Stories from the ground from Commons Connect usage
Can data-driven planning lead to a participatory and accountable approach to natural resource governance? Reflections from Ajmal, SUPPORT (Jharkhand) Hear…
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ecological restoration toolkit: Bioacoustics Analysis pipelines
Connected to our work on continuous ecological monitoring, we set up bioacoustics recorders at four sites in Delhi to continuously…
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Ecological Restoration Toolkit: Identifying prospective sites for restoration
Restoration sites are typically identified using expert-defined rules on land use, elevation, rainfall, etc., or through change detection from historical…
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Early Lessons from Commons Connect Pilots
Published: July 2025 How can digital tools strengthen local planning and ensure that the voices of rural communities shape their…
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Revealing Inequities in MGNREGA: What Data and Field Insights Tell Us
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), enacted in 2005, was designed as a powerful tool to ensure…
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CoRE Stack: Updates – September 2024 to April 2025
In a world where climate change and environmental degradation are becoming increasingly urgent, digital technologies are stepping up to provide…
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Explore Social-Ecological Insights with the Know Your Landscape Dashboard
We’re excited to introduce the updated Know Your Landscape (KYL) dashboard! This powerful tool helps you dive deep into the…
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Scalable Monitoring of Tree Canopy Density and Height in India at High Spatial Resolutions
Forests and plantations are the backbone of our planet’s ecological balance, offering habitats, absorbing carbon dioxide, regulating climate, and sustaining…
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Assessing the impact of farm ponds on agricultural productivity in Northern India
Assessing the impact of farm ponds on agricultural productivity in Northern India Introduction Government welfare schemes such as the Mahatma…
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Initial Experiments with a Scalable Machine Learning Based Approach for Downscaling the MOD16A2 Evapotranspiration Product
Objective Over the years, the amount of cropping and by extension the water used for cropping has intensified greatly. The…
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Notes from the CoRE stack Research to Impact Collaborative held on July 8th 2024
ACM COMPASS is an international conference focused on the application of computing technologies for sustainability. COMPASS 2024 was held in…
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Validating Impact: Field Observations from Waterbody Rejuvenation in Madhya Pradesh
Validating Impact: Field Observations from Waterbody Rejuvenation in Madhya Pradesh Ramneek Kaur, Postdoctoral Fellow, ACT4D group, IIT Delhi 16 February,…
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CoRE Stack at the Participatory AI Research Symposium
CoRE Stack at the Participatory AI Research Symposium In the crazy week of February 16th this year when Delhi hosted…
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Innovation Challenge #2: Mining Insights from Events
Motivated by Google’s Groundsource project which identified urban flood events from news articles and used them as training data to…
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CoRE stack developer community
Update – April 2026: Check out the CoRE stack innovation challenge #2 on using geotagged news event datasets alongside geospatial…
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First round of Innovation Challenge Advances
We launched the CoRE stack innovation challenge on Nov 22, 2025, least expecting the tremendous participation we saw from students,…
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TESSERA and CoRE stack hackathon on Geospatial AI
The prolific Anil Madhavapeddy from the University of Cambridge, behind many key outputs including OCaml, Docker, Xen, among others, ran…
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Top-20 Finalists in the AI for ALL challenge: India AI Summit
We are delighted that the CoRE stack was selected among the top-20 finalists in the AI for ALL challenge organized…
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More Participation, Less “AI”
Deeply reflective blog by Anuradha Ganapathy from her field visits to observe Commons Connect deployments with partners Foundation For Ecological…
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Solving Landscapes together: Reflections from the 2nd solvability workshop, Dec 2025
The second CoRE stack landscape solvability workshop held at IIT Delhi from Dec 15-17 brought together 80+ people from over…
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Tracker for protected areas
To accompany the CoRE stack innovation challenge, we have developed an app on Google Earth Engine which combines news articles on protected…
