ICPAC: launch of East Africa Drought Watch
A new in house specialized system to monitor droughts, the first of its kind for Africa, that was developed in-house by ICPAC's programmers with the support of the Drought Group of the Natural Disaster Risk Unit at JRC.
Over the past year, ICPAC has been busy working on developing a series of hazard monitoring systems to serve various people and decision makers needs.
After the launch of the East Africa Hazards Watch, this is the turn of East Africa Drought Watch, https://droughtwatch.icpac.net/
More information
ICPAC is the IGAD Climate and Prediction Centre, a Climate Center accredited by the World Meteorological Organization that provides Climate Services to 11 East African Countries More.
ICPAC also hosts GMES and Africa, which supports East African countries to use Earth Observation (EO) data and technologies to monitor natural resources and food security. More
The European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), The Portals of the Disaster Risk Management Unit, https://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/edov2/php/index.php?id=1011
The East Africa Hazardss Watch (GMES blog), https://gmes4africa.blogspot.com/2021/07/icpac-launches-east-africa-hazards-watch.html
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