5 articles in this issue
Lucio Cañete Arratia
Editorial
Paz Díaz Castillo
This paper proposes a method for measuring the autarky of a country based on its technology. The procedure regards an Internal Technological level that depends on technology management and a Self-Sufficiency Potential quantified by the percentage of goods... see more
Since humanity is facing a Global Warming where some of its effects will be both the rise of ocean levels and the increase aggressiveness of storm surges, many States located in low-lying islands are at risk of losing part of its surface and even disappea... see more
Víctor Herrera G., Patricio Flores P., Carlos Eissmann R.
Today Chile has no elevation model (DEM) with national character. Analyzed from the point of view of science and geomatics technologies, a DEM and the orthoimages may be updated in their respective scales 1:25,000 and 1:50,000, these are essential for nat... see more
Jorge Zavalla Vásquez
Close to Caldera city in the Atacama Desert, a paleontological site of marine vertebrate fossils of Pliocene and Pleistocene was accidentally discovered. There were no previous studies of this coastal area until 2012, when a team of paleontologists made a... see more