Primary Convener: Walter Lee Ellenburg II, NASA SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States; University of Alabama in Huntsville Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners: Brenda Lazarus, Subregional Office for Eastern Africa Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Nairobi, Kenya, Catherine Lilian Nakalembe, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States and Joseph Huesing, USAID Fall Armyworm Mitigation IPM and Pesticide Regulation., Washington DC, United States
Primary Liaison: Walter Lee Ellenburg II, NASA SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States; University of Alabama in Huntsville Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Chairs: Walter Lee Ellenburg II, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, Brenda Lazarus, Subregional Office for Eastern Africa Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Nairobi, Kenya and Catherine Lilian Nakalembe, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison: Catherine Lilian Nakalembe, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
04:04
Responding to emerging food security needs using Earth Observation systems in Kenya (721538)
Lilian W. Ndungu1, Anastasia Mumbi Wahome2, Robinson M Mugo2, Walter Lee Ellenburg II3 and Catherine Lilian Nakalembe4, (1)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, SERVIR E&SA, Nairobi, Kenya, (2)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
04:08
Building Earth Observation Based Systems for Grain forecasting and Agricultural Outlooks in Eastern and Southern Africa (760917)
Frank Davenport IV1, Martin Francis Landsfeld2, Shrad Shukla3, Gregory J Husak2, Denis Macharia4 and Chris C Funk5, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Group, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, (4)Regional Center for Mapping Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (5)USGS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
04:12
Connecting Agriculture Stress Index Systems at the Sub-National Level to the Next Generation of Seasonal Climate Forecasts: A General Approach to Transition from Monitoring to Forecasting. (662318)
Diego Pons1, Ángel G. Muñoz2, Lena Schubmann3, Oscar Rojas4, Tufa Dinku5, Amanda Grossi2, Carmen Gonzalez Romero1 and Martin L. Leal6, (1)International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, United States, (3)World Food Programm, Guatemala, Guatemala, (4)Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, (5)International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Palisades, United States, (6)Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Food, Guatemala, Guatemala
04:16
Year-round Monitoring of Vegetation Conditions in an East African Rangeland: Implications for Livestock Forage Production in Response to Climate Variability and Local System Shocks (762779)
Julius Anchang, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Milkah Njoki Kahiu, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi Gpo, Kenya, Edward Ouko, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, Lilian W. Ndungu, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, SERVIR E&SA, Nairobi, Kenya, Wenjie Ji, New Mexico State University, Plant and Environment Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Qiuyan Yu, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, United States, Lara Prihodko, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Animal and range Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States and Niall P Hanan, New Mexico State University, Plant and Environmental Sciences Department, Las Cruces, NM, United States
04:20
Wheat Rust Early Warning and Advisory Systems in Ethiopia – Implementation of Remote Sensing Technologies to Combat Crop Disease (720415)
Gerald Blasch1, Dave Hodson2, Chris Gilligan3, Netsanet Bacha4, William Thurston5, Tadesse Anberbir4, Francelino Rodrigues2 and Pierre Defourny6, (1)International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center - CIMMYT Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (2)International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center - CIMMYT, Texcoco, Mexico, (3)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (4)Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (5)Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (6)Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
04:28
The Need for Soil Moisture in Detecting Desert Locust Breeding Grounds: A satellite assisted modeling approach (763292)
Ashutosh S Limaye1, Walter Lee Ellenberg2, Vikalp Mishra3, Jason B Roberts1, Jonathan Case4 and Clay B Blankenship5, (1)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama, AL, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)ENSCO, Inc./NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)USRA, Huntsville, AL, United States
04:32
Limitations of Remote Sensing for Assessing Damage Caused by Desert Locusts during the East Africa Upsurge (Invited) (673032)
Emily Caitlin Adams1, Helen Blue Baldwin2,3, Emil A. Cherrington4,5, Walter Lee Ellenberg6, Catherine Nakalembe7, Vikalp Mishra3,8, Ronan Lucey3 and Ritvik Sahajpal9, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)NASA SERVIR - Science Coordination Office, Washington, DC, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)NASA SERVIR, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama, AL, United States, (7)UMD, College Park, United States, (8)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR/SPoRT, Huntsville, AL, United States, (9)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
