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<div>Massimiliano has a long experience with IoT. They have been developing ISTSOS and working on many projects related to sensors. </div>
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Da: Charlie Schweik <cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu> <br>
Data: 25/11/17 23:02 (GMT+01:00) <br>
A: "Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)" <patrick.hogan@nasa.gov> <br>
Cc: GeoForAll <GeoForAll@lists.osgeo.org>, Dan Bwanika <bulemezi@gmail.com> <br>
Oggetto: Re: [Geo4All] Africa Agriculture, Cartography /Remote Sensing & Optimal Production
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<div>Although I have two "existence proof" projects where students are building relatively low-cost open source hardware for air pollution and water pollution sensing. In the former, the students have a device that is under $100 and collects better data than
a $1000 proprietary device in a controlled environment. In the latter, there is a device invented by some engineering students in Bogota Colombia who are now sharing their device build instructions and students at UMass are implementing their device and testing
it. These still are cost prohibitive -- as you are suggesting.
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<div>My only point is as we move toward the Internet of Things and lower and lower cost sensors and things like Ardunios there is the prospect of GeoForAll labs to begin to work on geospatially-explicit environmental sensor collaborations in the same way we
might be doing in software or educational products. If we, as a community, want to move toward smart cities with environmental sensors collecting data and mapping that data, we need to find applications within our network to try and start building collaborations.</div>
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<div>But your suggestion on weather information is probably a very good first step and great to see your GitHub project work, Patrick!</div>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, November 25, 2017 1:11 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Charlie Schweik; Charlie Martial NGOUNOU<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d">The hardware in for tracking cows, is not a cheap passive implant but a powered collar affair, and given the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d">Meanwhile, getting weather and other agricultural support to these communities would seem a worthy enterprise.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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range (<a href="http://www.ecmwf.int" target="_blank">www.ecmwf.int</a>), and highly localized.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d">Ideally this would guidance on respective crops given the soil type and expected weather pattern. The two top
winners of the Europa Challenge this past year, both NASA Intern teams, have basic apps that are relevant to serving the local farmer. I am glad to mentor any student or teams that might wish to do more serving these priorities, the same priorities of
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Charlie Schweik<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, November 25, 2017 12:22 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Charlie Martial NGOUNOU<br>
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Amherst, to try and collaborate with Daniel over the Internet between January-May. Anyone else? <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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Recently, I was in the northern central part of Uganda where cattle<br>
keepers have farms in the region of 300 -600 acres. It took me three<br>
hours to locate where the cows had grazed that day.<br>
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Then I thought to myself, maybe if each cattle had a GPS/GSM tag, I<br>
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endless bush. Even then do these people need such huge land for cattle<br>
keeping if they had good aerial data on vegetation, water etc.,?<br>
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Uganda key socioeconomic activity is still agriculture and it will<br>
remain the same for some time to come. Uganda if you look closely at<br>
the map is endowed with huge water resources.<br>
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For the above reason, this country will need huge cartographical data<br>
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That is how technology is converging on Africa in a massive way.<br>
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Can we work together on this – get in touch.<br>
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