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GUARDIANS OF
THE MINING BELT.

SankofaWatch leverages orbital surveillance and high-fidelity neural networks to detect illegal galamsey operations in real-time — protecting Ghana's forests, rivers, and communities.

Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi — It is not wrong to go back for what you forgot
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FPN-ResNet50 HLS Landsat/Sentinel-2 97.9% accuracy 6-band multispectral PostGIS · Celery · Django
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Live System Telemetry

Total Illegal Area Detected

277 hectares
PEAK

Illegal Sites Confirmed

70

1 alerts resolved

Ghana Grid Coverage

0%

Completed Scans

8

Regions Monitored

16

Total Detections

70

Model Precision

73.1%
System Architecture

THE DETECTION PIPELINE.

Our multi-layered approach ensures no environmental disturbance goes undetected — from raw satellite data to actionable field intelligence.

01

Data Acquisition

Ingesting multi-spectral HLS imagery from Landsat-9 and Sentinel-2 constellations. Scenes are cloud-filtered and normalised before inference.

QUERY: hls_assets WHERE cloud_cover < 10
02

Neural Analysis

FPN-ResNet50 CNN identifies patterns of canopy loss, sedimentation, and surface disturbance at 30m resolution across the Ghana mining belt.

EXEC: fpn_resnet50_inference_v1
03

Stakeholder Alert

Verified threats are immediately dispatched to EPA, Forestry Commission, and regional agencies via encrypted notification channels.

STATUS: alert_dispatched_encrypted
Field Operations

IMPACT STUDIES

Satellite detection
Illegal
Detected 03 Apr 2026

Amansie Central District Assembly

Illegal mining activity detected by the SankofaWatch neural network within the administrative district zone.

Affected Area
55.9 Ha
Confidence
93%
Satellite detection
Illegal
Detected 03 Apr 2026

Prestea-huni Valley Municipal Assembly

Illegal mining activity detected by the SankofaWatch neural network within the administrative district zone.

Affected Area
37.6 Ha
Confidence
87%
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