May 18 2025
Like many parents we use Microsoft Family Safety to limit screen time of our children. It turns out that the default screen time is … 15 HOURS PER DAY !!!!! So when you register a Microsoft device (e.g. Windows computer or Xbox) for your 9 year old, the default screen time for your 9 year …
Mar 09 2012
Introduction Google Maps and Google Earth (hereafter Google Maps) are publicly available tools useful to visually explore the geography of our planet. Globally distributed high resolution satellite data are used as a background to dynamically map physical, geographical, historical, socio-economic or political thematic layers. Nowadays the average, educated person with access to the internet either …
Dec 23 2005
The Swiss NGO Paneco is engaged in Sumatra (Indonesia) where anthropogenic land use changes threaten local fauna and flora. The collaboration with Paneco has started with a small project that aimed at diagnosing rainfall intensity of a storm from TRMM 3B42 space radar data due to a lack of locally available rain gauges. The project …