Provide currently unavailable geo-information on weather, water, and climate for sub-Saharan Africa by enhancing satellite-based geo-data with innovative in-situ sensors and developing related information services that answer the needs of African stakeholders and the GEOSS community.
For phytosanitary services, it is often necessary to know how humid one's environment is.
By extrapolating cloud movements, it may be possible to develop a short-term prediction for the amount of solar radiation reaching the surface
Delivery of GNSS observations collected by the TWIGA low-cost GNSS network/s
Urban drainage networks in Africa tend to clog at bottlenecks with discarded plastic. A camera will take regular pictures and transform the image into a simple measure of accumulation.
Mapping open water floods + vegetated flooded areas, combining Sat. RS with UAV. Countries: Kenya and Ghana. Products: River cross-sections and DEM + Flood map + Training
Crop detection, crop stress monitoring using flying sensors, NIR, NDVI, early detection, UAV. Countries: Kenya and Ghana. Products: NDVI maps, crop classification maps
TWIGA fosters a careful balance between technology push by academia and companies and technology pull by governments and other end users
We pride ourselves in being able to come up with credible solutions in no time, achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.
Taking care of the environment is at the forefront of our goals. This is one of our core responsibilities and we take pride in it.
We are made up of a team of experts in different fields who are committed to providing solutions and supporting the ecosystem.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No.776691.
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