Enabling access and usage of earth observations in environmental decision making in Eastern and Southern Africa through web-services, training and development of novel datasets


Shraddhanand Shukla1, Gregory J Husak1, Denis Macharia2, Michael Ngugi Kimani3, Martin Francis Landsfeld4, Emily Caitlin Adams5 and Christopher Funk6, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)Regional Center for Mapping Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya, (3)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Group, Santa Barbara, United States, (5)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, (6)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States