Workshop: The Africa Drought Advisory System
DATE
20th June 2023
About the Africa Drought Advisory System
African Centre of Meteorological Application for Development (ACMAD) is implementing a Drought Advisory system namely the Mukau system at the continental level. The system is being developed by ACMAD as part of the Intra-ACP Climate Services Project in collaboration with the Drought group of the Natural Disaster Risk Unit at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (funder) and NORCAP.
The Mukau system is a web application that manages monitoring, forecasting, and historic drought-related data; and is an adoption of the EDO and GDO by JRC adapted to the conditions in Africa.
It is to be a public online near-real-time system that uses Earth Observation and Weather information to monitor drought conditions in the African Continent.
It is an Open-Source software package that delivers Content Management and Web-map services optimised for geographical data representing long time series. It is used in the European Drought Observatory, the Global Drought Observatory, the South and Central American Drought Observatory, and the Catchment Characterization system. It is based on PHP, Python, MapServer, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.
