Tag: COVID-19

COVID-19 and Illegal Wildlife Trade: Where does the Law Fail and How Digital Technologies can help?

Posted on by admin

The exact origin of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has not yet been identified, however there are indications that it may be linked to pangolin. Pangolins are protected at the highest level under international environmental law via a ban on international trade in all pangolin species since 2017, however they are still considered to be the world’s most trafficked mammal. This has put illegal or unsustainable wildlife […]

COVID-19 Hackathons – Winners announced for third and fourth events

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

We are pleased to be able to announce the winning teams for the final two events in the NERC COVID-19 Digital Sprint Hackathons – Ecosystem Services and Visualising Risk. We had some really fantastic entries to choose amongst and the judging panels had a hard job. But after much deliberation, the winners to date are […]

COVID-19 Hackathons – Winners announced for first and second events

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

We are pleased to be able to announce the winning teams for the first two events in the NERC COVID-19 Digital Sprint Hackathons – Air Quality and Recovery. We had some really fantastic entries to choose amongst and the judging panels had a hard job. But after much deliberation, the woinners to date are announced […]

COVID-19 Hackathons – Mid-point update

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

A big thank you to all the teams who have participated to date in our COVID-19 Hackathons – the events are proving popular. As of today we have now completed the first two events – ‘Air Quality‘ and ‘Recovery‘. The judging panel have met with respect to the first event and the winners have been […]

Google Earth Engine and NO2 levels – Sentinel 5P

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

We wanted to experiment with the fantastic Google Earth Engine tool, which allows easy access to petabytes of satellite imagery, current and historic. We were interested to access the data from the Copernicus Mission Sentinel 5P satellite platform (which was launched in 2017) with a view to using its atmospheric monitoring capability to visualise the […]

COVID-19 Hackathons

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

The COVID-19 pandemic is leading to profound changes in society, with consequent worldwide environmental impacts, positive and negative. As we seek to understand fully the consequences of these impacts, there is a pressing need for tools and solutions to help us characterise and understand what has happened. The development and sharing of these through the […]