Infrastructure for accessing and processing data AGRHYMET Regional Centre www.agrhymet.ne BAKO Mamane AGRHYMET/SERVIR WA m.bako@agrhymet.ne 06/14/2017, Sunyani

AGRHYMET/CILSS AGRHYMET: Specialized institution of CILSS (Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel ) 13 member states Activities cover 17 countries (CILSS/ECOWAS) Over 40 years of experience Bénin Burkina Faso Cap Vert Côte d’Ivoire Gambie Guinée Guinée Bissau Mali Mauritanie Niger Sénégal Tchad Togo

Mandate/Activities Activities Mandates : (i) Food Security, (ii) Natural Resources Management for a new ecological balance in the Sahel  Lesson learnt: Use of EO is a must for AGRHYMET  Activities Collect and analyze biophysical & socio-economic data; Develop tools and methods to monitor environmental dynamics and food insecurity; Distribute information to support decision making: seasonal forecast, early warning and Natural Resources Management; Train, transfer tools, methods and knowledge to national institutions.

Training E-learning 4 specializations 5 Masters degrees More than 10,000 technicians and engineers trained since 1974 Formal training recognized by CAMES 4 specializations Hydrology Agrometeorology Instrument and computer science Crop protection 5 Masters degrees Sustainable Land Management Climate Change Sustainable Development Integrated Environmental and Water Resource Management Food Security Sustainable Protection of Crops and Environment Pastoralism E-learning Development of a pilot training module for on-line estimating of carbon levels

Data METEOSAT in1989 MSG in 2004 HRPT/NOAA in1990 SPOT VEGETATION (1999) VGT4AFRICA ( 2005) MODIS LANDSAT SPOT Photo CORONA SRTM RADAR Ground Data

Products Imagery based maps (Modis, Spot, MSG, Landsat, Sentinel, TAMSAT,…); Climate monitoring : Rainfall, Surface Temperature Environmental monitoring : Surface water, wild fires, etc. Rangeland resources monitoring : herbaceous biomass , pasture condition, vegetation index, etc. Agriculture monitoring : water requirement satisfaction of crops , yield forecast, expected yield anomaly ( 5 last years average), Natural Resources Management: LULC 1974, 2000 and 2013 Agro-hydro-climatic seasonal forecast in both costal area and sudano-sahelian Africa ; Harmonized framework for identification and analyzing of area and populations with food insecurity ; Decadal and Monthly Bulletins of rain-season crop condition in the Sahel; Regional System for Prevention and Management of Food Crises in Sahel and West Africa (PREGEC).

Data center Over 20 servers and racks system for data processing and storage 4 computer labs for training Access: ftp, http://cradata.agrhymet.ne http://41.138.51.74:5010/EMMA/emma ftp:ftp://nouakchott.agrhymet.ne : @agrhymetinfos

Data center PUMA, AMESD, MESA, Satellite Data Acquisition System (Eumetcast) PUMA, AMESD, MESA, Landsat, Modis, FewsNet Environmental Station PUMA System Installation and Management of stations (PUMA and eStation) in the 17 CILSS/ECOWAS countries

Platforms Platforms for satellite data processing and dissemination : Data library from IRI (University of Colombia) Hydrology Thematic Exploitation platform GeonetCast - AGRHYMET Environmental station Regional Database Management System

Perspectives and challenges Consolidate ongoing initiatives Join AfriGEOSS community in 2017 and share some resources in the GEOSS portal Take advantage of NASA/USAID collaboration through SERVIR/ WA, Satellite and Weather Information for Disaster Resilience in Africa (SAWIDRA) , PUMA-AMESD-MESA - GMES& Africa Call Better Internet Bandwidth subscription and Management Capacity building in cloud computing Promote the merging approach (RFE) enhance model outputs

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