Posts on the Topic "satellites"
Recording of the e-Agriculture webinar on the FarmerLink in the Philippines: Digital Innovation for Agriculture
15/05/2018
On the 25th of April 2018 the e-Agriculture team organized a webinar in partnership with Grameen Foundation on the FarmerLink in the Philippines: Digital Innovation for Agriculture. The webinar presented the strategy used to develop and deploy FarmerLink, and review results of an 18-month pilot...
FAO is using drones to help end hunger
24/01/2018
FAO is using drones to fight hunger, improve nutrition and counter the effects of climate change and extreme weather events. A documentary from Asia and the Pacific Office of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization shows collaboration with countries to leverage the used of ICTs using drones...
Weather updates twice a day as apps transform farming
14/12/2017
SciDevNet published an article supported by the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA). The article focuses on the various apps that are available in agriculture as curated by the Apps4Ag database. The example of Farmerline app is highlighted; this app gives smallholder farmers...
Further, faster, together: The vital role of ICTs in mitigating and adapting to climate change
17/11/2017
What has ICTs to do with climate change? Malcolm Johnson the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Deputy Secretary General, answers this question in the published news items coinciding with the COP23 that was discussing The Paris Agreement. He positions ICTs as a solution to the current...
Kukua: Weather Data and forecasting services for local farmers in Africa
09/11/2017
Africa’s economy is based largely agriculture and most of them being smallholder farmers. One of the challenges these family farmers face is access to weather information and forecasting services. Lack of access to relevant weather information is due to lack of access of weather source information...
Week 2 round up on the introduction to drones learning activity
31/10/2017
From 16 to 27 October, e-Agriculture Team organized the “introduction to drones in agriculture’ learning activity. This self-learning activity is intended to increase the appreciation of and knowledge on the use of drones in agriculture and rural development to members and followers of the e...
SatSure uses big data analytics and satellite imagery to help farmers in the agricultural insurance sector
11/08/2017
SatSure is a data analytics company which integrates satellite, weather, and IoT analytics with the agriculture sector in order to help farmer's financial security and crop insurance. India is facing severe consequences due to climate change, such as droughts and floods. In the agricultural sector...
Collect Earth: Land Use and Land Cover Assessment through Augmented Visual Interpretation
31/07/2017
Collect Earth is a free and open source software for land monitoring developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The software is part of the set of tools called Open Foris, and was developed with Google Earth, Bing Maps and Google Earth Engine. Collect Earth is...
Global Forest Watch - Monitoring forests in near real time
17/05/2017
Global Forest Watch (GFW) is an interactive online forest monitoring and alert system designed for users to access the information they need to better manage and conserve forest landscapes. The mission of the Global Forest Watch is to provide the most precise information about the status of forest...