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Honorable Mention Winner World Bank Big Data Innovation Challenge

Published on 8 February 2017 by Saskia van Pelt

The World Bank launched a global call to find big data solutions that addressed issues in the critical challenge of Food security and nutrition. The goal was to help better understand the impacts of climate change and positively influences decisions by using big data effectively. Weather Impact has taken up this challenge and created the innovate Banana Network. With our application we are recognized as Honorable Mention Winner by the World Bank.

CropMon video pitch

Published on 30 January 2017 by Saskia van Pelt

Watch here our new video-pitch about CropMon. The CropMon service in Kenya provides local information on weather forecasts, current crop growth and farm management practices. Weather Impact delivers tailored weather forecasts and monitors current weather conditions. Farmers receive text messages with weather forecasts and farming advice on a regular basis. In addition, innovative smartphone- and web applications are developed for farmer organisations and other stakeholders.

Improved food production with Dutch technology

Published on 17 January 2017 by Saskia van Pelt

Weather Impact is involved in several projects in Africa as a provider of information on daily weather and climate risks. These projects are part of the G4AW, a programme that improves food security in developing countries by using satellite data. This video published by NOS includes an interview with a Ugandese farmer how the technology that is developed in a G4AW project helps him to improve his agribusiness. On our projects page you can find more information about our activities in Africa.

Climate Services in 2017

Published on 6 January 2017 by Saskia van Pelt

Weather Impact wishes you a climate-smart 2017!
We are glad to announce that we have expanded our climate services with a monthly Climate Bulletin. The bulletin gives a global and regional overview of last months’ climate. Temperature and precipitation hot spots are discussed and interesting weather events are highlighted. See here the example bulletin of November 2016. If you are interested in the current Climate Bulletin for your local area, please email us at info@weatherimpact.com.

The Neural Banana Forecast

Published on 10 November 2016 by Saskia van Pelt

Weather Impact submitted an innovative idea to the World Banks’ big data innovation challenge (link to: https://bigdatainnovationchallenge.org/) for food security.

Gerrit Hiemstra in the “Sustainable Top 100′

Published on 10 October 2016 by Saskia van Pelt

We congratulate Gerrit Hiemstra with his position in the ‘duurzame 100’ (sustainable 100) election in Trouw, a Dutch newspaper. More information can be found here.

2 new employees in our team

Published on 6 October 2016 by Saskia van Pelt

Weather Impact welcomes two new employees in the team; Jurgen Welleweerd and Sebastian Scher. Jurgen will work as a backend and application developer, in close collaboration with the developers of HydroNET. Sebastian will work as an expert extreme weather and climate change. He holds a Master degree in Climate Physics from Utrecht University. Sebastian and Jurgen will work on our African projects where they will sustain a reliable delivery of weather information. Sebastian and Jurgen can be contacted at sebastian.scher@weatherimpact.com and jurgen.welleweerd@weatherimpact.com.

Gerrit Hiemstra in NL Space movie

Published on 9 June 2016 by Saskia van Pelt

The Netherlands is one of the primary architects of space activities in Europe and has always played a leading international role in space science research. At Weather Impact we use space technology for our products and applications. Weather models, for example, use observations from weather satellites as input, especially in areas where traditional data sources are not available. Read more ›

Fiona van der Burgt joined Weather Impact

Published on 7 April 2016 by Saskia van Pelt

Weather Impact welcomes Fiona van der Burgt as our new specialist in extreme weather and climate change. Fiona has a Bachelor degree in Physics and Astronomy and a Master degree in Physics and Climate from Utrecht University. She is an expert in analysis of big data and has an creative and entrepreneurial attitude. Fiona is motivated and inspired by translating scientific and innovative insights to practical applications for society. Her first work day for Weather Impact was in Ethiopia, were she joined the meeting of the CommonSense project. Currently, she is mainly working on our African projects and in addition explores new products and opportunities for Weather Impact. Fiona can be contacted at fiona.vanderburgt@weatherimpact.com.

Mission Ethiopia Common Sense

Published on 24 February 2016 by Saskia van Pelt

Since January 2016 Weather Impact joined the Common Sense consortium. In this project the livelihood of farmers in Ethiopia is improved by providing information based on satellite and weather data. Farmers are targeted through their supporting network (farmers’ cooperative unions and associations, micro finance institutions, extension services by development agents from the Ministry of Agriculture). Services are developed that should place the farmers in a better position to sell their products to the market and to get more accurate and farm specific advice. Tailored weather information provided by Weather Impact will improve farm management and protect crops from climate and weather risks.