Famine Early Warning Systems Network - Africa

This platform can be used to obtain near real-time information on meteorological, hydrological, and agricultural drought hazards for Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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Date (Publication)
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Custodian
  USGS - N/A ( )
https://earlywarning.usgs.gov/fews/search/africa
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard
Credit

Funk et al. (2015) Scientific Data; Xie and Arkin (1997) Verdin and Klaver (2002) Hydrologic Processes; Xie and Arkin (1997) BAMS; Senay et al. (2011) Agricultural Water Management
Custodian
  USGS, Contact form in website
Maintenance and update frequency
Daily
Update scope
Platform
Theme

  • Type: Platform

  • Type of Drought: Meteorological, Agricultural, Hydrological Drought

  • Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard

  • Extent: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Use limitation

None
Access constraints
Intellectual property rights
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Date
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Distance
Aggregation period: Pentad to seasonal  
Distance
Spatial scale: 500m to 5 km  

Spatial resolution

No information provided.
Metadata language

eng
Description

Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Begin date
Varies (CHIRPS - 1981, TRMM - 2000, eMODIS - 2010)
End date
near real-time
Date (Revision)
Reference system identifier
EPSG / No Spatial Reference given / 7.9
Distribution format
  • ( Various )

OnLine resource
https://earlywarning.usgs.gov/fews/search/africa
Hierarchy level
Series
Description

Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Temporal Extent

No information provided.

Vertical extent

Dataset

Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard

Non quantitative attribute accuracy

Measure description

N/A
Evaluation Method
Direct internal

Conformance result

Date (Revision)
Pass

Conformance result

Date

Completeness omission

Name of measure

Codelist omission
Evaluation Method
Direct internal

Conformance result

Date (Revision)
Pass
Statement

Data requirements to use: None;

Data used: Geostationary IR, MODIS IR/visible;

Data format: GeoTIFF;

Data access: FTP, HTTP, Web Mapping Servers;


Concise description:

The primary strength are: (1) Reliance on both satellite and station data (2) Availability of multiple diverse datasets to allow for convergence of evidence (iii) near real-time availability (iv) ground truth validation in near-real time. (v) freely and publically available output (vi) website based interface provides easy access.


Indices included:

CHIRPS precipitation, NOAA Rainfall Estimate, SSEBop Evapotranspiration, eMODIS NDVI, Water Requirement Satisfaction Index
File identifier
170661e9-32ff-4690-b67e-7b2ca10e481d XML
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Platform
Hierarchy level name

Famine Early Warning Systems Network - Africa
Date stamp
2022-02-07T11:04:36
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Custodian
  USGS - N/A ( )
https://earlywarning.usgs.gov/fews/search/africa
Dataset URI

https://earlywarning.usgs.gov/fews/search/africa

 
 

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Keywords

Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard Extent: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe Type of Drought: Meteorological, Agricultural, Hydrological Drought Type: Platform

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