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How Remote Sensing Can Improve African City Planning and La
nd Management
\nBy 2050 one in four people will be living in Africa\,
with most of the population living in urban areas. This puts Urban Plannin
g at the centre of Africa&rsquo\;s rapidly expanding urbanization. In this
context\, civilian drones are emerging as powerful and accessible technol
ogy tools providing planners with high quality aerial data to inform their
work. Drone technology can now reach unprecedented levels of precision\,
making aerial data collected through remote sensing increasingly useful in
informing city planning and sustainable land and disaster risk management
on the African continent.
\nAfrican countries are poised to join the
Drone Frontier. In Tanzania\, authorities launched the Zanzibar Mapping I
nitiative (ZMI)\, which has successfully deployed small-scale drones to co
llect the data necessary to improve the planning process. Zanzibar has bee
n mapping the whole island with a precision 25 times superior to that of G
oogle Maps. Projects like the ZMI are well-suited to be replicated elsewhe
re in Africa and develop the local capacity for the use of advanced roboti
cs technologies and meet the increasing data processing needs.
\nDisc
ussions around concrete examples will highlight how advances in drone tech
nology and aerial big data and North-South cooperation contribute to tackl
ing the SDGs and build local capacity in science\, technology and innovati
on.
\n
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\nProgram
\n6:00pm Doors Open
\n6:30pm Welcome Remarks
and Presentations
\n7:15pm Panel Discussion and Networking Reception<
br />\n9:00pm Doors Close
\nSpeakers
\n
\nMr. Juma Reli\, Executive Secretary of
the Zanzibar Planning Commission
\nMr. Juma Reli is the Exec
utive Secretary of the Zanzibar Planning Commission where he reports direc
tly to the President of Zanzibar Mr. Ali Mohamed Shein. Prior to this role
\, Mr. Juma Reli served as the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Tanzania. Mr
. Juma Reli holds an MBA in international business from the University of
Birmingham in the United Kingdom.
\n
\nMs. Khadija Abdulla Ali\, UAV Pilot at Uhurulabs\, GIS Officer
at the State University of Zanzibar
\nMs. Khadija Abdulla Al
i is a drone pilot for the Zanzibar Mapping Initiative\, Uhurulabs\, and W
ingcopter. She was trained by senseFly and Drone Adventures and has worked
with WeRobotics and the World Bank on several drone projects\, specializi
ng in geo-tagging\, large scale aerial mapping\, and 3D modelling. She hol
ds a degree in Information Technology Application and Management at the St
ate University of Zanzibar where she also serves as a GIS Officer.
\n
\nDr. Manu Lubrano\, Founder of
Drone Adventures and CEO and Co-Founder of INVOLI
\nDr. Manu
Lubrano is founder of the NGO Drone Adventures\, CEO and Co-founder or th
e company INVOLI and former Head of Industrialization at Swiss drone manuf
acturer senseFly. Manu is in the drone industry since 2012. He is an exper
ienced entrepreneur with a Ph.D. in Manufacturing Systems and Robotics fro
m the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and he is part
icularly skilled in Computer Science\, Robotics\, Industrialization and st
art-ups.
\n
\nMr. Stephen Mather\, GIS Manager at Cleveland Metropar
ks and Founder of OpenDroneMap
\nStephen has been working in
GIS\, Planning\, and related fields since 1998\, working for the last 9 y
ears as the GIS Manager for Cleveland Metroparks. He has been interested i
n the application of computer vision to geospatial analyses since 2004\, a
nd has recently initiated the \;OpenDroneMap \;pro
ject\, a toolkit offering a suite of open source computer vision software
for use with UAS (drone) and street level images. Additionally\, Stephen w
orks with the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and Karisoke Research Center (Dian
Fossey Gorilla Fund International) to research mountain gorillas in Rwanda
. Stephen is also coauthor of the PostGIS Cookbook and blogs all his geosp
atial and ecological whims at \;https://smathermather.co
m
\nModerator
\n
\nDr. Mark Iliffe\, Geographer a
t the Global Geospatial Information Management\, United Nations\nMark Iliffe is a Geographer working at the Global Geospatial Informa
tion Management Secretariat\, Statistics Division\, United Nations. Mark w
orks at the intersection of Mapping\, Policy\, and International Developme
nt. Previously\, he was the Senior Geospatial Specialist at the World Bank
\, Tanzania Country Office where he initiated and managed Ramani Huria and
the Zanzibar Mapping Initiative\, as well as other mapping and urbanisati
on projects in East Africa. Mark holds a PhD in Geography from the Univers
ity of Nottingham.
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SUMMARY:Aerial Futures: The Drone Frontier - Urban Planning with Drones in
Africa
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