Earth Observation
Innovation Laboratories
Geospatial data infrastructure for environmental research across Sub-Saharan Africa — empowering Taita Taveta University and the University of Nairobi with satellite imagery, processing pipelines, and collaborative tools.
Platform Capabilities
End-to-end Earth Observation data lifecycle — from acquisition to analysis
Satellite Data
Curated Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery and Landsat time-series archives for East Africa. STAC-indexed and cloud-optimized for direct analysis.
Processing Pipelines
Run NDVI computation, change detection, and land-cover classification. Custom openEO process graphs with GPU-accelerated batch processing via Celery.
Research Notebooks
JupyterHub with pre-configured Python environments, direct access to SeaweedFS object storage, and collaborative notebook sharing across research teams.
Research Sites
Two Kenyan universities driving environmental science with geospatial tools
Taita Taveta University
Taita Hills, KenyaForest ecosystem monitoring, biodiversity assessment, and land degradation mapping in the Taita Hills biodiversity hotspot.
University of Nairobi
Nairobi, KenyaUrban heat island analysis, agricultural land use change monitoring, and regional climate studies across the Greater Nairobi metropolitan area.