Publications

Ever since GSM (Global Systems for Mobile Communications) extended the accessibility of mobile phones to almost every member of our society, the drive for wireless communications has been relentless. This has, however, put enormous pressure on the provision of the essential resource needed for wireless information exchange – the radio spectrum. As a result, the radio spectrum – initially a wireless facilitator – has now become a bottleneck. Ironically, it is this same spectrum which often inhibits the innovation of new services and impacts on the outreach, capacity and quality of service of current wireless communications systems.

These proceedings are a collection of abstracts from the final COST E47 conferences on forest vegetation management hosted by University of Copenhagen. A key benefit of the Action was the establishment of a European forum for the management of forest vegetation, where co-operation between the main players in the forest industry in Eruope together with the scientific institutions is intended to give leadership and create networks providing data and information for national forest services and the public.

Thanks to COST Action 724, space weather now has a European definition: Space weather is the physical and phenomenological state of natural space environments. The associated discipline aims, through obversation, monitoring, analysis and modeling, at understanding and predicting the state of the Sun, the interplanetary and planetary environments, and the solar and non-solar driven perturbations that affect them, and also at forecasting and nowcasting the potential impacts on biological and technological systems.