GC11F:
Use of Earth Observations in Mitigating Major Environmental Challenges in Africa I
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Session ID#: 32542
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: Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Sean P Healey, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, United States, Phoebe Oduor, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya, Warren B. Cohen, US Forest Service Corvallis, Corvallis, OR, United States, Zhiqiang Yang, USDA Forest Service, Ogden, UT, United States, Edward Ouko, Regional Centre for Mapping Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, Noel Gorelick, Google, Mountian View, CA, United States and Sylvia Wilson, Wilpa Capacity Development, Reston, United States
Emil A. Cherrington1, Grégoire Vincent2, Nicolas Barbier3, Raphaël Pélissier4, Daniel Sabatier4 and Uta Berger5, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)AMAP, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, AMAP, Montpellier, France, (3)IRD Institute for Research and Development, AMAP, Marseille Cedex 02, France, (4)Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), Montpellier, France, (5)Technische Universität Dresden, Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Science, Dresden, Germany
Niall P Hanan1, Julius Anchang1, Amadou Moctar Dieye2, Kadidia Yero3 and Andrew T Tredennick4, (1)New Mexico State University, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, United States, (2)Centre de Suivi Ecologique, Dakar, Senegal, (3)AGRHYMET Regional Center, Niamey, Niger, (4)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
Patrick Kuburhanwa Lola Amani, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Lilian W. Ndungu1, Antony Oduya Ndubi1, Anastasia Mumbi Wahome2, Walter Lee Ellenburg3 and Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson4, (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, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
Gregory J Husak, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, William Turner, Hickory, NC, United States, Amy McNally, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, Shraddhanand Shukla, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Chris C Funk, U.S. Geological Survey EROS Center / FEWS NET, Sioux Falls, United States
Begum Rabeya Rushi, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States; NASA-SERVIR Science Co-ordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, Walter Lee Ellenburg, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Emily Caitlin Adams, NASA-SERVIR, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson, Regional Visualization and Monitoring System (SERVIR), Huntsville, AL, United States, Ashutosh S Limaye, ENSCO, Inc./NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Rodrigo Valdés-Pineda, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, Tirthankar Roy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States, Juan B Valdés, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Faith Mithieu, Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya and Steve Omondi, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya
John Steven Selker1, Nick Van De Giesen2, Frank O Annor3, Rebecca Hochreutener4 and Elizabeth Rae Jachens1, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, (3)TU Delft, Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, (4)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
