Blog
Every now and then we will post a blog in this section. A short narrative about what's happening in the project from one of our team members' perspective. So check this section regularly for a little 'behind the scenes' !
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| 03.02.2016
STARS-One heralds the überization of world agriculture
Pierre C. Sibiry Traore, STARS Work Package 2 leader in West Africa, explains how android apps like STARS-One prefigure the uberization of world agriculture through the mobile delivery of crisp, timely and actionable information directly from satellites to farmers and input suppliers. To know more… read his blog!
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| 12.03.2015
UAVs and STARS: The adventures of a master student
One of the main goals for my master thesis was to gather my own data in another country. I would never have guessed that this would turn out in flying an octocopter for the STARS-project in Mali.
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| 12.01.2015
Near the Atlantic at Dakar’s harbour, STARS meets
Me and my three colleagues from CIMMYT-Bangladesh started our journey from Dhaka to Dakar, Senegal on Saturday, October 10, 2015.
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| 10.28.2015
STARS: towards land tenure security in Sukumba, Mali
“No stopping half-way!”. This is the powerful message we heard from Lassina Dembele, two mayors and a half-dozen town counselors in Sukumba, Koutiala district, Mali, when local authorities hosted a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation delegation.
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| 07.07.2015
Come rain come shine - STARS not deterred
So I pack for summer, thinking to myself it should be summer almost everywhere I’ll be over the next two months. But, oh guess what, rain, cold, rain. This is what I was in for, for a week at ITC University of Twente, in Enschede, Netherlands, while attending the STARS General Meeting.
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| 06.22.2015
STARS Landscaping Study Expert Workshop Montpellier
The morning of the 17th of March I woke up early. Very early. While waiting for the breakfast room to be opened I looked outside of the building and enjoyed seeing the sun rise over the historical city center of Montpellier.
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| 04.28.2015
STARS on the 9th EARSeL workshop
The 9th EARSeL SIG Imaging Spectroscopy workshop is a topmost meeting for European Remote Sensing researchers emphasizing in hyperspectral remote sensing. A STARS delegation contributed to this meeting. STARS postdoc Dimitris Stratoulias wrote a blog about it.
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| 04.08.2015
Remote sensing for smallholding — With eyes on sticks
Arfat, my tomtom driver this early morning, has agreed to take me down the coastal road out of Cox’s Bazar towards a place called Inani Beach. It is still dark, the heavy air smells of a lit fireplace with a touch of Indian subcontinent spice. ...
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