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Alcis Story Maps

2025

Frozen to Flooded

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

2025
2024

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.

2024
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.

2024
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.

2024
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.

2023
2023

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.

2023
2022

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.

2022
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.

2022
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.

2022
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.

2022
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.

2022
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.

2021
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