Autor: Martijn
28 diciembre 2018
TWIGA Blog: Successful drone training at KNUST in Kumasi, Ghana
Eleven motivated participants. A Flying Sensor. A challenging task to perform. Perfect facilities (Thank you Mr Isaac Duodu from Kumasi Business Incubator!). The right assistance (Mr Joel Budu from Farmerline!). That’s what it takes to perform a week’s training and finish it successfully. Coming from different professional backgrounds most of the trainees did not know...
11 diciembre 2018
Socio-economic development is the key driver for the future South Asian water gap
The current United Nations Climate Change Conference COP24 held in Katowice, Poland once more demonstrates the world’s climate change concerns. In the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra river basins, a global climate change hotspot and home for about 900 million people, these concerns are pressing, since the river systems provide water resources for the important agricultural,...
7 diciembre 2018
Satellite technology and drone images to reduce groundwater use in Iran
The SMART-WADI project (SMART Water Decisions for Iran), carried out by a consortium of FutureWater, IHE-Delft, and local partner EWERI, focuses on farmers who irrigate their crops with groundwater. The aim is to provide up-to-date information and advice on water productivity, irrigation and farm management. The project combines the latest satellite technology for the quantification...
30 noviembre 2018
FutureWater to launch RainMyanmar at the 2018 Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy
Although rainfall stations continue to be an irreplaceable source of data, satellite-derived products provide valuable additional information on spatial patterns and remote sites where no stations are present. Thanks to Google Earth Engine, these data products are now publicly available and can improve water management policies, practice and research worldwide. RainMyanmar is an app targeted...
26 noviembre 2018
Even 1.5 degrees is too much for South Asia
The river basins of the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra in South Asia are seen as climate change hotspots. These river basins, which are largely fed by mountain water are home to a population around 900 million people, which is likely to increase to al 1 billion halfway the 21st century. Climate change is expected to...
29 octubre 2018
Evento de innovación y reunión de coordinación del proyecto BRIGAID en Cartagena (España)
Durante los días 17, 18 y 19 de octubre tuvieron lugar en Cartagena varias actividades co-organizadas por FutureWater e Icatalist en el marco de la reunión de coordinación del proyecto BRIGAID. Durante el primer día, una selección de innovadores, usuarios y agentes de financiación de la región y europeos se congregaron alrededor de un taller...
17 septiembre 2018
Press release: Traditional Japanese cuisine is under threat from global water problems
Water scarcity and extreme weather events – both now and under climate change – outside Japan’s borders are expected to pose an increasing risk to Japan’s agri-food importers and to the wider consumer market. In Japan, many traditional culinary ingredients such as rice, edamame, miso and tofu (soybean products) – as well as increasingly popular...
9 agosto 2018
Stockholm World Water Week 2018: FutureWater will present ThirdEye’s Water Productivity service
FutureWater will participate in the African Spatial Delight side event of the Stockholm World Water Week 2018, convened by VIA Water, AfriAlliance and the G4AW programme of the Dutch government. The ThirdEye service of FutureWater and HiView, currently applied in Mozambique, Kenya and Ghana, is one of the innovations that will be presented and demonstrated...
9 julio 2018
FutureWater participa en la impartición del Curso en Teledetección y Servicios Agrarios en Angola
El Gobierno de Angola está desarrollando una política para diversificar la economía del país, fuertemente dependiente de los ingresos del sector petrolero. La agricultura se considera uno de los sectores prioritarios para ser desarrollado. Un clima favorable y una relativamente elevada disponibilidad de recursos hídricos y suelos fértiles, pueden propiciar que Angola se convierta en...
5 julio 2018
Mekong State Of the Basin Report 2018: FutureWater prepares Upper Mekong Chapters
The Mekong State Of the Basin Report (SOBR) is published by the Mekong River Commission (MRC) every five years, in advance of the cyclic updating of the Basin Development Strategy. The SOBR plays a key role in improving monitoring and communication of conditions in the Mekong Basin, and is MRC’s flagship knowledge and impact monitoring...
