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6 weeks

Building-Footprint Digitization

Digitizing building footprints from satellite (Maxar) and drone imagery into OpenStreetMap and the Climate Risk Database, using the HOT Tasking Manager and JOSM.

6Weeks duration

About this placement

Digitizing building footprints from satellite (Maxar) and drone imagery into OpenStreetMap and the Climate Risk Database, using the HOT Tasking Manager and JOSM.

Impact & open data

Placements are hands-on: participants produce real geospatial data that is published openly to the Resilience Academy Climate Risk Database and reused by cities, universities and communities.

0Courses provided
0Lessons delivered
—Students per run
OpenData published to the CRD
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Placement history

2 years · 50 students placed to date.

202125 placed · OMDTZ u2014 Dar es Salaam
202025 placed · OMDTZ / HOT u2014 Dar es Salaam (Maxar imagery)

Placement details

Duration6 weeks
LocationDar es Salaam; Zanzibar (Pemba)
EligibilityUndergraduates with basic GIS training, selected by university coordinators.
StipendDaily travel & communication stipend via mobile money.
CertificateNot offered
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Team involved

Msilikale MsilangaResilience Academy Project Manager

Funders

World Bank GFDRRFunder (World Bank / TURP)

Partners

OpenMap Development Tanzania
State University of Zanzibar

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