☀️ Are slums the heat islands of cities?

🗞️EL PAÍS covered our ongoing research project #ONEKANA funded by Belspo. Some results will be published 🔜!

elpais.com/planeta-futuro…

Great team together with Monika Kuffer, #CommunityMapper., Stefanos Georganos, ADELEKE, Shantytown Empowerment Foundation

🚀 Call for PhD Position Applications: African Atlas of Urban Informality

🌍 To work in Spain, with me, Monika Kuffer, Priam Pillai, 300.000 Km/s.

⏳ Deadline: 8/4/24

🌿 This role is at the heart of solving urban SDG challenges for the most vulnerable communities.

📣 Happy to announce our latest nature paper:
“AI perceives like a local: predicting citizen deprivation perception using satellite imagery”

🤲🏻 Access it here:
nature.com/articles/s4294…

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Great to see this published. The diversity of deprivation from a community perspective! rdcu.be/dCVud
Congratulations Ángela Abascal ONEKANA/partimap/slumap Belgian Earth Observation
IDEAMAPS Network IDEAtlas Faculty ITC | University of Twente EO4ALL EO4SDG Initiative

SHEF collaborated with ACADEMIA/RESEARCHERS Ángela Abascal Monika Kuffer Stefanos Georganos, and Peter Elias for the ONEKANA project, studying thermal variation across different times of day, seasons, &locations within slum/informal settlement communities of Nigeria Federation in Lagos—

Big thanks to #CommunityMapper. and the Team of #CommunityMapper for our first introduction session of #Space4All discussing on localized #Flood #Models relevant for communities in #Africa . @Data4HumanRights IDEAtlas

I am looking for a doctoral student in the topic of deprived urban area modeling and mapping using #earthobservation and #geospatial data. If you are interested or know someone who might be, please share the ad with them!

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IDEAtlas working with #RENABAP on mapping informal settlements in #Argentina #BuenosAires . Article published by EL PAÍS España about our #ESA -funded project at Faculty ITC | University of Twente.
Info: ideatlas.eu

University of Twente (inactive) IDEAMAPS Network ITC Alumni (inactive) U-Today EO4ALL EO4SDG Initiative #EO4All

Last week the #STEREOprogramme managers, partners of the project and experts of the steering committee met in Faculty ITC | University of Twente (NL) for the first steering committee meeting of the #ONEKANA project.

➡️learn all about this fascinating project: eo.belspo.be/en/stereo-in-a…

🚀 Excited to hear Monika Kuffer share her valuable insights and lessons learned from her involvement in the IDEAtlas project, funded by European Space Agency ESA Earth Observation
#EO4All Faculty ITC | University of Twente ITC Alumni (inactive) ITC Library

We are looking for a PhD candidate to work on urban densification and the impacts on green and blue infrastructure.

The work entails automated interpretation of remote sensing imagery and will focus on cities in the Global South.

Dealine: 1 October

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Evictions are a massive #HumanRights violation! A community in Lagos we are working with has been forcefully evicted last weekend. @Data4HumanRights IDEAtlas #CommunityMapper. Faculty ITC | University of Twente ITC Alumni (inactive) #SPACE4ALL

The Swedish government has halted all funding for #development research through the Swedish Research Council Vetenskapsrådet over night. The current review process has been cancelled, applicants have been informed that their proposals are rejected. #uforsk 🧵

Happy to share a new report on Monitoring slums and informal settlements in Europe - focusing on the potential of EO data for #SDGs publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/han…

Faculty ITC | University of Twente ITC Library #EO4All EO4ALL IDEAtlas IDEAMAPS Network EO4SDG Initiative

IDEAtlas Living Labs starting today in #Medellin and #BuenosAires understanding user requirements for #DeprivedArea / #InformalSettlment Mapping. ESA Earth Observation Faculty ITC | University of Twente IDEAMAPS Network ONEKANA/partimap/slumap EO4ALL EO4SDG Initiative

DEVASTATION OF #SUDAN CITIES REVEALED IN SATELLITE IMAGES from @Planet documented by #IDeAMapSudan team: Sudan Urban Development Think-Tank (SUDTT) Université libre de Bruxelles Faculty ITC | University of Twente funding Nuffic Global Development

IDEAMAPS Network IDEAtlas EO4ALL #EO4all EO4SDG Initiative ONEKANA/partimap/slumap JEI

More images: idea-maps.net/clashes/

Public lecture and ITC Alumni (inactive) gathering in #Khartoum #Sudan funded by Nuffic Global Development - now follow online fb.watch/iT9jcHFqZs/?mi… Just presented #IdeaMapSudan and linked works IDEAMAPS Network @PSlumap call for #OpenData

Join the Public Lecture and ITC Alumni (inactive) gathering in #Khartoum #Sudan .
From Data to Liveable Cities.
More information: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
#IDeaMapSudan Sudan Urban Development Think-Tank (SUDTT) Faculty ITC | University of Twente IDEAMAPS Network APHRC

Join #IDeaMapSudan hybrid symposium 20-23 Feb in Khartoum, Sudan - organized by Faculty ITC | University of Twente Sudan Urban Development Think-Tank (SUDTT) @ULB Université libre de Bruxelles APHRC
👉 register idea-maps.net/workshops/symp…
Data on poverty - deprivation models ( #slum ) of cities Nuffic Global Development IDEAMAPS Network @PSlumap EO4ALL EO4SDG Initiative #EO4all

George Monbiot We spend so much time and money demonising those getting benefits, but turn a blind eye to the tax avoiders/cheats/fraudsters.