Drone training at KNUST in Kumasi
The recipe for a successful drone training week: 11 motivated participants. 1 Flying Sensor. 1 challenging task to perform. Perfect facilities (Thank you Mr Isaac Duodu from Kumasi Business Incubator!). The right assistance (Mr Joel Budu from Farmerline!). That`s what it takes to perform a week`s training and finish it successfully. Coming from different professional backgrounds […]
Of Science and Sensors: TWIGA at AGU
Of Science and Sensors: TWIGA at AGU The Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is each year one of the highlights of many environmental scientists. The conference is probably the biggest gathering of earth and environmental sciences in the world, with around 25,000 attendees. This year the event landed in the cavernous convention […]
From “nice idea” to “actionable information
An important output of the TWIGA project will be new geo-services (twenty!) based on the application of innovative sensors. In order to speed up the development of these services, a Hackathon was organized from 19 through 23 November 2018 at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi Ghana. The objective was to […]
How to obtain actionable requirements from users?
It is well admitted that data alone does not provide solutions. The data needs to be processed and converted into practical applications to be useful and generate profit. With the same approach, we may say that general market trends or global challenges do not provide user requirements. These challenges need to be downscaled and converted […]
