What: NCG symposium 2018 Where: Wageningen, Netherlands When: 29 November 2018 Who: Claudia Stöcker and Sophie Crommelinck, University of Twente/ITC, Netherlands Why: Presentations by both PhD students about their its4land work What can UAVs do in 10 years? Maybe, they can transport people but to securely drop the passenger on the surface UAVs require a real-time precise [...]

What: Fieldwork in Kajiado, Kenya When: 26-27 September 2018 Who: Sophie Crommelinck, University of Twente/Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Netherlands Purpose: To collect images, information and locations of cadastral boundaries and to get insights into current land mapping procedures and land-related challenges Setup: Together with a PhD candidate from the Technical University of [...]

Mila Koeva and Rohan Bennett as two of the guest editors are glad to invite you to submit papers that adress the following topics: Comparisons of alternate remote sensing techniques for 2D and 3D data capture relevant to land administration and cadastres (including UAV imagery, VHRSI, RADAR, LiDAR, and multi-spectral approaches) Design and testing of [...]

What: its4land – Period 2 – European Commission Review Where: Brussels, Belgium When: 16 October 2018 Who: EC Review Panel: F. Boissière, J. Santos with external reviewers K. Meuleman, D. Sladic and J. Kiema (not present), and the its4land team Why: A one day review corresponding to the second reporting period took place on Tuesday, 16 October 2018 at the European Commission [...]

The second deliverable of its4land’s Govern and Grow work package ‘Review of governance and capacity development models’ aims to get a better interdisciplinary understanding of existing models of governance and capacity development. Based on a literature review and the recommendations from the requirements synthesis done in the Get Needs work package (Deliverable 2.5), we’ve selected [...]

What: Qualitative data collection in Rwanda and Kenya to understand the governance of the current land tenure recording situation and to find out how the its4land tools need to be used in a sustainable way. Where: Musanze and Kigali in Rwanda & Kajiado and Nairobi in Kenya Who:   Rwanda: INES Ruhengeri and Esri Rwanda (Rwanda) [...]

What: Symposium on Feature Extraction for Cadastral Boundaries Where:  University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) When: 25 October 2018 Joined event between ITC and Kadastre International - exchange of experience in automatisation on feature extraction from imagery. Mila Koeva presented its4land and Sophie Crommelinck demonstrated the developed open source its4land tool.

What: Capacity development – image processing workshop for its4land UAV pilots Where: Regional Centre for Mapping of Ressources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya When: 2 and 3 October 2018 Who: Lead: University of Twente, Faculty of ITC (UT/ITC, Netherlands), Participants: Technical University of Kenya (TUK), Institut d’Enseignement Supérieur de Ruhengeri (INES, Rwanda), ESRI Rwanda, Bahir Dar [...]