What: Meeting with the Rwanda Valorization panel Where: ESRI Rwanda office - Kigali, Rwanda When: 25 January 2018 Who: Kenny Kirotich (G.I.S. Tech), Annie Kairaba and two additional delegates (RISD), Cornelia Schmidt (ESRI Rwanda) and Claudia Stöcker (ITC) Why: The Valorization Panel (VP) forms part of the organizational structure and exploitation and dissemination processes of [...]

What: its4land Advisory Board meeting Where: University of Twente/ITC, Enschede, Netherlands and via Skype When: 7 November, 2017 Who: Advisory Board members: Judy Kariuki (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)), Michael Nagenborg (University of Twente), Matt Delano (Trimble), Frank Pichel (Cadasta), Kees de Zeeuw (Dutch Kadaster), Markus Gerke (TU Braunschweig), Rohan Bennett (Swinburne business school), Grenville [...]

What: its4land presentation at GIZ (Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit - German Agency for International Cooperation) Where: Eschborn, Germany When: 13 December, 2017 Who: Jaap Zevenbergen (University of Twente/ITC) Why: to deliver a key note at the second GIZ LandHub Meeting  

What: an article in The Conversation Where: Kenya When: 26 November 2017 Who: Robert Wayumba, lecturer at the Technical University of Kenya and involved in the its4land project Why:  Robert has written an article entitled: 'Drones are taking to the skies above Africa to map land ownership', outlining the potential of UAVs for mapping property boundaries in Kenya and elsewhere on [...]

What: Fixed Wing Drone Trainings and UK Drone Pilot Flight Assessment Where: Toulouse, France; Chepstow, Wales, UK When: 13 - 17 November, 2017, Trainings in Toulouse; 20 - 21 November, 2017, Flight Assessment in Chepstow, Wales Who: Teddy Segore, Charis UAS, Rwanda, Placide Nkerabigwi, INES-Ruhengeri, Rwanda; Connie Schmidt, Esri Rwanda Ltd. Why:  The first four days [...]

What: Poster presentation 'Towards automated boundary delineation for UAV-based cadastral mapping' Where: The ‘Fachaustausch Geoinformatik’ in Heidelberg When: 23 November 2017 Who: Sophie Crommelinck, University of Twente/ITC Why:  To present the current state of her PhD work with a poster. ‘Fachaustausch Geoinformatik’ means something like ‘subject exchange on geoinformatics’. It is a one day event (for free), where about [...]

What:  new its4land article on UAVs and land rights in Kenya was presented at the  2017 Conference on Land Policy in Africa. Where: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia When: 14-17 November, 2017 Who: Robert Wayumba, University of Kenya and Peter Odwe and Agnes Mwasumbi, Ardhi University What: The article entitled 'Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Strengthening Land Rights for the Youths [...]

What: webinar called ‘e-Agriculture online self-learning course: An introduction to the use of drones in agriculture’ organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and e-Agriculture Where: webinar, hence on the internet! When: 23 October 2017 Who: Sophie Crommelinck and Claudia Stöcker of University of Twente/ITC Why: Sophie and Claudia were asked to give a general presentation on their PhD [...]

What: an its4land meeting in preparation of the Common Exploitation Booster meeting on 7 March 2018 Where: University of Twente/ITC, Enschede, Netherlands When: 16 October 2017 Who: the its4land work package leaders. The meeting was led by Tarek Zein of Hansa Luftbild and Kaspar Kundert from ESRI Rwanda and is part of the activities that are conducted within work package [...]