Overview

The ClimCam project is a unique opportunity offered by the UNOOSA & Airbus to install the first Camera system equipped with a Machine learning algorithm onboard the international space station. This project will have a significant impact on the monitoring of climate change impacts on Eastern Africa. We realize that Climate change is having a growing impact on Africa, especially in the most vulnerable hardest, and contributing to food insecurity, and stress on water resources in east Africa as well. Having an imaging system at ISS allows us to monitor and see that effect in our home countries. We do realize the challenge of developing such a device to operate onboard the ISS with very critical and challenging design constraints. Egypt, Kenya, and Uganda are collaborating together for the success of this project. This project represents the first international cooperation between the three African countries in a consolidated consortium to face one of the most challenging threats the region ever faced.