OCTOBER 6, 2021
On 6 October at 1:45pm Bern time, 50x2030 will convene a session, “From the Ground, Up. Improving Geospatial Modelling through a Collaborative Approach to Ground-Truthing”, during the 2021 World Data Forum.
During the session, five experts will share innovative work that is tackling the challenge of adding value to both traditional survey data and innovative data sources via their integration. The focus of the seminar will be on using ground data to improve crop and yield maps at high resolution in smallholder production systems, collecting objective plant, weather, and soil data through low-cost multiple-sensor stations, setting-up an open infrastructure to make ground truthing datasets accessible at scale as well as linking traditional and spatial data for official statistics, and how to translate all this into benefits for smallholder farmers.
The event will be chaired by Haishan Fu, Director of the World Bank's Development Data Group and chair of the 50x2030 Partnership Council. She will draw the connection between the presentations and the ways in which the Initiative’s work program enables surveys to feed into remote sensing applications that produce actionable, high-resolution data of key indicators at-scale.
Presentations will be made by:
- Talip Kilic, Senior Economist, World Bank
- Hamed Alemohammad, Chief Data Scientist, Radiant Earth Foundation
- Jess Bollinger, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Arable Labs
- Dominik Rozkrut, President, Statistics Poland
- Keith Ahumuza, Senior Statistician, Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS)
To attend the event, please register here:
https://worldbankgroup.webex.com/worldbankgroup/onstage/g.php?MTID=ea0fe801fb17c61b79d2bc8d1b6cfe777
