Publications

INTERCAFE COST Action 635 Final Report IV

This book addresses a broad spectrum of relevant issues in the emerging field of urban flood management.

This book provides an overview of digital television in 23 European countries. The focus is on the introduction and present status of digital television (DTV) in Europe with specific attention to the initiators of DTV in the different countries, pre-commercial pilot projects, the role of the government and the actual available technical systems, offers (content, interactive services) and prices. As Europe finds itself in the middle of the transition of television, this book offers insight into the specific charecteristics of the implemenation of DTV in each country. It is foremost a snapshot of the introduction and status of DTV since the late nineties. However, we believe it will appeal to industry, policy makers and academic researchers in media and communication studies, media policy and social studies of technology.

Book of abstracts from the final meeting of COST Action D32.

The COST Action 716 “Exploitation of Ground-based GPS for Operational Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Applications” was prepared during 1997 and 1998 when a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was written and approved. The necessary signatures, from different countries, were obtained during the autumn of 1998 and its kick-off meeting was held in January 1999. Around that time many European countries had installed, or had plans for, continuously operating ground-based GPS networks to be used as geodetic references, support surveying and navigation, and deliver data for basic research studying the dynamics of the earth. It has by then also been realized that information about the atmospheric water vapour content above each receiving antenna was obtained from the accurate geodetic GPS data analysis.
Water vapour is difficult to measure, but is of great importance for accurate modelling of the dynamics of the atmosphere, both for weather prediction and for climate applications. The possibility to have continuous time series of the water vapour content was therefore identified as a potential new important data source. It was time for a collaboration, and coordination at the European level, and geodesists and meteorologists were invited to work together within the COST Action 716.