Drought and Flood Mitigation Service (DFMS)
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Description
droughts and poor rainy seasons as well as having to deal with heavy downpours causing flooding of their lands. The intensity and length of the dry seasons as well as the timing and intensity of the rainy seasons are becoming more and more unpredictable. Although improvements in weather forecasting are being made, the situation in Uganda is that reliable and actionable weather and crop data are still often not available and of varying quality, contributing to underperforming agricultural production and food insecurity. Whilst in the coming years capacity building to achieve a truly sustainable solution will continue, DFMS will provide Uganda’s decisionmakers access to reliable and actionable information now. DFMS is a suite of information products that enables its Users to take better-informed water, environmental, and agricultural management decisions and, amongst others, mitigate the impacts of drought and floods. Access to DFMS only requires an Internetconnected device. Information is provided as maps or in graphs and tables, and several analysis tools allow for bespoke data processing and visualisation. Alarms can be tailored to indicate when parameters exceed user-defined thresholds. Creating DFMS required the development of a (software) platform to process data and visualise the resulting information; environmental data going into the platform and algorithms for processing; and a computing infrastructure (servers) to host the platform and provide the service. The DFMS Platform is built using Open Source software, including Open Data Cube technology for storing and analysing Earth Observation data. It extensively uses (free) satellite remote sensing data, but also takes in data gathered in situ. By making the platform scalable and replicable, DFMS can be extended to contain additional Products or be rolled out in other countries in the region and beyond.
Objectives
This project aims to provide accurate flood and drought predictions to farmers in Uganda so that they are able to use that information to adjust their farming and livestock activities, with the ultimate impact of reducing the losses they would otherwise suffer from flood and drought impacts. The system is enabled through use of data with improved quality, detail and frequency from the Sentinel 1, 2 and 3 satellites (to ensure low cost) combined with SMOS/SMAP and climate modelling/meteorological data.
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