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…
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…
CoRE stack – technical manual v2
Over the last several months, we have added a number of new geospatial layers to the CoRE stack. In addition…
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…
Enhancing Water Security in Rural India with Digital Tools: Insights from Field Testing
Water security is a critical concern for rural India, particularly as climate change exacerbates water scarcity, impacting both livelihoods and…
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…
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…
IndiaSAT: Landuse Land LandCover Classification
Landscapes change in response to nature and human activities. Land use and land cover (LULC) classification is required for land…
CoRE Stack Geospatial Layers and Datasets
We had sent an update a few months back on our progress with putting together several novel geospatial layers through…
Empowering Communities through Data for Improved Socio-ecological Sustainability and Resilience
In a collaborative effort by Gram Vaani, Magasool, IIT Delhi, IIT Palakkad, FES, GIZ, SUPPORT, and 4S teams, a series…