A satellite has joined the battle against tree parasites

December 2021 – The new ySpace from the software laboratory YMS in Trnava is monitoring the growth of parasites in forest undergrowths on selected areas of the Forests of the Slovak Republic. It collects and evaluates satellite data from European Sentinel satellites and helps foresters determine, which areas it attacks the hardest and where and how to intervene most effectively.

YMS research team prepared a prototype erosion calculator

May 2021 – Erosion calculator is a modern interactive tool that, with high accuracy, analyzes the loss of soil caused by running water (water erosion) in the country and models the value of its loss with the help of different measures such as modification of farmed crops, agrotechnical intervention or a combination of both.