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How hot is the soil?
The Surface Energy Budget While the sun is beating down on the Earth’s surface, it
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TWIGA Disdro Network: How is it going in Kenya
My last blog was on how we developed Kenya’s disdro network, how the sensors work
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DIGITAL BUILDING BLOCKS TO GO BEYOND PILOTS FOR FOOD SECURITY
Most geodata applications for food security are still in the pilot stage. Geodata specialists tend
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GEODATA FOR AGTECH AND FINTECH
There is quite some interest in geodata applications for inclusive finance for smallholder farmers. The
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Using the South African GNSS network to monitor country-wide atmospheric water vapour
The South African GNSS network (TrigNet, website) counts 64 stations distributed all over the country,
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Flood Mapping: Case of Narok County, Kenya
Floods, described as the overflow of water in a particular region that is normally dry
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Getting location right: from meter to cm positioning accuracy
Prototyping a low-cost continuous GNSS monitoring network for positioning and atmospheric purposes in Ghana Imagine
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Report on Citizen Scientist Training in Nakasongola District, Kalungi and Lwabwata Sub-counties
Background Work package 4 (Biosphere), one of the 4 main TWIGA work packages implemented at
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SAR-derived water vapor maps for meteorological applications: processing advancement.
Numerical Weather Prediction Models (NWPM) can significantly benefit from the ingestion of SAR-derived products like