NEWS
Supervisory visit of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia
As part of the regular monitoring of the progress of our Predict-Er project, a supervisory visit was carried out by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia. On this occasion, the Science Fund and World Bank experts within the SAIGE project, prof. Dr. Andjelka Mihajlov, an expert on environmental protection and ethical issues, and Dr. Siniša Radulović, an expert on ethical issues, visited the Predict-Er research team at the Institute of Nuclear Sciences “Vinča”, University of Belgrade, where the members of the supervisory team got informed with the previous activities and achived results.
We are pleased that the Science Fund recognized our team’s dedication to realizing the project goals. You can find details about this visit on the Science Fund’s Instagram profile, where photos and impressions from the field are published.
We want to thank the Science Fund for its support and constructive suggestions, which will contribute to the project’s continued success.
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Approved topic of doctoral dissertation
The Scientific Council of Natural Sciences of the University of Belgrade (September 19, 2024) accepted the topic of the doctoral dissertation of our PhD student, Aleksandar Cupic, entitled “Mapping and quantifying soil erosion in the Malčanska River Basin using a combination of remote sensing methods and 137Cs activity spectrometry”. Dr. Marko Daković, associate professor of the Faculty of Physical Chemistry, and Dr. Snežana Dragović, principal research fellow of the “VINČA” Institute of Nuclear Sciences, were appointed as dissertation mentors.
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New equipment provided
by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia
We are pleased to inform you that the research equipment of Project Predict-Er has been upgraded with new TB65 batteries for the DJI M300 drone. Thanks to these batteries, the duration od our field recordings has been extended. This will have a direct impact on increasing the speed od data collection, as the longer flight time allows continous recordings of wider areas without the need for frequent landings to recharge the batteries. The equipment was provided by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, within the PRISMA program.
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The importance of healthy soil for food availability in Serbia – The role of scientific data in evidence-based decision-making
On June 14, 2024, our team member Prof. Ranko Dragović attended the conference “The importance of healthy soil for food availability in Serbia – The role of scientific data in evidence-based decision-making,” organized by the United Nations Food Agriculture Organization, held in Belgrade. During the discussion, Prof. Dragović presented the innovative goals of the Predict-Er project and the importance of predicting erosion using a combination of traditional and modern methods and tools. He emphasized the importance of creating a new map of soil erosion in Serbia on a larger scale as the existing map, used since 1985, does not correspond to the real situation in several locations.
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New equipment provided
by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia
by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia
We are pleased to inform you that our research team has been enriched with the Hesai RESEPI XT32M2X UAV LiDAR system from Inertial Labs, provided by the Science Fund Of the Republic of Serbia, within the PRISMA program. This advanced technology will greatly improve our ability to collect high-precision point clouds, which will have a key impact on the further development of our project in the areas of modeling and analysis of digital terrain models.
We would like to thank the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia for its support.
You can find more details about equipment on the manufacturers website.
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TRACING 2024: Emerging strategies of sediment and contaminant tracing in catchments and river systems
Our PhD student attended a workshop “TRACING 2024: Emerging strategies of sediment and contaminant tracing in catchments and river systems” in France, March 3 – 7, 2024 where he presented our project and exchanged experience in latest research and innovations in the field of sediment fingerprinting.
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