Flemish Institute for Technological Research

The Flemish institute for technological research or VITO, is a research centre, located in Mol, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium. The institute performs contract research and develops products and processes in the fields of energy, environment and materials, for both the public and the private sector. Dirk Fransaer is director of the institute.

Research domains

• Energy technology
• Environmental measurement
• Environmental and Process Technology
• Environmental toxicology
• Integrated Environmental Study
• Materials technology
• Remote Sensing and Earth Observation processes:
  • Image Processing Group
  • Global Vegetation Research Group
  • Agriculture Research Group
  • Local Imaging Spectroscopy Research Group
  • UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Research Group

See also

• BIOMED
• Flanders Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology (VIB)
• Flemish Energy Agency
• Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO)
• Innotek
• Institute for the promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT)
• Interdisciplinary institute for BroadBand Technology (IBBT)
• Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC)
• Science and technology in Flanders
• SCK•CEN
• Strategic Plan Campine

Source

• Schoeters G, Den Hond E, Zuurbier M, Naginiene R, van den Hazel P, Stilianakis N, Ronchetti R, Koppe JG., Cadmium and children: exposure and health effects, Acta Paediatr Suppl. 2006 Oct;95(453):50-4
• van der Lelie D, Corbisier P, Baeyens W, Wuertz S, Diels L, Mergeay M., The use of biosensors for environmental monitoring, Res Microbiol. 1994 Jan;145(1):67-74.
• Tirez K, Scharf H, Calzolari D, Cleven R, Kisser M, Lück D., Validation of a European standard for the determination of hexavalent chromium in solid material, J Environ Monit. 2007 Jul;9(7):749-59. Epub 2007 June 1.

External links

• VITO
• EMIS
• Vegetation image processing and archiving centre at VITO