Africa - Space for Human Security and Crisis Management

The UK Space Agency's International Partnership Programme (IPP) will be delivering a series of regional webinars, aimed at promoting our projects' capabilities and outcomes/impacts across climate change, agriculture, maritime, and disaster resilience.

Time

10:00 - 11:30 BST

Projects involved:

Disaster Resilience

DAMSAT (DAm Monitoring from SATellites) (HR Wallingford)

DAMSAT uses satellite technology to remotely monitor water and tailings dams and other tailings deposit areas.

D-MOSS (Dengue Forecasting Model Satellite-based System) (HR Wallingford)

D-MOSS is a pioneering dengue forecasting system which gives beneficiaries several months advance warning of likely outbreaks of dengue fever. This system uses Earth Observation data to give early warning for dengue fever outbreaks in three South Asian countries.

RIOS (Re-settlement Information and Observation System) (Institute of Environmental Analytics)

RIOS will provide a monitoring service for managing informal settlements in Colombia, aiming to help mitigate against the danger of loss of life arising from natural disasters in settlement areas

ASTUS (Anti-trafficking using Satellite Technology for Uganda’s Sustainability (University of Nottingham)

ASTUS aims to tackle human trafficking and forced labour. It will develop a stakeholder-informed data-driven Earth Observation (EO) approach to support anti-trafficking efforts in Uganda.