Transformative Environmental Monitoring to Boost Observations in Africa

Project Website (s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)

This deliverable is a project website that gives an overview of the project, partners, activities and results (in the form of publications, blogs, videos, pictures, reports etc.) as well as the project legacy. The website will be hosted on the reserved domain www.temboafrica.eu. The deliverable relates to Task 8.4 - Dissemination.

Water management information system - V1 (s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)

This deliverable is the first version of a Water Management Information System (WMIS) which relates to Task 3.5 - Front end-application for reservoir information management. A front end-application for reservoir information management built on top of the existing TWIGA platform will be used to provide the information from Tasks 3.1 to 3.4 to operators. This will be run with Kubernetes using Docker containers for the various software (models) and products from WPs 5-8.

Germination Insurance Policy and underwriting (s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)

This deliverable is a demonstration of a mobile platform for the design, onboarding and payout of germination insurance in Ghana. It relates to Task 4.2 - Germination insurance design and preparation. Building on the engagement process in Task 4.1, the insurance policy design will be updated and finalised. Underwriting and risk sharing will take place as well as product monitoring and preparation of payment of insurance compensation modules using mobile money and the GAIP digital platform for crop insurance.

Two bathymetry/topography maps - V1 (s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)

This deliverable provides the first versions of bathymetric and topographic maps for reservoirs to be surveyed including the Bui Power Dam and small and medium size reservoirs used for drinking water purposes and irrigation in Ghana and Zambia. The survey will be done using a combination of UAVs and low-cost GNSS, combined within the open-source photogrammetry platform OpenDroneMap with Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approaches from Abassi et al. (2017). These maps are essential for large scale flow estimates that use satellite images for flood mapping by establishing area-discharge curves. The deliverable relates to Task 7.3 - Bathymetry service development.

Operational fine scale soil moisture maps - V1 (s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)

This deliverable is a first version of operational fine scale soil moisture maps and relates to Task 6.4 - Calibrated fine scale soil moisture maps. In support of agricultural advice and insurance, fine scale soil moisture maps will be needed that can be used at or near field scale, down to one hectare. An existing method based on ESA Sentinel-1&2, such as developed in Italy by CNR, will be used and calibrated with the operational BLOSMs. Special attention will be paid to computational scalability (Kubernetes/Dockers). The fine scale soil moisture maps will provide much more spatial detail than satellite-based rainfall maps (1ha vs 1000 ha), which is very relevant for smallholder farms.

Operational calibrated rainfall maps - V1 (s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)

This deliverable entails the first version of calibrated rainfall maps (data sets) and relates to Task 5.2 - Rainfall maps. Large scale rainfall maps at basin (including Luangwa of the Zambezi in Zambia, the Black and White Volta basins in Ghana and the Yala in Kenya) and (sub-)continental scale (East Africa, West Africa and Southern Africa) will be produced here and made available through GEOSS.

Operational large scale soil moisture maps - V1 (s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)

This deliverable is a first version of operational large scale soil moisture maps and relates to Task 6.3 - Calibrated large scale soil moisture maps whereby we prepare soil maps with a resolution of 1km for the Volta and Luangwa Basins, with continent-wide scalability and low latency of 2 days. Updates will use rainfall maps (Task 5.2) and TAHMO-based evaporation estimates to run a simple water balance for the root zone. The assimilation of in situ and satellite data allows for calibration and error estimation. All scalable through Kubernetes/Dockers on Copernicus’ DIAS.

Results of FOSS discharge pilots - V1 (s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)

This deliverable is the first version of the data sets obtained by using the Free Open Source Software (OpenRiverCam) to process images collected using a low-cost camera based river observation system. The key innovative sensors will be smart cameras for velocimetry and GNSS reflectometry for water levels. This relates to Task 7.2 - Free and open-source river flow observations.The data sets will be obtained for Ghana and Zambia.

Modular Flood Early Warning System (s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)

This deliverable is a report on the set up of a modular Flood Early Warning System as a minimum viable product (MVP) that can be enhanced with additional modules and data sets with time using the TEMBO Lego™-ised system. The development of this will start in M1 since not all pieces are needed to derive the MVP. It relates to activities in Task 2.1 - Set up a modular Flood Early Warning System.