Authors: Julia Kraatz and Katharina Demmich
Introduction
Have you ever found yourself reading about climate change and wondered to what extent you or someone you know might be impacted? How your community might be impacted? And then, how you could find out this information?
As global emissions rise and the state of our climate becomes increasingly uncertain, questions like these are common, and you would not be alone in asking them. That’s why projects like DIRECTED1 and I-CISK2 aim to create open-source, interoperable, scalable, and user-friendly platforms to provide information on the risk of severe weather events and the effects of climate change to users, just like you.
In the following sections, we will take you through two use-cases within the DIRECTED and I-CISK projects that showcase how climate information can be accessible, and informative, within the respective projects’ labs.
I am James Ondieki, originally from Nairobi, Kenya. I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Geomatic Engineering and Geospatial Information Systems from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in 2019. After working as a geospatial web developer, I realized the need to deepen my analytical skills to extract more insights from large geospatial datasets. This motivation led me to pursue a master’s in Geoinformatics and Spatial Data Science at the Institute for Geoinformatics (