AfriCultuReS - S1: CLIMATE SERVICE
The Climate service provides information about mid-term climate variability and long-term climate change scenarios. The provided scientifically proven information and products aimed at enhancing the user’s knowledge and understanding about the impacts of climate on their field, allowing enhanced decision making.
AfriCultuReS - S2: CROP SERVICE
The Crop service provides information products for decision making on crop production, to this end the service entails multi-scale past assessment, seasonal and on-the-go crop mapping and crop condition monitoring as well as forecasts on expected yield for main crops.
AfriCultuReS - S3: DROUGHT SERVICE
The Drought service provides historical record of drought occurrence as well as mid and short term drought monitoring, forecasts and warnings.
AfriCultuReS - S4: LAND SERVICE
The Land service provides facts on land cover current situation and land cover changes as well as abiotic factors that affect, or can affect, food production.
AfriCultuReS - S5: LIVESTOCK SERVICE
The Livestock service provides information products for decision making on livestock production, to this end the service entails multi-scale past assessment, seasonal and on-the-go pasture and rangeland mapping and condition monitoring as well as assessment on the capacity of these productive environments to sustain livestock production.
AfriCultReS - S6: WATER SERVICE
The Water service provides geospatial products for water quality and quantity assessment and monitoring. Other products are designed to deliver information on the amount of soil water available for crop growing as well as water productivity and crop water requirements.
AfriCultuReS - S7: WEATHER SERVICE
The Weather service provides ten-day to near real time weather forecast. Forecast and weather records will serve to deliver early warnings on weather extremes and to predict (candidate product) the outbreak of weather driven crop pests and diseases.
Afri4CAst Services
Afri4CAst is a project, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) aiming at developing a modeling platform making full exploitation of satellite remote sensing of PRISMA and ECOSTRESS sensors for climate change impact analyses on agriculture, and making it available to African stakeholders for shaping future agricultural policies in the African Continent.