Capturing thermal images through drones that will fly over the University of Santiago de Chile, Jairo Herrera Painenao, a student of Land/Geomatics Engineering, will detect possible heat islands in our campus.
His thesis work is entitled “Analysis of thermal images for the detection of possible heat islands at the University of Santiago de Chile”, and his guiding professor is Dr. Marcelo Caverlotti.
“Study of the sinking of the Atacama Salt Flat using synthetic aperture radar images” is the title of the study conducted by Roberto Montoya Araya and Marisol Alegría González, both students of Land/Geomatics Engineering, whose lead professor is Dr. Marcelo Caverlotti.
The record will measure the terrain of the largest salt deposit in Chile, which according to a recent study led by the University of Chile, is sinking at a rate of between 1 and 2 centimeters per year.
This initiative arises through the open innovation platform Sinapsis Usach, managed by the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Dinem) of the Vice Rector's Office for Research, Innovation and Creation (Vriic), which announced the teams selected for the Pre Sinapsis stage, where Campus Vivo was one of the 9 projects chosen in the category Sustainable Usach Challenge.
Called “Phatima ka ti Nyeleti” (“brightness of the stars” in the Changana language), students from the Universidad de Santiago developed a sustainable lighting project for isolated areas with two objectives: reduce the electrification gap and protect Mozambique’s astronomical heritage.