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Food Security monitoring in the SADC
region
• Data Sharing Initiatives at SADC
FANR
Blessing Siwela,
[email protected]
Regional Remote Sensing Unit
7th SAFNet Workshop, September 22-26, 2008, Caprivi,
Namibia
CRAM Workshop, 27-29 March 2007, Nairobi, Kenya
Outline
• About Regional Remote Sensing Unit
(RRSU)
• Overview of information management and
dissemination activities
– SADC GeoNetwork
– SADC AIMS Portal
SADC RRSU and Cooperating Partners:
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The SADC Regional Remote Sensing Unit (RRSU) is situated within the
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) Directorate at the
SADC Secretariat, Gaborone, Botswana
Operates under Agricultural Information Management Systems (AIMS)
programme
• Technical support and training.
• Emergency food supply assessments.
• Supply of satellite data.
• Technical support and training.
• Vulnerability assessment activities.
• Support to the Regional Disaster
Management Strategy.
• Supply of satellite data.
Main Objective of RRSU
Strengthen national and regional capabilities in the area of
Remote Sensing, Agrometeorology and GIS.
Support early warning for food security and natural resources
and disaster management.
Principal contact institutions:
•National Meteorological Services (NMSs).
•National Early Warning Units (NEWUs).
•National Disaster Management Units.
SADC RRSU: Operational Activities
Training of agro-meteorologists in the use of
satellite imagery products and GIS for early warning
for food security.
Monitoring crops, vegetation and weather
developments during the crop growing period using
satellite images and GIS techniques.
Developing and maintaining database of satellite
images, maps and associated data.
Remote Sensing datasets collected
and distributed
Imagery
Resolution
Main use(s)
METEOSAT
3 / 8 km
Monitoring rainfall, storms
Rainfall Estimates
8 km
Monitoring rainfall, floods
Water Requirements
Satisfaction Index (WRSI)
8 km
Crop condition
NDVI (LAC/GAC)
1.1 km / 8 km
Monitoring crops, vegetation
SPOT VEGETATION
1.1 km
Monitoring crops, vegetation
MODIS
250 m
Monitoring crops, vegetation
LANDSAT
30 m
Land cover
ASTER
15 m
Land cover, terrain
modelling, vegetation
RS Datasets and Early Warning Information flow
USGS/ FAO
FEWSNET
MSG
Receiver
E-mail / internet
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Outgoing: satellite-based information and
analysis
Website
RRSU Archive
Image Review /
analysis
Bulletins
Country Windows
E-mail
Countries
Information collected from Early
Warning network
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Ground-based information and analysis
• Rainfall performance, climate / weather outlooks
• Crop stages
• Crop and pasture condition
• Hydrological information
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Information exchange by e-mail, telephone
Information Dissemination
• A number of bulletins are produced to meet
information requirements, including:
– Regular agro-meteorological updates at 10-day and monthly
intervals (rainfall, vegetation and crop monitoring
information)
– Monthly Food Security bulletins
– Ad-hoc bulletins (floods, droughts, weather hazards)
• E-mail (distribution lists – NGOs, government departments,
media houses, academia, etc)
• Websites
– www.sadc.int/fanr/aims
– www.sadc.int/geonetwork/
GeoNetwork
• A web based open-source metadata catalogue
application
• ISO19115/19139 Geographic Metadata standards
• GeoNetwork integrates
– Search functions
– Administrative functions
– Data sharing - distribution and publication
• Developed by UN's FAO, WFP and UNEP to promote
data sharing
GeoNetwork Metadata Catalog
• Spatial data management
• Share Common Base Maps
• Facilitate Access
• Share Information Quicker among Agencies
• Know the Data Source, Maintainer, Owner
• Provide Information on Quality, Validity etc…
• Maintain Institutional Memory (Archive)
What can you do with GeoNetwork
Metadata Catalog?
• Describe your data
What can you do with GeoNetwork
Metadata Catalog?
• Describe your data >
• How can the data be obtained?
• What is the data quality?
What can you do with GeoNetwork
Metadata Catalog?
• Search for available data
How can you obtain and use GeoNetwork
Metadata Catalog?
• Download from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/geonetwork
• Install for Intranet or internet access
• Become a user on one of the online GeoNetwork
nodes
• URL: www.sadc.int/geonetwork/
• Installed at SADC with support from Global Monitoring
for Food Security (GMFS) project support
• Dozens of users from around the region
• Metadata harvesting from other GeoNetwork nodes
• Maintained by RRSU
How can you get involved?
• For participation on the SADC GeoNetwork portal,
write to SADC RRSU, [email protected],
[email protected]
• RRSU can provide support with use of the
GeoNetwork node, training in development of
metadata, etc
SADC AIMS Portal
• Development objectives of AIMS:
– Integrate and rationalise the various information systems within
the FANR into an effective, efficient and coherent system in
support of revitalising agricultural growth, enhancing food
security and promoting rural development in the region.
• Strategic goals:
– To provide support and input into the monitoring and evaluation
system of the SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development
Plan RISDP;
– To meet the recommendation of the Dar-es-Salaam Declaration
on Agriculture and Food Security with regard to a Regional
Integrated Agricultural Information System.
• Web Portal – http://aims.sadc.int
SADC AIMS Portal
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Web pages creation and editing via CMS (Django)
User Administration
Customised Search engine
News / events list and Aggregation (of most recent news)
E-Frame (web frame of other sites into AIMS)
RSS feeds
Standards based Web Mapping tools
Non spatial library
Discussion forum, D-groups
E-learning with Moodle
Discussion group
combined with e-mail
list server
http://gisportal.sadc.int
- GIS data for 4 pilot
countries [Bw, Na, Sz, Za]
Who contributes?
SADC PRINT Livestock Information Management
System (LIMS);
Regional Early Warning System for Food Security
(REWS-FS)
Regional Remote Sensing Project; (RRSU)
Information Core in Southern Africa Migratory Pests
(ICOSAMP);
SADC Seed Security Network Project (SSSN);
Regional Vulnerability Analytical Information
System; (RVAA)
Regional Fisheries Information Systems; (RFIS)
Regional Information & Management Programme for
Agricultural Research and Training; and
(ICART- 9th EDF)
Land & Water Management Information System
(L&WMIS-8th EDF)
Drought Monitoring System (DMS)
SADC Plant Genetic Resources Information System
(SPGRIS)
Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge
Support System for Southern Africa
(ReSAAKS-SA)
Contacts
• RRSU Coordinator
– Dr. Kennedy Masamvu
– [email protected]
• Websites: http://www.sadc.int (/fanr/aims/rrsu)
Thank You