Primary Conveners: Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners: Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, Tsegaye Tadesse, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States and Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States
Chairs: Charles M Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Tsegaye Tadesse, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
13:55
Assessing Hydro-Ecological Vulnerability from Space (84414)
Dimitrios Stampoulis1, Konstantinos Andreadis1, Stephanie L Granger1, Joshua B Fisher2, Francis J Turk1, Ali Behrangi1, Narendra N Das1 and Amor Ines3, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Michigan State University, Departments of Plant, Soil and Micriobial Sciences, and Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States
14:10
Integrating Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing and In-situ Measurements for Africa Drought Monitoring and Food Security Assessment (82608)
Xianjun Hao1, John J Qu1, Raymond P. Motha1, Robert Stefanski2 and Johan Malherbe3, (1)George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)World Meteorological Organization, Agricultural Meteorology Division, Geneva, Switzerland, (3)Agriculture Research Council, Agrometeorology Division, Pretoria, South Africa
14:40
Translating the potential of hydrological forecasts into improved decision making in African regions (Invited) (70663)
Justin Sheffield1, Xiaogang He1, Niko Wanders2, Eric F Wood1, Abdou Ali3, Luke Olang4, Lyndon D Estes1 and Kelly K Caylor1, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)AGRHYMET Regional Center, Niamey, Niger, (4)ICPAC, Nairobi, Kenya
14:55
BUILDING A FRAMEWORK IN IMPROVING DROUGHT MONITORING AND EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS IN AFRICA (58227)
Tsegaye Tadesse1, Nicole Wall2, Tonya Haigh1, Andualem Shimelis Shiferaw2, Shimelis Beyene3, Getachew Berhan Demisse3, Ben Zaitchik4 and NASA GHA Project Team, (1)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (3)Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (4)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
