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Resilience Academy: Classifying Sentinel 2 images in SNAP
Remote sensing, Training12 Feb 2024

Resilience Academy: Multispectral satellite images in environmental remote sensing

Key concepts of environmental remote sensing and practical understanding of the importance of Earth observation in the identification, mapping, monitoring, analysis and modelling of our planet. After the completion of the tasks, you are able to argue for the significance of remote sensing in Earth observation, and you have gained practical skills in searching, exploring […]

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Community Urban Risk Mapping
Community mapping12 Feb 2024

Community Urban Risk Mapping

On the basis of the practical lessons learned from Dar Ramani Huria this online course has been established. It includes the main concepts covered by Ramani Huria, structured as a self-learning course.

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Resilience Academy: Spatial analysis of PM data
Community mapping, Training12 Feb 2024

Resilience Academy: Spatial analysis of PM data

Learn the principles of the analysis of geospatial data collected via participatory mapping.

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Resilience Academy: Spatial analysis of PM data
Community mapping, Training12 Feb 2024

Resilience Academy: Participatory mapping process

You will learn the elements crucial for planning a participatory data collection campaign.

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Resilience Academy: Spatial analysis of PM data
Community mapping, Training12 Feb 2024

Resilience Academy: Introduction to participatory mapping

You will learn the concepts and different participatory mapping tools and methods, which are applicable to local-level community participation, and which can facilitate land use planning processes. After completing, you are familiar with the key terms and concepts of PGIS/PPGIS and you have an overall idea of different tools available to collect geospatial community data.

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Resilience Academy: Urban climatology
Climate risk management, Training12 Feb 2024

Resilience Academy: Urban climatology

Principles of regional and urban climates, the mechanics of UHI, and know how to observe urban weather phenomena. You will learn modelling a continuous urban temperature with the aid of remotely sensed data and in-situ observations.

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Resilience Academy: Urban climatology
Climate risk management, Training12 Feb 2024

Resilience Academy: Humans as drivers of climate change

Principles of anthropogenic climate forcing, the current drivers and processes of climate warming and its regional variation, plus the concepts of planetary boundaries, tipping elements and doughnut economy. Furthermore, you will learn how the various anthropogenic decisions and actions materialise as forcing factors contributing to climate change.

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Resilience Academy: Urban climatology
Climate risk management, Training12 Feb 2024

Resilience Academy: Climate change

Principles of climate change, the major events in climate history and the key natural factors behind climatic variations.

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Resilience Academy: Urban climatology
Climate risk management, Training12 Feb 2024

Resilience Academy: Climate system

Basics of the climate system and its key processes at the planetary level and in East-Africa. You will also understand the principles of climate classification and its representations.

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DIDAIhub: Principles of Open Data
Geospatial data management, Training12 Feb 2024

DIDAIhub: Principles of Open Data

Learn to define the concept of open data, and how to discover and use it as a research resource. Learn about about terms and conditions of accessing and using open data,as well as practical measures which help to decide whether to share data openly or not, and what part of it could be shared openly. […]

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DIDAIhub: Processing large raster images in GDAL
Geospatial data management, Training12 Feb 2024

DIDAIhub: Geometries of geospatial data and basic statistics

Understand the basics of geometric and statistical properties and nature of geospatial data. Learn the skills to operate common analysis of geometric properties and basic statistics in QGIS. Gain deeper understanding on the nature and possibilities & limitation of geospatial data.

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DIDAIhub: Story mapping
Geovisualisation, Training12 Feb 2024

DIDAIhub: Story mapping

You can build a story map rich with geomedia that reflects relevant aspects of an area (history, natural/cultural processes, sustainability issues, plans etc.).

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