East Africa Drought Watch
The East Africa Drought Watch is a near-real time system that uses Earth Observation and Weather information to monitor drought conditions in the East Africa region. It contain drought-relevant information such as maps of indicators derived from different data sources (e.g., precipitation measurements, satellite measurements, modelled soil moisture content). Different tools, like Graphs and Compare Layers, allow for displaying and analysing the information and drought reports give an overview of the situation in case of imminent droughts.
The system is a service developed as part of the Intra-ACP Climate Services Project in collaboration with the Drought Unit at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. The system is an adaptation of the European Drought Observatory (EDO) adapted to the conditions in the East Africa region The (JRC) currently operates two Drought Observatories (DO): the European Drought Observatory (EDO) and the Global Drought Observatory (GDO) . These platforms are based on a shared technical platform that implements the above components and other additional enhancements.
See also
To download a PDF version of this guide use East Africa Drought Watch Manual
About
Background information
User Guide
Data Manager Guide
Data Manager Guide
Maintenance Guide
Maintenance Guide
- Introduction
- Overall CMS Components
- CMS Mechanism to display a webpage
- CMS Mechanism to edit a Mukau webpage
- Edit Page tabs
- Previewing and submitting pages for moderation
- CMS Administrator Tasks
- CMS Mapviewer Manager
- Creating, updating and deleting legends (symbology) and assigning it to a layer
- Creating, updating and deleting dataset categories
- Creating, updating and deleting a datasets
- Creating, updating and deleting a layer/ layers belonging to a dataset
- Creating, updating and deleting metadata information and linking it to a dataset