Remote Sensing

UNICEF to commission remote sensing prospection of groundwater in Ethiopia

UNICEF Ethiopia plans in 2018 to map the groundwater potential of 41 woredas (administrative divisions) within EU’s Resilience Building programme (RESET II). The methodology used in 2016/17 can be found in the links below: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/hydrogeological-study-drought-affected-areas-afar-somali-oromia-and-snnp-regions-ethiopia-part-1 http://washdev.iwaponline.com/content/early/2016/07/08/washdev.2016.021 The 2018 methodology will have the addition of a socio-economic component with rangeland inputs from PRIMEhttps://prime-ethiopia.org/ . The mapping and…

09/01/2018
High-Tech meets Low-Tech: Using remote sensing to help manual drilling

Drilling for water can be expensive: it can cost up to £10,000 to drill a borehole that will have a £500 handpump installed on it. However, there are alternatives – manual drilling methods are often most effective and just as good quality, but the challenge for the drillers is knowing where they can find good…

29/09/2014