Was a Roman road under my garden earlier? – Diepresse.com
The climate facts of the week report digitized maps of the past, of the tact at the old clothing collection, of glaciers who are not tenth degree, and extended mountain sports summer seasons.
Find the streets of the Romans, old fields, rivers and forests. University of Graz makes maps of the past newly visible.
The team around Wolfgang Göderle the University of Graz is practiced to bring traces of the past to light. Were it still Questions about the imperial administrationare it now disappeared landscapes that im FWF project « Movement in space and time » come alive digitally. Use AI become historical cards (e.g. from maps.arcanum.com))) Compared to current material and made visible.
The goal is a software that everyone can call up, how their own garden looked 200 years ago, where Roman roads were 2000 years ago, in which region was agricultural areas, forests or cold settlements. Göderle: « We get an overall picture of how settlements, agricultural areas and road processes have changed. »
Senatic sensitivity: The robot should feel the fabric. The recycling of old clothing will soon be sorted better.
Old clothing and other textiles that land in recycling are mostly sorted by humans. Machines mainly work with contactless systems that do not recognize subtleties in the material well. Human observation and sensitivity decide much faster and more precisely which fabric belongs in which bin.
In the FFG project « Adaptex » Developed a team from Institute for Intelligent System Technologies the Uni Klagenfurt A robot skin and equips the gripping arms in recycling systems with sensors. « The robots are supposed to work with different types of different materials with different shapes and sizes, » says project manager Hubert Zangl. The new gripes then make sorting more economical and thus increase the recycling quota.
Calculated: Each tenth degree counts for glaciers
Using eight glacier models, an international research group simulated how glaciers develop over several centuries. One of the results of the study in Science (Co-ore author is Lilian Schuster of the University of Innsbruck): When receiving the non-polar glacier mass, it is about every tenth degree. If, on the other hand, it even runs to limit global global warming to 1.5 degrees instead of 2.7 ° C to which we are heading for, twice as much ice could be saved-even then only 54 percent of non-polar glaciers would be left. Because glaciers lying in northern latitudes are reacting very slowly, one cannot conclude from their current size to the extent of the climate change that has already been made.
Extended: there is more time for mountain sports
The “Klima.Sport.Schneee” team from Germany, Austria and Switzerland has the latest report about the « Perspectives of winter and mountain sports in the sign of global climate change » published. This time, the effects on mountain sports in the summer months are also observed. So far, average warming has been reached 2.5 ° C in Germany since pre -industrial times, 3.1 ° C in Austria and 2.9 ° C in Switzerland. Even if all climate protection measures are implemented, at least another 2 ° C are added up to 2100. This extends the season for hiking, cycling, bathing and water sports; But with more heat loads.
