World Meteorological Organization

 

Training course on the use of satellite products for drought monitoring and agricultural meteorology applications

 

Harare, Zimbabwe
24-28 October 2016

Programme

Participants

Announcement

Presentations

Day 1: Monday 24 October 2016

• Remote sensing of the surface by Jose Prieto (EUMETSAT)
• Land SAF Vegetation products and land surface temperature by Carla Barroso (IPMA)
• How to evaluate rainfall with Remote Sensing techniques by Jose Camacho (WMO)

Day 2: Tuesday 25 October 2016

• SAF Nowcating by Delia Gutierrez (AEMET)
• Rainfall estimation techniques at tropics by Jose Camacho (WMO)
• Vegetation and crop monitoring - ASIS software by Oscar Rojas (FAO)
• Remote sensing of vegetation by Hervé Kerdiles (JRC)

 

Day 3: Wednesday 26 October 2016

• Operational use of satellite products in Western Africa by Seydou B. Traore et al. CILSS/AGRHYMET
• Drought monitoring data sets and tools by Tamuka Magadzire (FEWSNET)
• GEOCLIM software for gridding and analysis (FEWSNET)
• Agrometeorological seasonal monitoring and reporting (FEWSNET)
• Introduction to yield forecasting with CST by Hervé Kerdiles (JRC)

 

Day 4: Thursday 27 October 2016

• Soil moisture monitoring and evaluation in South Africa by Scott Sinclair (Univ. Kwazulu-Natal)
• Satellite rainfall estimation and the TAMSAT project by Ross Maidment (Uni. Reading)
• Drought Monitoring in SADC countries by Brad Garanganga (SADC-CSC)
• WMO activities in Agricultural Meteorology by José Camacho (WMO)
• SPIRITS Software for processing Remote Sensing time series by Hervé Kerdiles (JRC)
• Reports on drought monitoring and food security activities in Zimbabwe presented by various national institutions: Meteorological Services Department, Ministry of Agriculture and the Tobacco Research Board

 

Day 5: Friday 28 October 2016

• Use of remote sensing products for drought monitoring and agricultural meteorology by each participating country:Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa.