Story Maps

Our solutions and services take complex, multiple layers of data, convert them into insight and intelligence, enabling decision makers to build on their knowledge.

We present our findings and analysis in many ways, including Storymaps.

Frozen to Flooded

Exploring the threats of Glacier Retreat and Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) in the Cordillera Blanca, Tropical Andes

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2025

After the Shocks Copy

We're revisiting the devastating 2023 earthquake in Afghanistan to demonstrate how how geospatial data is essential for understanding the impact and aftermath of such a tragic disaster.

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2024

Agricultural Revival in Afghanistan

Explore how this project aimed to enhance agricultural and economic stability in Kunduz Province by restoring water flow to farmland through data-driven site selection, community collaboration, and remote monitoring.

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2024

Changing the Rules of the Game

How the Taliban upended political and economic power in Afghanistan: The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 has reshaped the political and economic landscape in two contrasting provinces of Afghanistan: Nimroz and Samangan.

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2024

Satellites and Seeds

Explore how, with Esri technology and Alcis' support, the NGO Seeds for Development is embarking on a digital transformation to address food security challenges in vulnerable and hard to reach communities in northern Uganda.

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2023

Black Gold: The Illicit Charcoal Trade

In Northern Uganda, the illegal production of charcoal is driving the widespread burning of trees exacerbating the country's deforestation problem, leading to soil degradation, reduced biodiversity and other negative consequences.

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2023

Sea Level Rise in Timor-Leste

Research into the effect of rising sea levels in Timor-Leste using remote sensing to collect satellite imagery to analyse past changes and forecast future impacts, due to annual sea-level rise of 9mm compared to the global average of 3mm.

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2022

Holding Water to Ransom

The Kamal Khan Dam, on the border of Iran and Afghanistan, has been a source of disagreement and violence for years. Iran argues that it will limit its access to water. Afghanistan maintains that it has the right to use its water resources.

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2022

Methamphetamine Production in Afghanistan

Methamphetamine production in Afghanistan is moving towards using ephedra, a plant that is more abundant and easier to access than the chemicals used before. We shed light on the evolving drug trade in the region.

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2022

Darfur Violence Monitoring

Combining satellite imagery with proxy indicators such as burnt surfaces, population and settlement data, we provide invaluable insight into the spread of violence in the Darfur region.

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2022

Afghanistan Land Release Impact Assessment

This USAID-funded project in Afghanistan provided loans to individual farmers to develop their farms into commercial enterprises, to improve food security and increase small-scale farmers' income by improving their productivity and efficiency.

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2022

Agricultural Credit Enhancement - Part II

For more than 25 years farmers in Afghanistan had no access to credit. This USAID funded project set out to change that by providing loans to individual farmers so they could develop their farms into viable businesses.

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2021

ODI Revenue Mapping

Research using fieldwork and high-resolution satellite imagery to estimate and map taxes collected in Afghan conflict zones. The findings show how heavily they rely on taxes from legal goods trade and not just drug money.

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2021

NRC Drought Response

We conducted a geospatial analysis using NDVI to assess the devastating impact of drought in Afghanistan on people and their livelihoods. This allowed our client to better understand the situation and identify areas in need of urgent intervention.

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2021

Talc Mining

Narrating the changes to a talc mining value chain in Achin, Nangarhar over recent years and how improved road infrastructure and bridge construction has had a significant impact on the volume of product reaching local markets.

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2021

Trade War on Drugs

The growing political and commercial tension between the US and China has had wide-reaching consequences on the global economy. We researched how actions led to unintended consequences on seemingly unrelated events.

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2021

Opensource Data for SDGs

Open source data and GIS can help accelerate the SDGs by providing data for decision-making and tracking progress. GIS enables visualisation of data across different scales, allowing for more effective implementation of SDG initiatives.

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2021

Retreat from Kabul

In 1842, the British position in Afghanistan became precarious, and they had to retreat from Kabul. On the night of January 6th, the British forces left Kabul, leaving behind destruction and chaos. We have mapped the events that followed.

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2021

Syria Agriculture and Conflict

Years of conflict and drought have severely impacted agriculture in Syria, with noticeable effects on crop quality and availability. The relationship between food security, war, and drought is clearly evident in the country.

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2021

IDP Tent Counting

We used machine learning and geospatial analysis to count tents in IDP camps in Afghanistan. This helped our client understand how many people needed help and target aid effectively.

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2020

Keeping up with the Kuchis

Over 1.5 million nomadic Kuchis in Afghanistan face poverty and marginalisation. Alcis was tasked to find their migratory routes for an aid donor to provide support during their annual livestock mating season in October 2020.

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2020

Afghanistan Compound Analysis

We analysed the Alcis compound data for south west Afghanistan to compare 2014 and 2019 data and identify changes towards attaining the UN's Sustainable Development Goals SDG3, SDG9 and SDG10.

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2020

We are delighted that our Satellites and Seeds StoryMap was a Runner Up

in the Esri 2023 StoryMaps Competition.