DescriptionQuoting The Food and Agriculture Organization, “Smallholders have little say in policy decisions that impact on their lives, or in the design of research agendas”. This can change by empowering smallholder farmers to be not just weather intelligence receivers, but also weather intelligence contributors by using the built-in sensors on their smartphones and with the use of the proposed MiWeather system to sample, relay, quality assess, analyse and share weather observations.
The system can be available to any smartphone and the resulting crowd sourcing of data can increase sensor density per location. The density of observations will support data quality analysis and greater reliability.
With the MiWeather App, large- and small- scale farmers as well as urban gardeners, learners and educators are now our COLLECTIVE FUTURE informal METEOROLOGISTS.
Co-authors to your solutionMeena D. Lysko, Mpho Mofokeng, and Brighton Mabasa
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Link to an online working solution or prototype (Required by the final day of the Submission & Collaboration phase):http://datavisuals.co.za/miweather/
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