Autor: Amelia Fernandez
20 abril 2022
InfoSequia es ahora parte del portal TWIGA, una plataforma que integra múltiples servicios geoclimáticos en África
InfoSequia es el Sistema de Detección Temprana y Pronóstico estacional de impactos de Sequía desarrollado por FutureWater para dar soporte al proceso de toma decisiones y gestión integrada del riesgo. InfoSequia combina índices meteorológicos, satelitales, hidrológicos y climáticos, junto con técnicas de modelización y aprendizaje automático. Recientemente InfoSequia se ha integrado de manera efectiva en...
15 abril 2022
Soluciones Basadas en la Naturaleza (NbS) para la seguridad hídrica: FutureWater prepara las fichas técnicas de opciones NbS para TNC
Recently, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has published a How-to Guide to Develop Watershed Investment Programs, accessible here. This important resource was designed to meet the needs of practitioners and investors across a variety of sectors who may wish to improve biodiversity, climate and water security outcomes by employing nature-based solutions. It comprises several components, including...
4 marzo 2022
InfoSequia, finalista en la segunda edición de Dinapsis Open Challenge
Recientemente, FutureWater presentó la solución InfoSequia en el 2º Desafío Dinapsis, un programa de innovación organizado por el nodo regional de Dinapsis en la Región de Murcia. Este segundo reto lanzado por Dinapsis, que es la red de hubs para la transformación digital del grupo Agbar, se centró en la búsqueda de soluciones y aplicaciones innovadoras...
14 febrero 2022
Video: Usuarios y beneficiarios comparten sus experiencias en el uso de innovaciones geoespaciales en escuelas de campo de Egipto
The project ‘A Practical Farmers Toolkit – Geodata for climate smart agriculture in Egypt’ has successfully finished last month. An exciting video was made, which gives a short overview of this agricultural project. An interactive training programme started in April 2021 with online training, field schools, and group projects. The ‘toolkit’ provided in this project...
22 diciembre 2021
Training to Enhance Agricultural Production in Iraq Completed Succesfully
The Nuffic TMT training on ‘Climate smart irrigation strategies to improve salinity control and enhance agricultural production in Iraq’, provided by FutureWater and Wageningen University, in collaboration with Basra University has been completed successfully. The training, using the FutureWater Moodle School, was aimed at building capacity of participants in accessing and using innovative public-domain data,...
10 marzo 2021
Results from Pilot Project on ‘Cadastre Mapping with Flying Sensor Imagery in Mozambique’ Now Published
FutureWater conducted a very interesting and innovative pilot project for TerraFirma (Mozambique) on using flying sensor imagery for cadastre mapping. Flying sensor imagery was obtained through various flights in Quelimane, Mozambique for an area with small-scale agriculture. Field boundaries were determined with the flying sensor imagery using various classification and segmentation algorithms, namely R packages...
15 enero 2021
FAO and FutureWater Putting Emphasis on Reuse of Water in Irrigation
Reuse of water in irrigation systems has been ignored to a great extent in developing and rehabilitating irrigation projects. Focus of many projects is on water withdrawals rather than on water consumption. Although this distinction between withdrawals and consumption might seem somewhat academic, it is important in a better understanding of irrigation systems. Moreover, it...
