“Hémera” Earth Observation Center was created in 2017 to fill the need of pushing knowledge and innovation in remote sensing application and research through strategic alliances with public and private sector at both national and international level, to impulse and support the development of agriculture, forest management and conservation, mining industry, tourism, and energy sector, among others.
The Regional Government of Atacama has unveiled an updated territorial information platform that becomes a key resource for public management, evidence-based planning, and open access to updated regional data.
Dalia Marín, a student of the Master’s in Remote Sensing at Universidad Mayor, was awarded the 2025 University Research Valorization Fund (VIU) with her project Sibila, an innovative proposal that seeks to predict landslides through artificial intelligence, machine learning, and geophysical models.
Researcher Paul Amouroux, faculty member at the Hémera Center of Universidad Mayor, has been awarded the Innovation + Entrepreneurship grant from ANID’s Ciencia 2030 program to lead the project “HEPiaspis: Entomopathogenic fungi for the biological control of pest scale insects”
