Ask any Nairobi commuter what “smart city” means to them and you probably won’t hear the words “digital twin” or “IoT sensor”. You’ll hear about the forty minutes lost on Thika Road every morning, the matatu that suddenly changes route without warning, or the bus stop that floods every time it…
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Multi-GNSS and CORS networks are transforming Africa's geospatial landscape by delivering centimetre-level positioning for surveying, mapping, agriculture, infrastructure and land administration.
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Kenya's space ecosystem is no longer emerging,it's evolving. Drawing on insights from RIIS Engagement Manager Yankho Likaku.
A gradient boosting model using free elevation, CORINE and OpenStreetMap data maps old-growth habitat across small private woodlands in Lower Saxony.
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HARSAC says its satellite fire counts are accurate, but a ground visit in Karnal and Kaithal found stubble burning that the figures appeared to miss.
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Trimble's WorksManager Drone processes DJI and Wingtra flight data in the cloud and overlays it with designs and machine data, due January 2027.
Nov 6, 2026A Mamba-based model using Sentinel-2 and crop growth parameters estimates seed maize yields in Gansu with an R2 of 0.78, ahead of Transformer, LSTM and XGBoost.
Nov 6, 2026
Geovation has added NERC as a partner and now backs six extra land use startups per cohort, with Satellite Applications Catapult mentoring on pilots and procurement.
Nov 6, 2026
