MED Consortium — EO Health Surveillance Platform
Using Earth Observation data to monitor water-borne pathogens and non-communicable disease risk factors across Southern Africa.
Milestone 1 (System Design & Data Architecture) is in progress: 1 November 2025 – 16 March 2026.
What is this platform?
The MED Consortium platform integrates satellite Earth Observation (EO) imagery with epidemiological and public health datasets to generate near-real-time risk maps for two disease categories:
| Module | Focus | Geography |
|---|---|---|
| Malaria Risk | Water-borne vector habitat, soil moisture, surface temperature | Limpopo Province (ward level) |
| NCD Risk | Air quality, heat stress, land-cover, lifestyle factors | Southern Africa (country → province → municipality) |
Data is sourced from Google Earth Engine and processed through a six-stage automated pipeline before being surfaced on the interactive dashboard.
Key capabilities
- 🛰️ Automated EO data ingestion — Sentinel-2/3, Landsat 8/9, MODIS via GEE
- 🗺️ Interactive Leaflet maps with ward-level drill-down and time sliders (Jan 2025 – Jan 2026)
- 📈 Dynamic risk scoring — composite index from soil moisture, LST, NDWI, population density
- 🔔 Risk-level filtering — High / Moderate / Low with popup summaries
- 📅 13-month temporal coverage — monthly snapshots for trend analysis
- 🏥 Partner-validated outputs for UCT, CSIR, NICD and DoH
Architecture in brief
Data Sources → Ingestion → Pre-process & QA → Feature Extraction
→ Spatial-Temporal Fusion → Risk Modelling → Dashboard Output
See System Architecture and EO Data Pipeline for full detail.
Live platform
The platform is deployed on AWS Amplify:
👉 https://main.d1jko0jkg4m7f.amplifyapp.com/
Best experienced on desktop. Mobile (portrait) support is in active development.
Project context
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Funder | TuksNovation / NeoFrontiers |
| Period | 1 November 2025 – 31 October 2026 |
| Total budget | R 1,000,000 |
| Director | Kagisho Montjane |
| Validation partners | UCT · CSIR · NICD · DoH |