SINGAPORE - The fight against climate change could get a leg-up with a collaboration between two players to enhance solutions that can be applied to areas such as monitoring greenhouse gas emissions and the quality of coastal waters.
ST Engineering Geo-Insights and the National University of Singapore s Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (NUS Crisp) are joining forces to research, develop and commercialise advanced remote sensing technologies and geospatial imagery analytics solutions.
Remote sensing technology refers to the use of a sensor, such as a camera mounted on a satellite, to capture images of a particular area, while in geospatial imagery analytics, software using artificial intelligence (AI), for example, is used to extract information from images collected by the cameras.
SINGAPORE - Researchers looking at ways to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission have found that plants, natural fibre ionisers and air filters are effective in reducing aerosol concentrations in the air, and can take safe management to the next level.
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A Star) and Temasek Foundation, working with research agencies here, have come up with a new handbook of measures that individuals, families and companies can take, as the nation opens up further.
These solutions are now being offered to businesses, organisations, as well as families and individuals to explore what best fit their needs and circumstances, said the agencies in a release on Thursday (Feb 25).
SINGAPORE - Current satellite technology such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) that can track the whereabouts of dementia patients or special needs individuals are often imprecise with a margin of error of up to 10m, meaning the person one is looking for could be on the opposite side of the road or in a different building.
The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) is now trying to plug the distance gap with a competition dubbed the GNSS Innovation Challenge, which will be launched on Thursday (Feb 25).
Working together with private space-technology company Singapore Space and Technology Limited (SSTL), SLA wants tertiary students to develop a small enough device, worn on the wrist, that can more accurately pinpoint where the wearer is, with a margin of error of less than a metre.
SINGAPORE - Dr Si-Hui Tan had already developed a keen interest in mathematics and science in secondary school.
From Raffles Girls School she went on to pursue advanced mathematics and a degree in physics, and eventually earned herself a post-doctorate degree in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Today, the 40-year-old is the chief science officer at a local start-up, Horizon Quantum Computing. The company aims to make quantum computing more accessible to software developers.
Inspired by the possibilities a quantum computer could offer in everyday use, Dr Tan has set to work, building software that will compile, or convert, classical codes so that they could be run on quantum computers.