The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography
MapScaping
Podcast
Episodes
Listen, download, subscribe
Geospatial Support for the UN World Food Programme
• 41 minSo you might be wondering why the United Nations World Food Programme needs a geospatial support unit. Let me give you a brief overview, Basically, they curate and maintain global datasets that they use to model the risk of sudden-onset disasters than might lead to a food security risk. They use this model to send out early warnings to at-risk communities and help with the response when disasters happen. Of course, there is more to it ... But I will let Rohini Sampoornam Swaminathan ( The head of the Geospatial Support Unit at the UN World Food Programme) explain it in more detail. The Hunger Map https://hungermap.wfp.org/ BeforeAfterMap OSM Before-After Maps is an online tool that allows anyone to easily compare how a particular area looked in terms of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data at two different years, side by side, and get a visual insight into mapping contributions over time. https://beforeafter.baato.io/
The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography RSS Feed
