RCMRD; The Role!

1ByronAnangwe
Product Development Officer - RCMRD
banangwe@rcmrd.org
2Edward Lodenyo
IT & Comm. Specialist – SERVIR/RCMRD
elodenyo@rcmrd.org

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RCMRD plays significant role in:

•Promotion, Awareness & Distribution of Satellite Imagery

•Project Implementation & Capacity Building

•Formulation of data policies and infrastructure

•Acquisition of appropriate satellite data and GIS software

+ equipment

•Creation of national and regional partnerships

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Agri-activities at the RCMRD

PAST ACTIVITIES

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Earliest Activities at the RCMRD

Time Activity

1988 - 1993 Qualitative analysis of CCD for food security assessment

In the IGAD countries. Funded by the Japanese Govt.
through FAO in the project GCPS/RAF/231/PJN.

1996 - 1997 Qualitative analysis of CCD and NDVI in the IGAD countries
and Rwanda and Burundi. Funded by the French Govt.
through FAO in the project GCP/RAF/310/FRA

1995 - 2000 Qualitative end of season crop yield forecasting and

environmental analysis in the IGAD countries using ET
data derived from Meteosat satellite. Co-executed by
RCMRD and EARS and funded by the Dutch Govt. In
the REFEWS Project.

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Past Activities………. cont
• Food Security and environmental monitoring
(USGS/Fewsnet, ICPAC, DLCO, WFP, ILRI, LEWIS, GMFS)

• DRASTIC Modeling, Flood Modeling and Prediction (USGS)

• Disease Modeling and Prediction

– Rift Valley Fever (WRI, AU-IBAR, UoN, USGS)
- Mapping of HIV/AIDS on the Mombasa – Kampala highway (Manitoba
University, UoN)

• Land Suitability, Land degradation mapping and monitoring

- Deforestation (Mau Forest)
- Land use / Land cover change (Kordofan Region, South Sudan)
- Uganda

• Capacity building
- Training in the use of modern Geo-information technologies in early warning & food
security, disease mapping, land degradation, disaster risk management

• Monitoring urban sprawl (Informal settlements)

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Predicting Flooding: Nzoia River Basin

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Predicting Disease Outbreaks: Rift Valley Fever in GHA

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PRESENT ACTIVITIES

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Tse-Tse Mapping, Swaziland

LAST WORDS
• There is a rapidly growing demand for efficient access
to fundamental spatial data

• There are a number of good examples of public and

private spatial data clearinghouses around the world

• A national clearinghouse will need to involve both

public and private sectors, and will need to link to
regional and global implementations

• There is need for technologists to stop talking to

themselves and understand the speech of the policy
makers/citizenry
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Agriculture Statistics - USGS/RLCM

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Mapping of Gums & Resins

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Mapping of Gums & Resins………… cont

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Warranting mention

- EU Funded GMFS
- SSWICH
- Gates Funded Inventory on Use of RS for Agriculture
Statistics
- Coffee Mapping towards appellation & marketing

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FUTURE ACTIVITIES

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AIM
To improve decision making processes in environmental resource and
environmental risk management based on EO Technologies

REGIONAL THEMATIC ACTION

REC IGAD
Land Degradation Mitigation & Natural Habitat Conservation (RIC
ICPAC)

REC SADC
Agricultural & Environmental Resource Management (RIC BDMS)

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Data access through Eumetcast and Internet

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AMESD Value Chain

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GARNET-E/EU-GMES

Emergency Response / Risk Reduction

• Knowledge/Information Exchange (use of disaster charter)

• Service Development between European and African Service

Providers

• Projects identified
• Reference mapping
• Rapid mapping
• Multi Risk Mapping
• Camp mapping for displaced persons

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SERVIR Africa Programme at
RCMRD

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Addressing GEOSS

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 SERVIR
INTERACTIVE
DSS & Tools

Water & Energy

Balance

Climate Change Sustainable

Tourism
Weather Forest Fires
Natural Disasters Land Use and
Agriculture SERVIR-Africa
Earth Observation, Monitoring, &
Biodiversity IWRM/ICZM
Visualization System
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SERVIR Platform: User Perspective
Priorities for FY10
Share
• Metadata authoring tools
• Community building tools
• Community knowledge base
• Feedback mechanisms
• Mitigating barriers to sharing
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Mapping of / network performance
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Discover
• Managed knowledge base
• Catalog services
• Directory services
• Browse & search fxns
Acquire
• Notification services
• Ground receiving station
• Data acquisition services
Web portal
Event monitoring tools • Data processing services
• Data archive
Use / Create • Geodata services
• Visualization tools
• Analysis (services & tools)
• Forecast/scenario creation
• Support for interoperability
• Support for product use
Operations management Classification schemes
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Predicting Flooding: Nzoia River Basin

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PRODUCTS / OUTPUTS
Daily Flood Potential Modeling
http://174.123.137.42/africa

Daily Flood Potential Map

Flood Potential Broadcast on Google Earth

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Second Phase
Develop additional data and products to address
GEOSS societal benefit areas –
agriculture, biodiversity, climate, disasters, ecosystems, energy,
health, water, weather:

• ‘volunteer’ data generation

• community environmental monitoring
• sensor-web applications
• thunderstorm early warning
• coral reef monitoring
• mobile applications (interface with cell phones)

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Final Remarks
Learn Policy/Political lingua

• Large amount of spatial data is available.

• Accuracy!@#$%^&

• Appropriate technologies use

• Knowledge of quality, concepts is essential to turn data into

information.

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Byron A.Centre
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Product Development
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