African Research and Education Day explored new horizons in Finland-Africa partnerships
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2024
UTU Master’s students visiting Sitowise
A group of master’s students and a few members of staff from the University of Turku Geography department paid a
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Webinar series 23.5.2024 – Geospatial Data Quality
Time: 23.5.2024 @9-10am (EEST) Topic: Geospatial Data Quality Meeting recording: Added soon!
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UDSM: Coming up with an umbrella challenge
The motivation behind the decision for the two umbrella challenges for two MCL campaigns conducted in 2022 and 2023 –
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SUA: Geospatial empowerment with MCL training
At Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), students prepared for the Multi-Competence Learning (MCL) Challenge with a week of intensive training
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Resilience Academy: Classifying Sentinel 2 images in SNAP
Classify multispectral satellite images available in different platforms and download and manage the data sets using different open-source tools. You
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Resilience Academy: Basic image processing methods with SNAP
Key steps of managing the data using the Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP) this includes installation of SNAP, use of different
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Resilience Academy: Multispectral satellite images in environmental remote sensing
Key concepts of environmental remote sensing and practical understanding of the importance of Earth observation in the identification, mapping, monitoring,
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Community Urban Risk Mapping
On the basis of the practical lessons learned from Dar Ramani Huria this online course has been established. It includes
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Resilience Academy: Spatial analysis of PM data
Learn the principles of the analysis of geospatial data collected via participatory mapping.
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Resilience Academy: Participatory mapping process
You will learn the elements crucial for planning a participatory data collection campaign.
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Resilience Academy: Introduction to participatory mapping
You will learn the concepts and different participatory mapping tools and methods, which are applicable to local-level community participation, and
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Resilience Academy: Urban climatology
Principles of regional and urban climates, the mechanics of UHI, and know how to observe urban weather phenomena. You will
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Resilience Academy: Humans as drivers of climate change
Principles of anthropogenic climate forcing, the current drivers and processes of climate warming and its regional variation, plus the concepts
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Resilience Academy: Climate change
Principles of climate change, the major events in climate history and the key natural factors behind climatic variations.
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Resilience Academy: Climate system
Basics of the climate system and its key processes at the planetary level and in East-Africa. You will also understand
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DIDAIhub: Principles of Open Data
Learn to define the concept of open data, and how to discover and use it as a research resource. Learn
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DIDAIhub: Location data collection using mobile devices
This learning module introduces different location data collection methods using smartphone GPS. This is especially interesting and important since they
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DIDAIhub: Geometries of geospatial data and basic statistics
Understand the basics of geometric and statistical properties and nature of geospatial data. Learn the skills to operate common analysis
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DIDAIhub: Story mapping
You can build a story map rich with geomedia that reflects relevant aspects of an area (history, natural/cultural processes, sustainability
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DIDAIhub: Visualization of geospatial data and map making
Create and use maps and visualize geospatial data for dissemination of your work. You are able to evaluate the quality
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DIDAIhub: Working with interactive webmaps
With this learning module, you are able to critically think about the designing and planning of interactive web maps. You
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Resilience Academy: Dynamic flood modelling in 2 dimensions
Learn how to establish a detailed 2-dimensional flood schematisation of a river section in Dar es Salaam within a Graphical
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Resilience Academy: From flood hazard to flood impact
Learn practical skills to turn a hazard map in a flood impact map within the already known QGIS interface. Consolidate
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Resilience Academy: Flood zone mapping
Learn hands-on how a digital terrain model and a vector dataset of main streams can be used to make flood
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