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DLR led a Special Issue in the International Journal of Remote Sensing, April 2014

admin — Thu, 08 May 2014 12:49:47 +0000

“Remote Sensing the Mekong”. This is the title of a Special Issue of the International Journal of Remote Sensing, published in April 2014. The special issue contains a variety of scientific papers dealing with pressing questions related to the Mekong. The issue contains studies on extensive land cover product comparisons for the Mekong Basin, research on climate change impacts especially in the upper catchment of the Mekong, an array of wetland analyses for the Mekong Delta or Tonle Sap Lake, as well as analyses of Mekong Delta coastal water sediment load, amongst other. Dr.

Tran Thai Binh defended his PhD succesfully at University of Bonn, December 4th, 2013

vklinger — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:03:11 +0000

On December the 4th early in the morning, Tran Thai Binh successfully defended his thesis with the title "The knowledge-based search for water-related information system for the Mekong Delta, Vietnam". Binh developed an ontology in order to provide holistic results to user queries. E.g. if a user wants to monitor floods in a special region within a defined period od time, then Binh's system returns relevant datasets showing water level information, inundation maps as well as relevant literature and statistical data on the topic.

WISDOM Project Presentation at DFD-DLR Institute Evaluation, October 2013

admin — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:14:03 +0000

At the end of October 2013 the WISDOM project was one item on the agenda of the DLR-DFD Institute Evaluation in Oberpfaffenhofen.
During the 3-day evaluation process, an advisory group of 11 external experts from science and industry as well as internal DLR advisors examined research results at German Aerospace Center (DLR).
The WISDOM Information System was presented live as one successful outcome of an applied research project during the internal tour for the panel of experts.

WISDOM Closure Meeting at DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen

admin — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:55:07 +0000

On September 19th, 2013 the WISDOM Closure Meeting was organized by DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen. About 30 WISDOM scientists including several PhD candidates from the WISDOM PhD Programme participated in this last project meeting. After a comprehensive summary of the second project phase given by the project leader Claudia Künzer all Work Package leaders held presentations on accomplished work of the second WISDOM phase. Furthermore, they reported the status of the PhD work and their expected finalization.

New report about Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) published by ZEF

vklinger — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 22:00:00 +0000

Local Entrepreneurship in Vietnam’s Rural Transformation: A Case Study from the Mekong Delta

This report provides an overview of the main results of a survey on small and mediumsized
enterprises, implemented in Can Tho City, Mekong Delta in 2011 ‐ 2012.

José Miguel Delgado successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Potsdam, June 10th, 2013

vklinger — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 07:04:20 +0000

On Monday June 10th José Miguel Delgado successfully defended his Dissertation entitled "Explaining change in flood hazard in the Mekong river - the hypothesis of nonstationary variance" at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Potsdam. In his work José analysed the flood regime of the Mekong river and detected significant changes in variance of the annual floods.

WISDOM 6th PhD Scientific Seminar

vklinger — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:33:59 +0000

Organized and hosted by UNU-EHS, the third PhD Scientific Seminar of WISDOM’s second project phase took place from June 10th to 12th, 2013 at the UN Campus in Bonn. Together with the three seminars held in the first phase, this was the sixth such an event which provided the PhD students the opportunity to present and discuss their research results with fellow researchers within the project. Additionally, invited experts were also involved in discussions of possible synergies and the integration of research findings into the WISDOM Information System.

Vo Quoc Tuan successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Kiel, May 24th, 2013

admin — Mon, 27 May 2013 07:12:44 +0000

Vo Quoc Tuan, who has been working at the German Aerospace Center, DLR, for the past 3.5 years successfully defended his PhD thesis at University of Kiel on May 24th 2013. His thesis has been associated to the WISDOM project, while funding came from a Worldbank Grant via Can Tho University, CTU. Topic of the thesis has been the valuation of ecosystem services of mangrove forests in the coastal Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau. Vo Quoc Tuan has published two SCI papers in renowned journals, and a third paper is currently under review.

MONRE received the WISDOM Information System

moder_flo — Thu, 16 May 2013 03:02:22 +0000

On the 14th of March MONRE received the hard- und software to run the WISDOM Information System within their institute. The handover was accompanied with a two day workshop. The first day provided an update on new functionalities for users and administrators. The second day gave a roadmap to MONRE on technical and institutional steps, which are necessary operationalize the Information System. The workshop was concluded by the handover of the Server, including the preinstalled Information System as well as the extensive technical documentation.

New publication of SISS and ZEF: Water as a Strategic Resource: The Mekong Delta in Vietnam

admin — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:22:11 +0000

Nước là nguồn chiến lược: Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long (in English: Water as a Strategic Resource: The Mekong Delta in Vietnam) is the titel of a new book published im May 2013 by the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences (VASS). The book is a co-production of the Southern Institute of Social Sciences (SISS) in Ho Chi Minh City and the Center for Development Research (ZEF) in Germany (editors: Prof. Bui The Cuong und Prof. Solvay Gerke), who are both partners in the WISDOM project.