GC51L:
Applications of Earth Observations for Addressing Environmental and Development Challenges in Africa Posters


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Session ID#: 51008

Session Description:
Recurring extreme events across Africa, in the form of droughts, fires, storms, and their associated floods and landslides, have fueled food insecurity, destroyed critical infrastructure, caused loss of human lives and suffering, and degraded environmental quality and services. Nevertheless, in a world of increasing scientific capabilities, such phenomena have both been observed by orbiting environmental satellites and simulated using a wide range of physical models. These have contributed to a growing body of data, tools, products, and services available to African decision-makers for addressing such challenges. In that context, the purpose of this session is thus to examine the impacts of recent Earth observation-related research efforts which help to address development challenges and promote societal benefit across the continent. Submissions are welcome from researchers and practitioners, focusing on how Earth observation data are and can be used to address environmental and development challenges in Africa.
Primary Convener:  Emil A. Cherrington, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA-USAID SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, United States
Conveners:  Emily Caitlin Adams, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, 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
Primary Liaison:  Emil A. Cherrington, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA-USAID SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, United States
Chairs:  Emil A. Cherrington, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Emily Caitlin Adams, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Emil A. Cherrington, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
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:

Building Effective Partnerships in Delivery of Geo-Information Services for Societal Benefit. (393060)
Chihenyo Mvoyi Kangara1, Kenneth Kasera2, Kenneth Mubea3, Anastasia Mumbi Wahome4 and Robinson M Mugo4, (1)US Agency for International Development, Falls Church, VA, United States, (2)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, SERVIR, Nairobi, Kenya, (3)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (4)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya
Open Source Geospatial Platform to Tackle Environmental and Development Challenges (440298)
Hamed Alemohammad, Radiant Earth Foundation, Washington, United States
Addressing Drought Emergencies in the Heat of the Moment: A Reduced Latency MODIS NDVI Product to Support Index-based Livestock Insurance in Kenya (444851)
Eric L McGregor1, Emily Caitlin Adams2, Ashutosh S Limaye3, Eric Ross Anderson1, Walter Lee Ellenburg II2, Kel Nicolas Markert2, Francisco Jose Delgado4, William Ashmall5, Lilian W. Ndungu6, Stephen SANDE Ngondi6, Steve Omondi6, Maungu Oware6, Anastasia Mumbi Wahome7 and Robinson M Mugo7, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)USRA, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, United States, (5)USRA, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (7)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya
Predicting yield outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa using satellite observations to infer temperature, soil moisture, and yield (447669)
Victor Ongoma, South Eastern Kenya University, Department of Meteorology, Nairobi Gpo, Kenya, Angela Jean Rigden, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Emmanuel Akyeampong, Harvard University, Department of African and African American Studies, Cambridge, MA, United States, Natesh Pillai, Harvard University, Department of Statistics, Cambridge, MA, United States and Peter J Huybers, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Agricultural Drought Monitoring with Remote Sensing Data over the Greater Horn of Africa; a Case of Somalia (464641)
Joshua Ndiwa Ngaina, South Eastern Kenya University, Meteorology, Kitui, Kenya, Bethwel Kipkoech Mutai, University of Nairobi, Earth and Climate Sciences, Nairobi, Kenya and Alex K Koton, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Somalia Water and Land Information Mangement Project, Mogadishu, Somalia
The CHIRPS-GEFS Precipitation Dataset for Improved Food Security Forecasts and Analysis in Africa. (422881)
Martin Francis Landsfeld1, Christopher Funk2, Laura Harrison3, William Turner4, Gregory J Husak3 and Shraddhanand Shukla5, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Group, Santa Barbara, United States, (2)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (5)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, United States
A Method for Producing High Resolution Land Cover Maps of West Africa (451010)
Stephen Van Gordon1, Mollie M. Van Gordon1, Alfari Issifou2, Bako Mamane3, Abdou Ali3, G Gray Tappan4, Annika Min1, Jack Sullivan1 and Zac Weiner1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Agriculture, Hydrology and Meteorology Regional Center (AGHRYMET), Niamey, Niger, (3)AGRHYMET Regional Center, Niamey, Niger, (4)USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
Towards Continuous Forest Degradation Monitoring in Data-Scarce Regions of Tropical West Africa (413766)
Francis K. Dwomoh, University of Oklahoma, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States, Michael C Wimberly, University of Oklahoma, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, United States, Izaya Numata, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States and Foster Kwame Mensah, Center for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS), University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
MAPPING TREE COVER DENSITY TO ASSESS WOODLAND DEGRADATION BY CHARCOAL PRODUCTION IN THE SAVANNA REGION OF GHANA (363552)
Foster Kwame Mensah1, Stella Ofori-Ampofo1, Michael C Wimberly2 and Izaya Numata3, (1)Center for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS), University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana, (2)University of Oklahoma, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, United States, (3)South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States
Real-time monitoring of ephemeral water bodies using earth observation data in the Ferlo (Senegal) (383627)
Mamadou Adama Sarr1, Kel Markert2, Abdoul A Diouf3, Muench E Rebekke2, Emil A Cherrington4 and Khady Y Sarr5, (1)Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE), Dakar, Senegal, (2)Researcher, Huntsville, United States, (3)Centre de Suivi Ecologique, Dakar, Senegal, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States, (5)Researcher, Dakar, Senegal

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