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Coastline Model Development

Turkey

  • Organization: UNV - United Nations Volunteers
  • Location: Turkey
  • Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
  • Occupational Groups:
  • Closing Date: Closed

Details

Mission and objectives

Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (IICPSD) supports the private sector and foundations to become transformative partners in development through research, advocacy for inclusive business, facilitation of public-private dialogue and brokering partnerships. IICPSD, established in 2011 in partnership with the Government of Turkey, is one of UNDP's six Global Policy Centres. It leads UNDP’s global work on private sector and foundations and supports UNDP’s offices all over the world. The Center focuses on four thematic areas: 1. Inclusive Business; 2. Private Sector Engagement in Skills Development; 3. Impact investing; 4. Resilience and Crisis Response. The Center also hosts four global initiatives: Business Call to Action, SDG Philanthropy Platform, Global Islamic Finance and Impact Investing Platform and Connecting Business Initiative.

Context

IICPSD’s SDG AI Lab initiative (sdgailab.org) requires assistance in further develop and potentially migrate an existing coastline recession tool. The tool can be visited under: https://github.com/kvos/CoastSat . This model was implemented and customized by our partners and needs further development. The tool is based in Python and is able to detect shorelines based on publicly available Satellite Images. The images are leveraged by using Google Earth Engine. The results of this tool were implemented in the experimental service called Google Earth Engine Apps. We will be working in a SCRUM based process and try to iteratively explore the solutions for the problem. The goal is to achieve milestones every 3 weeks and to finish the work after 3 months. Our partners will be leading the decision-making process and set goals and targets to the team of volunteers to achieve the required outputs. The Lab provides in-house expertise, resources, and research support to various UNDP projects to mainstream digital transformation to development problems and to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Task description

The online volunteers will participate in migrating an existing online tool implemented in Google Earth Engine Apps to a new environment. The task might also involve the development of new features for the existing tool, which is based on a coastline recession model (link in the background section).

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