Entries by David Taverner, Caribou Space

Satellite technology in Humanitarian Decision Making and Risk Assessment:
Understanding the challenges from the ‘user’ perspective

About Caribou Space Caribou Space supports organisations to bridge the space and development sectors by working with governments, space agencies, development agencies and private sector space companies. We are particularly interested in whether and how satellite technologies can be used to achieve positive social and environmental outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, and whether more […]

Independent Endline Evaluation of the CommonSensing Project

The CommonSensing project aims to strengthen the capacities of Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu in reaching important sustainable development objectives and particularly Goals 9 (Industry, innovation and infrastructure) and 13 (Climate action) under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Beginning in 2018, the project has been implemented by a consortium of partners specialising in satellite […]

Ghana Forest Compliance Service Adopted As Official Land Use Maps Provider for CFI Ghana

The development of this service was supported by the UK Space Agency International Partnerships Programme. There is now adoption of the Ghana Forest Compliance Service as the official land-use maps provider for the Cocoa & Forests Initiative. It means that any suppliers sourcing cocoa from Ghana can now use these land-use maps to ensure their cocoa […]

UK Space Agency IPP’s Agri-Webinar

The UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme (IPP) hosted an online workshop on Thursday 29th October for the agricultural projects in IPP. Eleven projects attended, represented by ~35 attendees. The objective of the session was to provide a forum for networking and sharing of knowledge and lessons between the IPP projects, with the work undertaken […]

METEOR: Modelling Exposure Through Earth Observation Routines

METEOR is a UK Space Agency International Partnership (IPP) project addressing the poor understanding, in some ODA countries, of population exposure to multiple natural hazards. With that in mind, METEOR is co-developing satellite-based Earth Observation (EO) routines to deliver robust information on population exposure and its vulnerability to multi-hazards including earthquakes, flooding, landslides and volcanoes.  This […]

IPP Presence in UK Space Conference

The International Partnership Programme was well represented at the 2019 UK Space Conference which this year welcomed its highest number of delegates so far (>2,100).    A 30-minute ‘101’ on IPP was held on the first day of the Conference, by IPP’s Head of International Relations, Liz Cox, who chaired the session and was joined by two representatives of […]

UK Space Skills Support Sustainable Development

UK satellite-enabled data technology, delivered through UK Aid, is improving the life chances of people around the world by providing better ways to tackle global issues such as deforestation, sustainable food production and disaster response, new analysis shows. At the same time this is boosting the UK economy.  The three reports are: A Three-Year Progress […]

SatSummit 2018 – Satellite Data for Global Development

David Taverner of Caribou Space presented for UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme at SatSummit 2018. SatSummit convenes leaders in the satellite industry and experts in global development for in-depth conversations on solving the world’s most critical development challenges with satellite data. From climate change to population growth to natural resource availability, earth observation data […]