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Our Online Course Reached the 1,000+ participants Milestone
The “Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) in Fragile Contexts” online course, developed under the scope of this project, has now reached more than 1,000 participants on the UNITAR platform alone.
21 May 2021
Workshop Delivered during the 2021 Virtual Practitioners Workshop on Conflict Early Warning/Early Action
On 18 May 2021 UNOSAT delivered a capacity building session as part of the 2021 Virtual Practitioners Workshop on Conflict Early Warning/Early Action hosted by the Center on International Cooperation, a non-profit research center housed at New York Uni
21 May 2021Road network vulnerability in Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo is known for its fertile forests which cover over 68% of the country and heavy rainfall that often exceed 150mm per month.
12 May 2021Monitoring reconstruction efforts in Mosul, IRAQ
After meeting at Washington DC headquarters, the World Bank team expressed interest for a EO4SD FCS demonstration in Mosul in support to the Emergency Operation for Development in Iraq.
27 April 2021
Building damage assessment and evolution in the context of armed conflict in English-speaking Cameroon
In spring 2020, a World Bank Group team working on an economic assessment of the English-speaking part of Cameroon submitted a request to the EO4SD FCS consortium to help them assess over time the evolutions of structural assets.
19 April 2021Successful completion of the Mainstreaming Progress Review
The EO4SD-FCS consortium held the Mainstreaming Progress Review on the 23rd March 2021 in the video conference format, due to the pandemic restrictions.
31 March 2021
Monitoring illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities in the Kiribati Exclusive Economic Zone
In late 2019, the ADB turned to the EO4SD-FCS consortium for support to see what additional monitoring could be performed to reduce IUU activities in the Kiribati EEZ.
17 March 2021
Novel data mining technique applied to Sentinel-2 time series to identify desert locust impacted agricultural fields in Somalia
The EO4SD – Fragility Conflict, and Security consortium evaluated an additional advanced analytical technique and data sets to assess locust impacts in Somalia
11 March 2021