GC13I:
Use of Earth Observations in Mitigating Major Environmental Challenges in Africa II Posters

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Session ID#: 26029

Session Description:
Severe droughts and floods across Africa have ruined harvests, livelihoods, and have fueled food insecurity; increasing the complexity of resource allocation and other environmental decision making in the African continent. This session focuses on basic and applied research efforts, including capacity building, in the African continent that incorporate Earth observations to generate tools, products, and services, to support the environmental decision making by governmental institutions, non-governmental agencies, and the general public. The major challenges facing the region are particularly acute in food security and agriculture, water resources management, disaster risk reduction, and rapidly changing land use and ecosystems. Submissions are welcome from researchers and practitioners focusing on addressing these societal challenges for the African continent.
Primary Convener:  Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States
Conveners:  Emil A. Cherrington, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Robinson M Mugo, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya and Alfari Issifou, Agriculture, Hydrology and Meteorology Regional Center (AGHRYMET), Niamey, Niger
Chairs:  Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science, Huntsville, AL, United States and Emil A. Cherrington, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Emil A. Cherrington, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

CITIZEN SCIENCE AND OPEN DATA: A MODEL FOR INVASIVE ALIEN PLANT SPECIES IN KENYA’S NORTHERN RANGELANDS (292379)
Edward Ouko1, Steve Omondi1, Robinson M Mugo2, Hussein Farah1, Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson3 and Emily Caitlin Adams4, (1)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (2)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)NASA-SERVIR, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States
Diagnosis of vegetation recovery within herbaceous sub-systems in the West African Sahel Region (295041)
Julius Anchang, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Niall P Hanan, New Mexico State University, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, United States, Lara Prihodko, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Department of Animal and Range Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Sanath Sathyachandran Kumar, PhD, ASRC Federal InuTeq, USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Wenjie Ji, New Mexico State University, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States and Christopher Wade Ross, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Utility of Mobile phones to support In-situ data collection for Land Cover Mapping (286036)
Phoebe Oduor1, Steve Omondi2, Anastasia Mumbi Wahome1, Robinson M Mugo1 and Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson3, (1)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya, (2)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (3)Regional Visualization and Monitoring System (SERVIR), Huntsville, AL, United States
Use of GIS-Based Sampling to Inform Food Security Assessments and Decision Making in Kenya (288097)
Antony Oduya Ndubi1, Lilian W. Ndungu1, Anastasia Mumbi Wahome2, Robinson M Mugo2 and Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson3, (1)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (2)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
Designing a Frost Forecasting Service for Small Scale Tea Farmers in East Africa (240232)
Emily Caitlin Adams1,2, James Wanjohi Nyaga3, Walter Lee Ellenburg4, Ashutosh S Limaye5, Robinson M Mugo3, Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson6, Daniel Irwin7, Jonathan Case5, Susan Malaso8 and Absae Sedah9, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, United States, (2)NASA-SERVIR, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya, (4)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)ENSCO, Inc./NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States, (7)NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States, (8)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, RS, Nairobi, Kenya, (9)Kenya Meterological Department County Kericho, Kericho, Kenya
Drought in West Africa: How CHIRPS and Reference Evapotranspiration can be used for Index Insurance in a Non-Stationary Setting (283262)
S Lucille Lucille Blakeley1, Gregory J Husak2, Laura Harrison3, Chris C Funk4, Daniel E Osgood5 and Pete Peterson3, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)USGS, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey EROS Center / FEWS NET, Sioux Falls, United States, (5)Columbia University of New York, International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Palisades, NY, United States
An Assessment of Surface Water Detection Algorithms for the Tahoua Region, Niger (286948)
Kelsey E. Herndon1,2, Rebekke Muench1,3, Emil A. Cherrington1,4 and Robert Griffin5, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, United States, (3)SERVIR NASA Science Coordination Office, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA-USAID SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, United States, (5)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Optimizing Placement of Weather Stations: Exploring Objective Functions of Meaningful Combinations of Multiple Weather Variables (260746)
Amelia Snyder, United States Geological Survey, Washington, D.C., United States, Thomas Dietterich, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States and John Steven Selker, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States

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