DEA: Agriculture and Food security (part 2)
- 1. Digital Earth Africa
Description
On 10th April 2025, the second part of the webinar "Digital Earth Africa: Agriculture and Food Security" was moderated by Felipe Carlos, with Kenneth Mubea presenting key topics. The session was divided into two parts: an introduction to GEO Knowledge Hub and how to access materials from the first webinar and Digital Earth Africa applications and tools.
Digital Earth Africa: Applications and Tools
Kenneth Mubea, Capacity Development Lead at Digital Earth Africa, continued the session by presenting valuable applications of Digital Earth Africa for agriculture and food security. He demonstrated how machine learning and satellite data could be used to monitor crop conditions, identify irrigated cropland, and track vegetation anomalies.
Key Topics Covered by Kenneth Mubea, Capacity Development Lead at Digital Earth Africa:
- Scalable Supervised Machine Learning in Monitoring Crop Conditions
- Identifying Active Irrigated Cropping
- Monthly Vegetation Condition Anomalies
- NDVI Animation with Rainfall
- True Colour Animations with Rainfall
- Distribution of Soil Moisture in an Irrigation Scheme
- Practical Use of Platform Features: DE Africa Sandbox, Maps, and Learning Platform
- Available Support: DE Africa Helpdesk and online learning courses