pallavi1505/DEA

Digital Earth Africa # DEA Digital Earth Africa Source: Digital Earth Africa Landsa… “Digital Earth Africa transforms how earth observations can be applied to address some of the current pressing challenges coming in the path of Developing Africa.” Africa is a vast continent with a diverse environment, including various types of biodiversity and homes with one of the fastest growing populations in the world. The population explosion is an additional strain on the natural resources in Africa, is also putting the environment under constant threat from climate change, environment degradation, natural calamities causing severe issues like food security and access to safe water- not only to the humans but also to the flora and fauna. As a result, a new technological spirit is taking resolving these issues into hands but is hampered by the lack of actionable data. There are many types of data needed which are almost decision ready, for example rate of desertification, illegal mining activities locations, rate of poaching, total revenue from over agriculture, deforestation hotspots. “Digital Earth Africa” will address this gap between innovative technologies and needed for actionable, structure, veritable data by using analysis ready data produced by Satellites by leveraging The Landsat series of Earth Observation satellites, jointly led by USGS and NASA, which have been continuously acquiring images of the Earth’s land surface since 1972. Using this data, decision makers will be able to identify the common trends and patterns occurring in the given issue and thus identify the magnitude of the issue in the suture, thus combining Descriptive, Prescriptive, Predictive Data Analytics with DE Africa. Like we had earlier seen a use case with “Big Basket using AWS” getting insights about which products to keep in the shelf for a particular time, which stock to increase/ decrease, what marketing strategy to use - on parallel lines, DE will benefit the businesses at ground level …