2026年6月4日，国际昆虫生理与生态学中心（icipe）的研究人员、科学家及技术人员齐聚该中心内罗毕校区，参加了一场关于 Digital Earth Africa 平台与数据产品的实操培训。此次培训是 icipe 全面承担……以来，双方开展的首批正式能力建设合作活动之一。

On 4 June 2026, researchers, scientists and technical staff at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) gathered at the institute’s Nairobi campus for a hands-on introduction to Digital Earth Africa’s platforms and data products. The session, marked one of the first formal capacity-building engagements between the two organisations since icipe assumed full […]

国际昆虫生理与生态中心（icipe）已在非洲热带生态学与害虫研究领域积累了数十年的专业经验，其地理信息部门已利用卫星与遥感技术开展入侵物种监测、气候风险建模及土地管理决策支持工作。数字地球非洲计划（DE Africa）的大陆级数据存档与开放获取平台大幅拓展了这一能力，可提供仅靠实地调查无法实现的大范围实时分析。 内罗毕市快速的城市扩张提供了另一个具体案例。利用DE Africa沙盒环境开展的分析显示，该市建成区面积从2017年的570平方公里增至2021年的590平方公里；该数据直接关联土地利用规划及可持续发展目标（SDG）11的报告工作。同期地表温度趋势分析则揭示了城市扩张所引发的热效应。 本次会议展示了DE Africa大陆级服务的广泛覆盖范围。重点介绍的产品包括： 此外，跨领域应用——如利用雷达数据进行船舶探测、土地覆被分类以及地表采矿活动筛查——进一步凸显了该平台在icipe团队核心工作主题之外的多功能性。 对icipe而言，作为一个研究领域涵盖热带地区昆虫生态、农业韧性及环境健康的机构，DE Africa的数据基础设施为其提供了全新的分析维度。尽管卫星观测无法替代实地工作，却能抵达实地团队难以企及之处：例如追踪某湖泊三十年来的浊度变化、一夜之间完成区域尺度的作物胁迫制图，或在地面监测发现之前即识别毁林迹象。本次会议是系统性地在icipe全机构范围内构建此类能力的第一步。

icipe has built decades of expertise in tropical ecology and pest research across Africa, and its geo-information unit already uses satellite and remote-sensing technologies to track invasive species, model climate risk and guide land management decisions. DE Africa’s continental archive and open-access platforms extend that capacity significantly, offering real-time analysis at a scale that field surveys alone cannot do. Nairobi’s rapid urban expansion provided another concrete example. Analysis using DE Africa’s sandbox showed the city’s built-up area growing from 570 km² in 2017 to 590 km² by 2021, data directly relevant to land-use planning and SDG 11 reporting. Surface temperature trend analysis covering the same period illustrated the thermal consequences of that expansion. The session demonstrated the breadth of DE Africa’s continental services. Key products covered included: In addition, crosscutting applications including ship detection with radar data, landcover classification and surface mining screening highlighted the platform’s versatility beyond the thematic areas icipe’s teams work in most directly. For icipe, an institution whose work spans insect ecology, agricultural resilience and environmental health across the tropics, DE Africa’s data infrastructure offers a new layer of analysis. In as much as satellite observations cannot replace fieldwork, they can reach the places field teams cannot such as tracking a lake’s turbidity across three decades, mapping crop stress across a region overnight, or flagging deforestation before ground-level monitoring catches it. This session was a first step in building that capacity systematically across the institution.