[Geo4All] Geo Data, Urbanisation, Climate Changes and Tropical Africa

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Daniel and the Africa Contingent,

Our heart goes out to so much of humanity having to deal with a diminishing world due to over consumption by others.

In light of this sadness, if I may, still some good news! 
First of all, the GeoForAll Lab www.AWorldBridge.com is successfully delivering a UN/FAO product specifically to serve the urgent needs of North Africa, in addressing the recent infestation of the Fall Armyworm (moth/ caterpillar), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_armyworm. Ron Fortunato is getting kudos from FAO for the monitoring system his New York Fei Tian University students built for FAO. I will let Ron share the details if anyone is interested. 

This is in addition to the Locust Intervention tracking system AWorldBridge is also building for FAO for North Africa. And of course there is also the OpenCitySmart work his GeoForAll labs are continuing to work on. 

The other good news is that there has just been a new release of ESA-NASA WebWorldWind! v0.9.0 (we are conservative!).
The European Space Agency (ESA) has standardized on this platform and is working with NASA to accelerate its development. 
https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WebWorldWind/releases/tag/v0.9.0

Forum post: 
https://forum.worldwindcentral.com/forum/web-world-wind/web-world-wind-help/158071-web-worldwind-v0-9-0-now-available

WebWorldWind is already the backbone for the ESA Sentinel apps (pretty cool stuff):
Sentinel App for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/esa-sentinel/id1036738151
Sentinel App for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=esa.sentinel

Given the UN OpenGIS group has recently selected WebWorldWind for their web apps, this new version will give them a powerful start.
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

-Patrick.Hogan at nasa.gov
(650) 269-2788 (c)

-----Original Message-----
From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dan Bwanika
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 6:44 AM
To: GeoForAll
Cc: BISA-IPEG; ACUMEN; Urban Geography Discussion and Announcement Forum
Subject: [Geo4All] Geo Data, Urbanisation, Climate Changes and Tropical Africa

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Africa in its efforts to develop, what were once Dense Tropical forests are now turning into human settlements. This is where geo data science comes in handy.

Most African countries do not have animal, insect and plant genetic data banks or museums.

It’s a double tragedy now that climate change too is impacting this region negatively. The dense Tropical forests have helped Africans to survive in many different ways with medicinal plants and different types of forests foods that unfortunately are undocumented.

This knowledge is crucial for sustainable development and can be lost if Geo Data Science does not establish its footprint here. Typical forest people with base knowledge is also rapidly disappearing.

Best Wishes
Daniel Bwanika.
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Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero

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