FanFAR
Description
FANFAR is an European Union-financed project striving toward the vision of achieving efficient flood management in West Africa. FANFAR seeks to realize the societal benefits of hydrological forecasts and flood risk information in order for societies to be aware of and prepared for upcoming floods.
Disaster Risk Response Stage
Response
Category
Flood Modeling
Temporal Use
None
Input Network
CEOS
Input Network Member
WGCapD
Provider Organization
SMHI; AGRHYMET; NIHSA; Eawag; isardSAT; Terradue
Point of Contact
Dr. Abdou Ali
E-mail
Source
Geographic Domain
Regional
Geographic Product Locations
Africa
Geographic Product Locations - Detailed
Producing Daily Global Coverage?
No
Globally Extensible
No
Product Delivery Latency
Unknown
Data Type
Unknown
Associated Capacity Development Resources
None
Product Format
Unknown
Archived
Unknown
Tailored Service Available
Unknown
License Type
Unknown
Spatial Extent
Unknown
Spatial Scale
Unknown
Caveats
Unknown
Frequency
Unknown
Overpass Latency
Unknown
Downlink Latency
Unknown
Processing Latency
Unknown
Impacted By Cloud Shadows
Unknown
Impacted By Terrain Shadows
Unknown
Status
Operational
Input By
Sydney Neugebauer, NASA Capacity Building Program
Notes
FANFAR is an European Union-financed project striving toward the vision of achieving efficient flood management in West Africa. FANFAR seeks to realize the societal benefits of hydrological forecasts and flood risk information in order for societies to be aware of and prepared for upcoming floods.
FANFAR gathers a cascade of actors from various disciplines at regional, national and local levels from 17 countries in West and Central Africa as well as external partner countries.
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