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
Update, Oct 2026: All of these pipelines are now accessible to anyone via the CoRE Stack Tower Services. Check out…
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A Bottom-Up Approach to Identifying Ecological Restoration Sites with the CoRE Stack Toolkit
Authors: Apoorva Dewan, Ojasvi Bansal, Raman Kumar, and Aaditeshwar Seth Ecological restoration is a complex process that requires a deep…
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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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Do It Yourself LULC: grow your own land cover map
In earlier posts we wrote about finding sites for restoration, listening to them with bioacoustics recorders and mapping their trees…
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Ecological restoration toolkit: Mapping tree species from drone imagery
In earlier posts we wrote about identifying prospective sites for restoration and about listening to them with bioacoustics recorders. This…
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Launching CoRE stack Tower Services
We are excited to announce the CoRE Stack Tower services. Supported by Tower Research Capital, this is a tower of…
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Strengthening Community-Led Data Governance: Reflections from CoRE Stack’s Community of Practice
Sep 2026 As the CoRE Stack ecosystem grows, so does the importance of ensuring that data generated with and by…
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Reflections from IndiaFOSS 2026: Thoughts for the CoRE stack
by Aaditeshwar Seth September 2026 When Sai Rahul Poruri first met me some years ago and told me about FOSS…
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Know Your Landscape (KYL) Enhancements: Strengthening Landscape Intelligence for Better Planning
Know Your Landscape (KYL) Enhancements: Strengthening Landscape Intelligence for Better Planning September 2026 Natural Resource Management (NRM) planning increasingly requires…
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Mission Antyodaya 2020 Data now on KYL
What 6 Lakh Indian Villages Tell Us About Rural Development Amit Kumar, CoRE Stack; Ananya Singh, IIT Delhi Research supervision:…
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Front page coverage in Dainik Bhaskar!
We are excited that the use of Commons Connect by PRADAN in Jharkhand was covered on the front page of…
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Mapping Soil Health Across India at 30 m Resolution Using Machine Learning
Author: Ratinder Pal Singh, MTech student, IIT Delhi Soil health is central to sustainable agriculture, fertilizer planning, and long-term crop…
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On highways and backroads of AI, and Perspectives on Commons Connect
After the earlier excellent blog by Anuradha Ganapathy where she introduced the pithy statement of more participation and less AI…
