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Tools for Digitalisation of Agriculture in Ethiopia

Ethiopian ministries and universities require easy access to EO and environmental data to help land restoration projects. During the OEMC project, online maps and tools to monitor vegetation and land productivity will be produced in order to support Ethiopia’s strategic investment framework and natural resource management policy development.

What is the challenge?

The lack of data collection in Ethiopia thwarts the monitoring of long term changes before and after the sustainable land management implemented by the local community. How much soil is lost in Ethiopia due to gully erosion? How can we find out the impact of disturbance in sustainable land management watersheds under different performance?

Our solution

Long term, time-series data back to 2000 helps monitor the change before and after the intervention around 2010-2015. We use satellite image collection to derive changes and differences to have an objective view.

Time series of elevation measurement show how dams in gullies counter erosion

Who will benefit?

Ministry of Agriculture Ethiopia, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Target Partner Organizations
OEMC Leading Partner
Get in touch!

Martijn Witjes
OpenGeoHub Foundation
martijn.witjes@opengeohub.org

Type of output

Online maps and tools to monitor vegetation and land productivity through long term, time-series data.

Technology readiness level

TRL3: Experimental proof of concept

Location

Ethiopia

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