Introduction: The CityIQ column aims at developing a data model to provide evaluation services for global cities, undertaking sustainable development research tasks, relating to themes of urban planing, transportation, environment, safety and encouraging cities to provide data and best practices to support database construction and to improve the worldwide competences of city database and city evaluation system.

Source: Intelligent City Knowledge Service

Release date: Jun. 2022

Provided by: CAO Buyang

Introduction: CAE Member WU Zhiqiang believes that urban planning is particularly important for China. The history of urban development has repeatedly proved that the city as a human body needs to be organically combined with nature. Urban planning is not only to complete the artificial construction, but also to intervene in the ecological nature. Natural conditions are the first factor in urban planning, so it is necessary to integrate the artificial system and the natural ecosystem.

Source: Intelligent City Knowledge Service

Release date: May 2022

Provided by: LI Xiang

Introduction: Professor Dieter Frick is from Technische Universität Berlinis. He is the former director of the institute of urban and regional planning at TU Berlin. He is a representative scholar in the field of urban planning theory in Germany. In this lecture he emphasizes the viewpoint, in contrast to the tradition of the Modern Movement, that public space has to be the decisive component in creating and developing settlement units that are habitable in the true sense.

Source: Intelligent City Knowledge Service

Release date: Jun. 2022

Provided by: LI Xiang

Introduction: The United Nations Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Center was officially launched in Deqing County of China's Zhejiang province on May 20. The center is the first specialized agency directly under the auspices of United Nations in China. It is subordinate to the United Nations Department of economic and social affairs and is located in Deqing, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province.

Source: Intelligent City Knowledge Service

Release date: May 2022

Provided by: WANG Wei

Introduction: Forum THNS2022, entitled "Mobility Re-engineering under Technology and Societal Transformation ", is to be held online between 14th to 18th of November, 2022. 

Source: Intelligent City Knowledge Service

Release date: Jun. 2022

Provided by: WANG Wei

Introduction: A knowledge application for comprehensive display and inquiry of Semmelweis University in Hungary is built to comprehensively display four internationally recognized world university rankings, such as QS, THE, US News and ARWU rankings.

Source: Silk Road Sciences and Technology Knowledge Service

Release date: May 2022

Provided by: Zhang Qianglong

Introduction: React.js is a view library from Facecbook for building performant user-interfaces in JavaScript. In this session, we'll explore React.js and understand why it's a great step forward for building complex UI's that run fast. We'll code up an example web application using React.js and step through the basics of using the library while discussing concepts like the shadow DOM and components.

Source: Silk Road Sciences and Technology Knowledge Service

Release date: Jun. 2022

Provided by: Liu Jun

Introduction: The 113rd IKCEST Training Programme for Silk Road Engineering Science and Technology Development was held from Apr. 29th to May 8th, 2022. It was co-hosted by the International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology (IKCEST) under the Auspices of UNESCO and Xi'an Jiaotong University, and was organized by IKCEST Silk Road Training Base. 72 trainees from 4 countries such as Iran, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand participated in this training programme. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this training programme was held online.

Source: Silk Road Sciences and Technology Knowledge Service

Release date: Jun. 2022

Provided by: Ya Gao

Introduction: Since April this year, IKCEST has included another 129 journal articles, 570 videos and 6,117 pieces of news in the column titled COVID-19 Prevention and Control. To be specific, they are related to COVID-19-based policies and regulations, news and measures, experts viewpoints, science express, science popularization as well as citizen stories. Welcome everybody who is interested in those topics refers to them via the below link.

Source: IKCEST General Platform

Release date: Jun. 2022

Provided by: Cai Lingli, Zhang Xinxing, Wang Suyun

Introduction: This dataset was the drought distribution data of the Mongolian plateau from 1981 to 2012. It mainly described the drought conditions of different maps and different years of the Mongolian plateau. There were 32 grid files in total. They were collected and organized by the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. They could be used to study the occurrence and distribution of drought disasters, and provided an important basis for preventing drought disasters and reducing the negative impact of it.

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: Oct. 2020

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei

Introduction: The original data is the Sentinel ten-day data released by the Copernicus Data Center of ESA. It is obtained after cloud judgment, cloud removal, and data patching by removing and pixel-based median filtering. The data format is TIF format with a spatial resolution of 10 meters.

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: Oct. 2021

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei

Introduction: This lecture systematically introduces the international trend of scientific data sharing, big data of earth science and knowledge discovery, data and map display of the status of "the Belt and Road", data driven application in "the Belt and Road" and the framework of "the Belt and Road" spatial information system. Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service System

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: Jun. 2022

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei

Introduction: This lecture expounds from four aspects: the definition of debris flow and flood, the formation mechanism of debris flow, debris flow monitoring, examples of debris flow monitoring in China and analysis of results.

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: Jun. 2022

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei

Introduction: Just like flash floods, flash droughts come on fast—drying out soil in a matter of days to weeks. These events can wipe out crops and cause huge economic losses. And according to scientists, the speed at which they dry out the landscape has increased.

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: Jun. 2022

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei

Introduction: Lakes on the Mongolian Plateau are shrinking rapidly, according to researchers from Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. After analyzing several decades of satellite imagery, the researchers found that the total lake surface area had declined from 4,160 square kilometers (1,060 square miles) in the late 1980s to 2,900 square kilometers in 2010, a decrease of 30 percent. The authors attribute the losses to warming temperatures, decreased precipitation, and increased mining and agricultural activity.

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: Apr. 2022

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei

Introduction: Images in the wake of violent coastal storms usually focus purely on the extensive damages caused to beaches, dunes, property, and surrounding infrastructure. However, a new international study has shown that extreme weather events could help protect beaches from the impact of sea level rise-by bringing in new sand from deeper waters or from nearby beaches. The study, led by Dr Mitchell Harley from UNSW Water Research Laboratory, is published today in Nature Communications Earth & Environment.

Source: Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service

Release date: Jun. 2022

Provided by: Yuan Yuelei