What: Drones East Africa Conference 2017 Where: Nairobi, Kenya When: 20 - 21 June, 2017 Who: Connie Schmidt, Esri, Rwanda Why: To attended the conference to get up-to-date on the status and development of drone regulations and legislation in East Africa.
What: IST-Africa 2017 Conference Where: Windhoek, Namibia When: 31 May-2 June 2017 Who: John Horn, University of Twente/ITC, Netherlands Why: The 2017 IST Africa conference was held in Windhoek, Namibia over the period 31st May to 2nd June. Within this conference there was also a separate coordination meeting between the three current Horizon 2020 projects with African involvement. The [...]
What: its4land organised a workshop to test its newly developed QGIS plugin capable of delineating field boundaries Where: University of Twente/ITC, Enschede, Netherlands When: Tuesday 23 May 2017 Who: 14 volunteers Why: 14 volunteers, all MSc or PhD students from ITC, were asked to delineate visible land parcel boundaries once manually and once with the help of a newly developed [...]
What: ISPRS Workshop Where: Hannover, Germany When: 6 - 9 June, 2017 Who: Sophie Crommelinck, University of Twente/ITC, Netherlands Why: To attend the workshop to share the progress on its4land work package 5: 'Automate It', which aims to exploit the imagery captured in the UAV flights to enable automatic land tenure feature extraction and to exchange experiences.
What: Tech4land meeting 5.0 Where: ITC, Enschede, Netherlands When: 24 May 2017 Who: Malumbo Chipofya, Sahib Jan (WWU), Christian Timm (HL), Chiel Stroeven, Mila Koeva, Claudia Stocker, Sophie Crommelinck, Esther Hondebrink (ITC) Why: As part of a regular meeting pattern, we're getting together to discuss the recent developments in each work package and interactions and interfaces between [...]
What: FIG working week 2017 Where: Helsinki, Finland When: 29 May-2 June 2017 Who: Ine Buntinx, University of Leuven, Belgium Why: presentation on its4land: 'Implementing Innovative Land Tenure Tools In East-Africa: SWOT-Analysis Of Land Governance'.
What: IST-Africa 2017 Conference Where: Windhoek, Namibia When: 31 May-2 June 2017 Who: John Horn Why: presentation on its4land project
What: its4land MT11 Where: Online (participants from Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Rwanda, Kenya and Ethiopia) When: Thursday 11 May 2017 (14:00 - 16:00 CET) Who: its4land MT members Why: The MT meets on a regular basis, particularly with regards to milestone accountability and deliverables.
What: a new publication from the its4land project on the current state of UAV regulations around the world. Where: Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 459; http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/9/5/459 When: May 2017 Who: Claudia Stöcker, Rohan Bennett, Markus Gerke, Francesco Nex, Jaap Zevenbergen. Why: UAVs—unmanned aerial vehicles—facilitate data acquisition at temporal and spatial scales that still remain unachievable for traditional remote sensing platforms. However, current legal [...]
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