WHAT IS ONEKANA ?
ONEKANA (‘to make visible’ in Swahili) is a 2-year Earth Observation research project (2023-2024) funded by the STEREO-IV programme of the Belgian Science Policy.
Its overall scientific objective is to explore the potential of EO and Citizen Science to study how and why urban dwellers with different levels of deprivation are divergently exposed to temperature variations and extremes in low-income countries.
With this project, we want to make urban thermal inequality visible using AI and EO, with the participation of local communities.
The main focus of this project is on sub-Saharan Africa, with small-scale experiments foreseen in Latin America to test the transferability of the developed methods.
Our aim is to model the location, extent and characteristics of areas affected by both high levels of deprivation and high levels of temperature variation/extremes,
and to quantify the vulnerable population exposed to such conditions.
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44th EARSeL Symposium (26-29 May 2025, Prague)
On May 24 2025, by Sabine Vanhuysse
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8th EARSeL Workshop on the Global South, Tuesday 27th May 2025: We will present our work on air temperature modelling, thermal susceptibility modelling, and the relationships between urban morphology and socioeconomic status in African cities.
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Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event 2023 (17-19 May 2023, Heraklion)
On May 15 2023, by Sabine Vanhuysse
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We will be presenting our new AI developments for mapping deprived urban areas (DUAs) at the city level with Sentinel-1/2 imagery
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