Central Europe

Central Europe & the USSR

Snow Service Central Europe

Information on snow cover and snow properties is an important factor for hydrology and runoff modeling. Frequent updates of snow cover information can help to improve water balance and discharge calculations. Within the frame of Polar View, snow products from multisensoral satellite data are operationally provided to control and update water balance models for large parts of Southern Germany. T...

Central Europe & the USSR

Central and Eastern Europe: Floods

affected persons in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, was fully covered. The generous response of donors, backed up by a similar gesture from local communities, allowed all aspects of the operation (emergency relief, post-emergency relief, and rehabilitation) to be effected. Problems with communications and lack of Disaster Preparedness know-how were surmounted and valuable less...

Virtual Heart of Central Europe

1 ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION We present a cultural heritage oriented EC project for documentation, digital preservation, and on-line dissemination of selected towers, wells, and rarities in Prague, Graz, Maribor, and Bratislava. We overview the methodology, technology, and digital content including digital storytelling. The results contribute to semantic web and digital libraries European Research A...