Geospatially Africa Podcast - The Podcast for the Geospatial Community. GIS, RS, Drones, Africa

Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) is an operational platform, which provides analysis ready data (satellite data) to address sustainable development challenges and support decision making in the 54 countries in Africa, moving beyond the Africa Regional Data Cube (ARDC). DE Africa platform can be accessed by anyone for free. Instead of download a lot of satellite images to your computer, DE Africa provides the where you can perform different analysis on the data (Landsat, Sentinel, DEM, etc) after which you can export the results to your computer.

 DE Africa has created the water observation from space (WOFS) for the whole continent. Working closely with the AfriGEO community, it will be responsive to the information needs, challenges and priorities of the African continent. DE Africa will leverage and build on existing capacity to enable the use of EO to address key challenges across the continent. 

DE Africa is currently developing the crop mask for the whole of Africa in support of food security and SDG 2 and the Geomad product. There are also resources that you use to learn and start using Digital Earth Africa for your projects.

Digital Earth Africa Links

DE Africa Website: https://www.digitalearthafrica.org

DE Africa Twitter here: @DEarthAfrica

DE Africa Training email: [email protected]

DE Africa on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digitalearthafrica/mycompany/

Contact Dr Kenneth Mubea

Twitter @kenmubea and

LinkedIn Kenneth Mubea

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In this episode, we talked about climate change and how it contributes to geohazards around the world and how there is need for increase in the application of geospatial technology in the mapping, visualizing and identifying hazards and to contribute to early warning and risk management. The episode also focused on GRMI an initiative in Nigeria focused on reducing flood risk and contribution to flood risk management through the application of geospatial information technology. 

Taiwo Ogunwumi who heads the initiative talks about how the team which is driven by passionate volunteers uses GIT in their work, the open datasets they use and the methodology they follow. The importance of volunteering our skills to help out and promote a sustainable environment is also touched upon

Volunteer at GRMI

https://www.georiskmap.org

Taiwo Ogunwumi

taiwoogunwumi.com 

Twitter @tyhwoh5

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