SudMig
Sudan: Monitoring Migrant Movements Related to The 2023 Conflict
Team members: Noah Greupner, Stamatina Tounta
The SudMig project has been developed as part of the IP: SDI course of the Applied Geoinformatics Master’s programme in the winter term 2023/24
Course instructors: Manfred Mittlboeck, Eva-Maria Steinbacher
The main objective of the course was the development of a well-founded SDI (Spatial Data Infra-structure) strategy for the efficient and transparent gathering, processing, and sharing of the migration geodata and the effective visualiza-tion in an informative dashboard.
Project overview
The project aims to identify the movements of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) within Sudan using existing datasets that include statistics of the number of displaced people in Sudan between an origin and a destination state. The outcome of the project is interactive dashboard that provides spatiotemporal information about the current total number of IDPs, the temporal change of migration, and the direction and intensity of the movements (aggregated at level of federal states). The dashboard is based on an SDI that is described in the graph below. It starts with accessing statistical data of the IDPs and geocoding them using an additional dataset with the administrative boundaries of the states of Sudan. The data are then stored in PostGIS database and according metadata are also created. As a further step, the data are shared as web services through the ArcGIS environment and they are finally used to visualize and communicate the results through ArcGIS Insights.
Figure: SDI Architecture
Interactive dashboard
Click the image to open the dashboard
Detailed information about the project can be accessed through GitLab [link].
