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Thanks everyone for these interesting discussions. I would like to introduce you to Dr. Kenneth Mubea from RCMRD , Nairobi.
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<a href="http://www.rcmrd.org/dr-kenneth-mubea" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk482269">http://www.rcmrd.org/dr-kenneth-mubea</a> <br>
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Kenneth leads the Capacity Development at RCMRD and I think it be very good to have RCMRD mentor a student team from Africa for next year’s Europa Challenge.<br>
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Kenneth will be giving a webinar on 29th Nov, that you all are welcome to join. We will make the recording available in GeoForAll as well later<br>
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<a href="http://www.rcmrd.org/rcmrd-serving-geospatial-data-to-the-eastern-and-southern-africa-region" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk245701">http://www.rcmrd.org/rcmrd-serving-geospatial-data-to-the-eastern-and-southern-africa-region</a>
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RCMRD is serving geospatial data to the Eastern and Southern Africa region. SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa developed a geoportal based on an open source Content Management System for GIS (GeoNode –
<a href="http://geonode.org" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk58722">http://geonode.org</a> ). The geoportal is intended to be used as a regional Spatial Data Infrastructure portal for Eastern and Southern Africa, serving all RCMRD member states. It will be linked
to other regional and country GIS data portals to publicize it and enhance its usefulness within the region.<br>
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<a href="http://www.rcmrd.org/rcmrd-serving-geospatial-data-to-the-eastern-and-southern-africa-region" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk23164">http://www.rcmrd.org/rcmrd-serving-geospatial-data-to-the-eastern-and-southern-africa-region</a>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith<br>
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From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <patrick.hogan@nasa.gov><br>
Sent: 25 November 2017 9:10 PM<br>
To: Charlie Schweik; Charlie Martial NGOUNOU<br>
Cc: GeoForAll; Dan Bwanika; Suchith Anand<br>
Subject: RE: [Geo4All] Africa Agriculture, Cartography /Remote Sensing & Optimal Production<br>
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Dan and Charlie(s) Suchith and All,<br>
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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.<br>
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Meanwhile, getting weather and other agricultural support to these communities would seem a worthy enterprise.<br>
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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.<br>
<a href="https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch/AgroSphere/wiki" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk365835">https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch/AgroSphere/wiki</a> <br>
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<a href="https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch/WorldWeather/wiki" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk769724">https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch/WorldWeather/wiki</a> <br>
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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<http://www.GODAN.info>.<br>
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-Patrick<br>
(650) 604-5656 (o)<br>
(650) 269-2788 (c)<br>
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From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Schweik<br>
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2017 12:22 PM<br>
To: Charlie Martial NGOUNOU<br>
Cc: GeoForAll; Dan Bwanika<br>
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Africa Agriculture, Cartography /Remote Sensing & Optimal Production<br>
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Hello everyone,<br>
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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?<br>
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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?<br>
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Charlie<br>
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On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 4:00 AM, Charlie Martial NGOUNOU <cmngounou@gmail.com<mailto:cmngounou@gmail.com>> wrote:<br>
Hi Daniel<br>
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I like what you say here.<br>
Problems you observe in Uganda are similar to what we have in Central Africa.<br>
We need to leverage Geo tools to cartography everything in our countries, because it is very difficult to locate anything here.<br>
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Thank you !<br>
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Best Regards<br>
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Charlie Martial NGOUNOU, Founder<br>
AfroLeadership, Promoting Data Revolution in Africa<br>
Tel. 00237 69999 7093, Yaoundé - Cameroon<br>
Click about Charlie M. NGOUNOU ?<http://www.linkedin.com/in/charliemartialngounou/><br>
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On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Dan Bwanika <bulemezi@gmail.com<mailto:bulemezi@gmail.com>> wrote:<br>
Dear Forum<br>
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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>
would locate the cows in a few minutes instead of walking in an<br>
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>
on soil profiles, vegetation, crops, water sources, animal husbandry<br>
etc.<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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Best<br>
<br>
Daniel Bwanika<br>
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