Data & Software Tools

Sep 4 2025

Data

• Digital Earth Africa.
• Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, European Space Agency (ESA)
• NASA/USGS Landsat satellite imagery
• ESRI Land Use/Land Cover (LULC)
• OpenStreetMap (OSM) data

Software & Tools

• Jupyter Notebooks.
• QGIS
• Python
• Urban Change Detection script on DEA
• MOLUSCE plugin for QGIS (Modules for Land Use Change Evaluation)
• SAGA NextGen plugin for QGIS (for raster filtering/smoothing)

Website Hosting

• Astro with markdown to build the websites
• Netlify
• LetsEncrypt
• Google CloudDNS

Related reading

• G20 DRR Hackathon Background.
• Our Team Hackathon Approach.
• Our Team Hackathon Results.
• If we had more time….