Abstract
SERVIR-Africa—Using GIS to Respond to Flood Distress
Track: Disaster Management and Emergency Response
Author
SERVIR-Africa is an ambitious regional visualization and monitoring system that integrates remotely sensed data with predictive models and field-based data to monitor ecological processes and respond to disasters. It aims to address wide range of thematic areas that are important to the people of our region and their environment, turning data into actionable information for decision-makers. Floods are a form of disasters that commonly plague Africa, probably second only in impact to drought. This paper demonstrates the use of Esri's ArcGIS products in an integrated platform to support flood disaster prediction and response, through enterprise data management, geoprocessing, and dissemination. The process starts with the identification of flood potential and flooded areas using satellite data and models. These are combined with field-based data collection and analysis of the socio-economic and ecological conditions of the area, and result in the dissemination of synthesized information products to aid in disaster response.
Daniel Njau
SERVIR-Africa RCMRD
Box 632 - 00618 Ruaraka
Nairobi, Nairobi 00618
Kenya
Phone: +254-20-8560227/8562427
Fax: +254-20-8561673/8563767
E-mail: dmacharia@rcmrd.org
Dan Irwin
National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Marshall Space Flight Center 320 Sparkman Drive Huntsville, AL 35805
Huntsville, Alabama 320
United States
Phone: +1-256-961-7945
E-mail: daniel.irwin@nasa.gov
Tesfaye Korme
Regional Center for Mapping and Resource Management
P.O. Box 632 - 00618 Ruaraka
Nairobi 00618
Kenya
Phone: +254-20-8560227
E-mail: korme@rcmrd.org
YANG HONG
School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, The University of Oklahoma
202 W. Boyd ST, Carson Engineering Center, Room 334, Norman, OK 73019
Norman, Oklahoma 202
United States
Phone: +1-405-325-3644
E-mail: yanghong@ou.edu
Fritz Policelli
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771-0003
Greenbelt, Maryland 20771-0003
United States
Phone: +1-301- 286-9041?
E-mail: frederick.s.policelli@nasa.gov
Bob Adler
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
Greenbelt, Maryland 912
United States
Phone: +1-301-614-6290
E-mail: robert.f.adler@nasa.gov