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Transforming Weather Water data into value-added Information services for sustainable Growth in Africa

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Project "TWIGA" data sheet

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Coordinator
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT 

Organization address
address: STEVINWEG 1
city: DELFT
postcode: 2628 CN
website: www.tudelft.nl

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 Coordinator Country Netherlands [NL]
 Project website http://www.twiga-h2020.eu
 Total cost 5˙006˙823 €
 EC max contribution 4˙979˙622 € (99%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.3.5.5. (Developing comprehensive and sustained global environmental observation and information systems)
 Code Call H2020-SC5-2017-OneStageB
 Funding Scheme RIA
 Starting year 2018
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2018-02-01   to  2022-01-31

 Partnership

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# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT NL (DELFT) coordinator 1˙122˙468.00
2    HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH BV NL (DELFT) participant 494˙200.00
3    STARLAB BARCELONA SL ES (BARCELONA) participant 337˙625.00
4    FUTUREWATER SL ES (CARTAGENA) participant 336˙250.00
5    HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR UMWELTFORSCHUNG GMBH - UFZ DE (LEIPZIG) participant 331˙687.00
6    IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE UK (LONDON) participant 312˙979.00
7    POLITECNICO DI MILANO IT (MILANO) participant 278˙187.00
8    South African Weather Service ZA (PRETORIA) participant 251˙025.00
9    TRANS-AFRICAN HYDRO-METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY KE (NAIROBI) participant 229˙949.00
10    GEOMATICS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT SRL IT (LOMAZZO) participant 228˙406.00
11    GHANA INSURANCE ASSOCIATION GH (ACCRA) participant 172˙679.00
12    NOORT HARMANNUS, CONRADUS PIETER NL (AMSTERDAM) participant 172˙187.00
13    MAKERERE UNIVERSITY UG (KAMPALA) participant 166˙273.00
14    MICROSTEP-MIS SPOL SRO SK (BRATISLAVA) participant 164˙446.00
15    Farmerline Ltd GH (KUMASI) participant 137˙500.00
16    STRATHMORE UNIVERSITY KE (NAIROBI) participant 131˙750.00
17    KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY KUMASI GH (KUMASI) participant 112˙006.00

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 Project objective

Objectives: Provide currently unavailable geo-information on weather, water and climate for sub-Saharan Africa by enhancing satellite-based geo-data with innovative in situ sensors and developing related information services that answer needs of African stakeholders and the GEOSS community. Concept: A systematic feedback loop to reciprocally validate in situ measurements and satellite data in one integrated model. Over 500 in situ measurement stations using citizen science. State of the art advancement & Innovation potential: Building on and pushing further recent advances in sensor and communication technology to provide cheaper and more robust in situ measurements covering a wider area at a higher resolution in sub-Saharan Africa. Working with tech-hubs in Europe and Africa to feed creation and growth of European and African start-ups that develop sensors and geo-services, delivering complete value chains from sensor to customer-ready information delivery. Impact on call expectations: -Integration of in situ components into models based on GEOSS and Copernicus data -OGC compliant science-grade geo-data (atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere) delivered to GEOSS, incl. near-real time statistically characterized soil moisture data from Africa that can be used operationally (not currently available) and radar derived soil moisture measurements also available under cloudy conditions, or vegetation overgrowth -at least 20 new products for use in food, water, energy security, climate change and resilience to natural hazards validated and ready for large-scale implementation by consortium partners and external stakeholders -based on at least 10 innovative, cost efficient, robust, sensors, including fast neutron coun-ter, track¬ing of convective storms with consumer lightning sensors and accelerometer for tree-crown weighing -(Bio-degradable) sensors reduced to one tenth to one hundredth of their current price, extremely low-maintenance, use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2019 Nick van de Giesen, Steven Weijs
Say it in 51 bytes: LoRa for hydrological observations
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EGU 2019 2019-10-03
2019 Richard Cliffe Ssenyunzi, Bosco Oruru, Florence Mutonyi D’ujanga, Eugenio Realini, Stefano Barindelli, Giulio Tagliaferro, Nick van de Giesen
Variability and accuracy of Zenith Total Delay over the East African tropical region
published pages: 900-920, ISSN: 0273-1177, DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2019.05.027
Advances in Space Research 64/4 2019-10-03
2019 J. Mendes, J. Botai, N. Zwane, B. Mabasa
An assessment of surface shortwave radiation in South Africa
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ICEP 2019 Conference Proceedings 2019-10-03
2018 \"\"\"Van De Giesen, N.; Ten Veldhuis, M. C.; Annor, F. O.; de Villiers, D.\"\" \"
Sensors for TWIGA: New observations in Africa to produce actionable information for agriculture, energy generation, and disaster response.
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AGU 2018 2019-10-03
2019 Didier de Villiers
Something fishy going on! Evaluating the Poisson hypothesis for rainfall estimation using intervalometers: first results from an experiment in Tanzania.
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2019-10-03
2018 Nick van de Giesen, Andreas Krietemeyer, Marie-claire ten Veldhuis, Frank Annor
TWIGA: Sensors for geo-services in Africa. Early results, perspectives, and an invitation
published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:
EGU 2018 2019-10-03

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