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: 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: 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: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty Where: Washington D.C., United States When: 19-21 March 2017 Who: Tarek Zein, Rohan Bennett, Jaap Zevenbergen, Joep Crompvoets, Serene Ho Why: Present 2 papers on its4land content; Update and advice sessions with Advisory Board; Deliver an its4land masterclass; and Share and spread the results of the first year of its4land. For a [...]
What: The UT WP4 team flew the area around the monastery Gerleve together with Dirk Ohnsorge - the pilot from HansaLuftbild. The weather was perfect – sunny and no wind. The area is a bit undulated – so a really nice test site to assess the geometric accuracy of the results. The team completed 2 flights with [...]
What: Responsible Robotics - International Workshop Panels and Policy Drafting - http://responsiblerobotics.org/humanitarian-drones-wrapup/ Where: Den Haag, Netherlands When: 7th and 8th March 2016 Who: Claudia Stoecker Why: Presenting lessons from its4land and its use of UAVs in developing contexts to the 'Responsible Robotics' community - and taking part and providing input into the policy formation event - alongside its4land Ethics Advisor 'Dr. [...]
What: The 6th Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) Workshop Where: Technical University in Delft, The Netherlands When: 16-17 March 2017 Who: Mila Koeva, Carline Amsing Why: 2 presentations on its4land content: 'Remote sensing data for boundary extraction' by Mila Koeva, and 'Linking new survey data acquisition methods and maintanance' by Carline Amsing
What: WP3 Kenyan Data Capture Where: Kajiado and Nairobi, Kenya When: 26th February to 10th March Who: Malumbo Chipofya, Jan Sahib, Gordon Wayumba, Robert Wayumba, Peter Odwe, and a whole host of others Why: Dialogue and data capture with local communities to support prototyping of smart sketchmaps for Kenyan context. The main objective of the field visit was [...]
What: WP2 Kenyan Fieldwork Where: Kajiado and Nairobi, Kenya When: 26th February to 10th March Who: Serene Ho, Gordon Wayumba, Robert Wayumba, Peter Odwe, and a whole host of others Why: Fieldwork for needs assessment in Kajiado case locations with local communities - and also stakeholder dialogue with government and NGOs/civil society.
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