[Geo4All] R: Africa Agriculture, Cartography /Remote Sensing & Optimal Production

Sun Nov 26 00:48:37 PST 2017

Thanks Maria,
I would suggest to take a look at Open Monitoring System Working group of
the Open Geoscience Committee (
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Monitoring_Systems_Working_Group), the
project 4ONSE (http://www.4onse.ch) and the software istSOS (
http://www.istsos.org) to see what we're doing with open hardware and open
source...

Best
Maxi

Il 26 nov 2017 09:29, "Maria Antonia Brovelli" <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
ha scritto:

> Massimiliano has a long experience with IoT. They have been developing
> ISTSOS and working on many projects related to sensors.
> Best
> Maria
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> Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung
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> -------- Messaggio originale --------
> Da: Charlie Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>
> Data: 25/11/17 23:02 (GMT+01:00)
> A: "Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)" <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov>
> Cc: GeoForAll <GeoForAll at lists.osgeo.org>, Dan Bwanika <bulemezi at gmail.com>
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> Oggetto: Re: [Geo4All] Africa Agriculture, Cartography /Remote Sensing &
> Optimal Production
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> Probably right, Patrick.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> But your suggestion on weather information is probably a very good first
> step and great to see your GitHub project work, Patrick!
>
> Charlie
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> On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <
> patrick.hogan at nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>> Meant to include Suchith!
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>> *From:* GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf
>> Of *Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
>> *Sent:* Saturday, November 25, 2017 1:11 PM
>> *To:* Charlie Schweik; Charlie Martial NGOUNOU
>> *Cc:* GeoForAll; Dan Bwanika
>> *Subject:* Re: [Geo4All] Africa Agriculture, Cartography /Remote Sensing
>> & Optimal Production
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>> Dan and Charlie(s) Suchith and All,
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>> The hardware in for tracking cows, is not a cheap passive implant but a
>> powered collar affair, and given the cost, seems more a proposal for the
>> Gates Foundation.
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>> Meanwhile, getting weather and other agricultural support to these
>> communities would seem a worthy enterprise.
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>> The thing we are weakest on is assuring each farmer has the best weather
>> information, short range and medium range (www.ecmwf.int), and highly
>> localized.
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>> https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch/AgroSphere/wiki
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>> https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch/WorldWeather/wiki
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>> 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
>> www.GODAN.info.
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>>
>> -Patrick
>>
>> (650) 604-5656 (o)
>>
>> (650) 269-2788 (c)
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] *On Behalf Of *Charlie Schweik
>> *Sent:* Saturday, November 25, 2017 12:22 PM
>> *To:* Charlie Martial NGOUNOU
>> *Cc:* GeoForAll; Dan Bwanika
>> *Subject:* Re: [Geo4All] Africa Agriculture, Cartography /Remote Sensing
>> & Optimal Production
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello everyone,
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>> So this seems like a problem area where the GeoForAll lab network could
>> establish a cross-university team of students to develop a low-cost open
>> source hardware/mapping application, perhaps under a coordinated
>> independent study?
>>
>>
>>
>> Are there any labs interested in trying to do this? I *might (no promises
>> yet!)* be able to find a student willing to try on my campus at the
>> University of Massachusetts, Amherst, to try and collaborate with Daniel
>> over the Internet between January-May. Anyone else?
>>
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>>
>> Charlie
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>> On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 4:00 AM, Charlie Martial NGOUNOU <
>> cmngounou at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Daniel
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>> I like what you say here.
>>
>> Problems you observe in Uganda are similar to what we have in Central
>> Africa.
>>
>> We need to leverage Geo tools to cartography everything in our countries,
>> because it is very difficult to locate anything here.
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>> Thank you !
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>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>> *Charlie Martial NGOUNOU, Founder*
>>
>> *AfroLeadership, Promoting Data Revolution in Africa*
>>
>> *Tel. 00237 69999 7093, Yaoundé - Cameroon*
>>
>> *Click about Charlie M. NGOUNOU ?
>> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/charliemartialngounou/>*
>>
>>
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>> On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Dan Bwanika <bulemezi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Forum
>>
>> Recently, I was in the northern central part of Uganda where cattle
>> keepers have farms in the region of 300 -600 acres. It took me three
>> hours to locate where the cows had grazed that day.
>>
>> Then I thought to myself, maybe if each cattle had a GPS/GSM tag, I
>> would locate the cows in a few minutes instead of walking in an
>> endless bush. Even then do these people need such huge land for cattle
>> keeping if they had good aerial data on vegetation, water etc.,?
>>
>> Uganda key socioeconomic activity is still agriculture and it will
>> remain the same for some time to come. Uganda if you look closely at
>> the map is endowed with huge water resources.
>>
>> For the above reason, this country will need huge cartographical data
>> on soil profiles, vegetation, crops, water sources, animal husbandry
>> etc.
>>
>> That is how technology is converging on Africa in a massive way.
>>
>> Can we work together on this – get in touch.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Daniel Bwanika
>>
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>> Charlie Schweik
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