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Gaining valuable insight in Ethiopian information needs
At the end of June, Katholic University Leuven, in collaboration with local partner, the Institute of Land Administration at Bahir Dar University, conducted its data collection for the ‘Get Needs’ work package in Ethiopia. The activities comprised two components – site visits and interviews with local communities in rural and peri-urban kebeles (villages), and a [...]
Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research
What: Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research – Close Range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain. Where: Obergurgl, Austria When: 16 - 22 July, 2017 Who: Sophie Crommelinck, University of Twente, Netherlands Why: International summer school on innovative practical and methodological approaches to characterize complex terrain and objects using close-, near range and remote sensing techniques. The objective is [...]
Towards Automated Cadastral Boundary Delineation from UAV data
What: Towards Automated Cadastral Boundary Delineation from UAV data - a new its4land report. Where: directly download the report or visit the 'Automate It' section of the its4land website. When: July 2017 Who: Sophie Crommelinck, Michael Ying Yang, Mila Koeva, Markus Gerke, Rohan Bennett, and George Vosselman. Why: Sophie Crommelinck, lead of work package 5, 'Automate It', [...]
UAVs for Land Rights – A Guide to Regulatory Practice
What: Deliverable 4.1 of work package 4, 'Fly and Create', is ready: a Guide to Regulatory Practice Where: Here When: 29 June 2017 Who: Claudia Stöcker, Rohan Bennett, Francesco Nex, Markus Gerke, Connie Schmidt, Tarek Zein Why: In order to efficiently design, test and evaluate UAV-based workflows for land tenure data acquisition activities, internal and external elements that determine [...]
LANDac conference with its4land presentations
What: LANDac conference - Land Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Development Where: Utrecht, Netherlands When: 29 - 30 June, 2017 Who: Sophie Crommelinck and Mila Koeva, University of Twente, Netherlands Why: Scientific conference of land-related researches and activists with a focus on land governance for equitable and sustainable development. Mila gave a presentation on its4land and Sophie presented a poster on current state of [...]
FOSS4GNL – its4land reports
What: FOSS4GNL Where: Groningen, Netherlands When: 28 June, 2017 Who: Sophie Crommelinck, University of Twente, Netherlands Why: Get-together of Dutch developers, users, and managers of open-access geographic information systems (GIS) such as QGIS. The objective was to network with people working on QGIS related (technical) issues and possibly with people working on (similar) plugin development as the one we are currently [...]
Getting up-to-date on drones regulations and legislation at Drones East Africa Conference 2017
What: Drones East Africa Conference 2017 Where: Nairobi, Kenya When: 20 - 21 June, 2017 Who: Connie Schmidt, Esri, Rwanda Why: Connie Schmidt of Esri, Rwanda, partner in the its4land project, attended the conference to get up-to-date on the status and development of drone regulations and legislation in East Africa. There were presentations on drones safety and security [...]
Video footage of maiden flight DT-18 UAV
What: Video footage of the first data capture with the DT-18 by the University of Twente team Where: Aamsveen, Germany When: January 20 2017 Who: Claudia Stocker and Watse Siderius (UT) Why: Back in January, we spent a news item on the first test flight we conducted with the UAV we are using in its4land, the DT (Delair Tech)-18. [...]
ISPRS Workshop: sharing experiences on automated feature extraction from high resolution imagery
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 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. Sophie had useful discussions with [...]
Report back from IST-Africa 2017 Conference
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 [...]
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