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DESCRIPTION:Farmers and herders in the West African Sahel are critically vu
 lnerable to climate shocks and need access to climate information to secur
 e their livelihoods. Herders use data on pasture and water availability to
  move their livestock and farmers need weather predictions to plan their p
 lanting. While satellite imagery has made much of this information readily
  accessible to the spatial community\, few channels exist to transmit this
  information to herding communities. As a result\, climate data has become
  more powerful than ever before\, yet mostly inaccessible to those who dep
 end on this information for their livelihoods.\n\nThis talk goes over the 
 lessons of a programme that seeks to bridge this gap. GARBAL is a call cen
 ter that uses Copernicus Earth Observation imagery and field data to provi
 de farmers & herders with information on pasture\, water and markets in Ma
 li\, Niger and Burkina Faso. GARBAL was first developed in 2015 and this t
 alk will provide lessons from several years of practice.\n\nThe GARBAL int
 erface is built on mapserver and uses automated scripts to download and tr
 eat imagery from Sentinel 2 and Meteosat which then display information on
  pasture conditions and water availability. Field data is routed through a
  network of local data collectors who provide weekly updates on livestock 
 conditions and market prices. In addition to an interactive map\, the inte
 rface provides user-friendly textual outputs that summarize all the layers
  for any area of interest on the map\, which allows call center agents to 
 quickly provide data to callers. \n\nThe talk will share lessons from the 
 technical and programmatic aspects of the project. The technical side will
  go over the architecture of the data treatment\, demo the interface\, tal
 k about successes and failures and show how you can play with the data you
 rself. The programmatic side focuses more on how the user needs evolved ov
 er the years\, techniques for translating GIS data into information useful
  to farmers and herders\, operating in areas of active conflict and how EO
  data fits into existing centuries-old traditional data collection systems
  in the Sahel.
DTSTAMP:20260403T155834Z
LOCATION:Room 9
SUMMARY:Sharing EO data with farmers and herders in the West African Sahel:
  Lessons from the GARBAL program - Alex Orenstein
URL:https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-2022/talk/7Z9CUH/
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