Mission of KAJO Services

KAJO GEO Services

Our mission is to bridge science with cutting-edge technology in order to distill actionable insight from large quantities of various types of data.

We challenge combining traditional tools and methods into new innovative solutions.

KAJO s.r.o. is agile consultancy based in Slovakia. KAJO was founded in 2011 and since then has developed into a respected organization with many international activities. Our team consists of environmental and risk analysts, geographer, communication expert, computer and data scientists and web & graphic designers.

Expertise and services

We offer a diverse range of environmental modelling, web-gis and ICT services.
Social media analytics for crisis management.
Citizen science, volunteer geographic information and open data.
Geo-services, geospatial data management, harmonization, standardization and interoperability.
Geospatial visualization and analytics, web-gis, desktop gis.
Risk Modeling, Risk assessment, communication, risk indicators, exposure and vulnerability assessment.
Text-mining and natural language processing.
Machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Big-data, Data mining, data analytics, knowledge extraction and sense making, data visualization.

Our main activities

Disaster Risk Management

Early Warning Systems

KAJO´s expertise covers development of customer driven applications for the analysis and interpretation of early warning systems (European and global), focusing specifically on probabilistic forecasts and impact based forecasting. We provide in-house deep scientific and technical knowledge of the EU Copernicus Early Warning Services, including their technical implementation.  We also have a very strong background in risk modeling and communication and impact based forecasting. We are actively involved in exploitation of the volunteer geographic information and Copernicus data in Disaster Risk Management.

Risk Communication and Awareness

KAJO is particularly active in exploring innovative paths for communicating information related to natural disasters. It started developing serious and table-top games in order to raise awareness about risk prevention and reach people outside of usual scientific communication channels. For instance, KAJO started collaborations with local schools to develop activities regarding mitigating and adaptive measures to climate change.

Social Media For Disaster Risk management

KAJO is employing the cutting-edge advancements in both, machine learning & language processing and early warning systems to develop tools and services for real time monitoring of social networks for information related to natural disasters in order to assist the responders in all phases of the risk management cycle. We couple early warning systems and social media monitoring to improve abilities to detect events. KAJO developed text mining, language processing and machine learning algorithms to monitor disasters from social media and mainstream news  to fill the gap between Early Warning Systems and traditional observations to improve our rapid mapping and impact assessment products. KAJO has developed in-house services for text filtering, sense making and aggregation techniques that are designed to distil valid information from the big data posted on social media and provide our customers with tailored data feeds.

Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science

Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science

KAJO is running crowdsourcing and citizen science projects to collect observations about extreme weather events including their impact, existing adaptation measures to mitigate risk associated with the extreme events. Crowdsourcing and citizen science is also used to gather knowledge to map critical infrastructure exposed to different hazards and assist in risk modeling and assessment.

WebGIS

KAJO’s core activity includes also development of customer driven Web-GIS applications. We offer advanced tools for geographic data management (e.g. CKAN, Geonode, MapStore), providing support in data/metadata harmonization, standardization, discoverability and interoperability as well as development of robust online platforms for visualisation and spatial analytics of geographic information.

Text Mining

KAJO develops customer driven applications for scraping large amounts of text from public sources (e.g. Eurlex) and domain specific language models to be used in different domains (e.g. EU policy, disaster risk, tourism). KAJO has successfully applied these text-mining tools and services in various domains ranging from disaster monitoring, impact assessment, innovation and emerging technology mapping, spatial data enrichment and policy making.

ICT/Web Design/Data management & Analytics

KAJO provides ICT consultancy in implementation of above mentioned systems and tools. We also provide consultancy in customization and tailoring platforms for big-data analytics and visualization (e.g. ElasticSearch).

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simON

Group of students from the Technical University of Kosice in close collaboration with the scientific and technical team of the slovak innovative company KAJO and…

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CLIMAAX

CLIMATE RISK ASSESSMENTS FOR EVERY EUROPEAN REGION. CLIMAAX (CLIMAte risk and vulnerability Assessment framework and toolboX) will provide financial, analytical, and practical support to improve…

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TRIGGER

SoluTions foR mItiGatinG climate-induced hEalth thReats. The objective and ambition of TRIGGER are to deepen current understanding of the complex linkage between climate (namely meteorological…

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CITYTHON 2022

Citython is an event that analyses mobility challenges faced by cities, where multi-disciplinary teams of students and professionals from different backgrounds and expertise (architecture, urban…

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I-CHANGE

Citizen Actions on Climate Change and Environment I-CHANGE is an Innovation Action project which has started in November 2021 and is running over years. Our…

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Check out our projects

Anywhere

The ultimate objective of ANYWHERE is to empower exposed responder institutions and citizens to enhance their anticipation and pro-active capacity of response to face extreme…

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Operandum

OPEn-air laboRAtories for Nature baseD solUtions to Manage environmental risks Severe hydro-meteorological phenomena are having a high impact in European territories and are of global…

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E2mc

E2mC (Evolution of Emergency Copernicus services) project aims at demonstrating the technical and operational feasibility of the integration of social media analysis and crowd-sourced information…

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GlobalFloodWatch

Real time floods monitoring at the global scale based on the flood signal derived from the social media. We are using trained multi-lingual classifier to…

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Our key personnel

Milan Kalas

Graduated as civil engineer, with a PhD degree in Hydrology and Water Management. Since 2003, he is a member of the core team developing the European and Global Flood Awareness System at the Joint Research Centre of the EC.

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Joy Ommer

Has a master degree in Disaster Management & Sustainable Development with the dissertation on Children’s Risk Perception and Hazard Knowledge Acquisition.

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Saša Vranić

Holds PhD degree in domain of geospatial data management from Faculty of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

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Milan Kalas sr.

Is an economist, with a master’s degree from Economical University in Bratislava. He has developed outstanding skills in economic statistics and modeling.

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Eva Medvedova

Graduated in Social pedagogy at Faculty of Education, Matej Bell University, Slovakia. Eva has strong background in social sciences and communication.

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Miroslav (Miro) Škrkoň

Developer, graduated in 2006 University of Žilina, Faculty of Management Science and Informatics – department of Information and Security Systems. After school he worked four years as developer on framework in .net technology.

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Barbara Vukovac

Graduated in 2021 at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics (Information Technology in Business Application). Attended “Web design” and “Front-End developer” program at Algebra School (higher education institution).

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Martin Kubáň

A hydrologist with a Ph.D. degree in water resources management from the department of Land and Water resources management at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.

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Vladimir Ďurajka

Vladimir Ďurajka is self-taught graphic designer. For twelve years he worked in the top Slovak advertising agency Istropolitana Ogilvy in the position  of senior art director for the brands such as Slovak Telekom, Peugeot, etc.

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Dmytro Shchurov

Dmytro Shchurov

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Milica Aleksic

Milica Aleksic

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Peter Beno

Peter Beno

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Miloslav Michalko

Miloslav Michalko

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Jana Michalková

Jana Michalková

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Adam Kolář

Adam Kolář

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Contact Info

Sládkovičova 228/8, 014 01 Bytča, Slovakia

INT.: +39 3488 124 907 / +39 3200 876 274
SK: +421 903 511 955 / +421 911 706276
info@kajoservices.com

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