdhry, Joint Research Center, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Italy The Fine Line of Standardization: Too Little Too Late or Too Much Too Soon?--Patrick Grother, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
The American Association for the Advancement of Science |
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European Software defined radio for wireless in joint security operations (EULER) |
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 | The EULER project aims to define and actually demonstrate how the benefits of SDR can be leveraged in order to drastically enhance interoperability and fast deployment in case of crisis needed to be jointly resolved.
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Ultra-Wide-Band Short Course |
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| The Joint Research Centre (JRC) organises a Short Course on Ultra-Wide-Band Systems on September 3 to 6, 2007. The course will transfer a thorough understanding of the characterization, differences, advantages and drawbacks of Ultra-Wide-Band techniques and technologies in all presently foreseen areas of applications, compared to state of the art narrow band applications. The course will combine theoretical lessons, given by Prof. Wiesbeck of the University of Karlsruhe and his team, with laboratory activities and measurements in the JRC facilities. |
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Snow Cover Monitoring in the Swiss Alps with a GB-SAR |
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The field campaign described in this article has
provided the first archive of ground based synthetic aperture radar imagery for
the study of the snow cover. Different radar signatures are present in the
archive, such as those corresponding to natural avalanches,artificially
triggered avalanches, snow fall, snowdrift, etc. corresponding to two winter
seasons, and accompanied by ground truth (meteorological) data. This variety of
data will allow the study of different aspects of the snow cover. The snow
height retrieval, as well as the detection and classification of spontaneous
avalanches, have already been introduced in this article, confirming the
potential use of GB-SAR for the monitoring of dry snow. But there is still work
to be done... |
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