TIGER Call for Research Proposals 2014: Announcement of Results
2014-10
In September 2014, 25 African researchers from different institutions based on 12 countries submitted a proposal in response to the TIGER call proposals "Advanced Space Research for Water Resources Management in Africa"
All received proposals were reviewed following the requirements and evaluation criteria published in the call by a scientific committee composed by several Earth Observation experts belonging to lead European institutions.
In view of the overall high quality of the received proposals, downscaling the selection to only 10 was a difficult effort. Whilst the work with the 10 selected projects will officially begin in November with a Kick-Off meeting organised by the TIGER Capacity Building Facility, we will keep the community informed about any new possibility that will arise from the TIGER initiative over the newsletter. We would also like to remind that the latest release of the open-source Water Observation Information System (WOIS) is freely available at http://www.tiger.esa.int/page_eoservices_wois.php
We are pleased to announce that the following 10 proposals have been selected for TIGER 2014:
Title | Name | Country | African institution |
|---|---|---|---|
Intégration des données de l'Observation de la Terre et des données socio-énomiques pour la mise en place et le développement d'un système de gestion des ressources en eau pour le bassin hydraulique de l'Oum Er Rbia (Maroc) | Kamal LABBASSI | Morocco | Universitéhouaib Doukkali |
Water and Climate Information for Improved Agriculture Productivity in Ghana | Frank Ohene Annor | Ghana | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology |
Integrating Microwave and Optical Data for Monitoring Soil Moisture | Mohamed Abdel Hady Abdel hamid Salem | Egypt | Agriculture and Biology Research division, National Research Centre |
Gestion des Inondations par Imagerie Radar & Optique | Solofoarisoa Rakotoniaina | Madagascar | Institut & Observatoire de Géhysique d.Antananarivo (IOGA), University of Antananarivo |
Wide-Scale Modelling of Water and Water Availability with Earth Observation/Satellite Imagery | Adriaan van Niekerk | South Africa | Stellenbosch University |
Assess the Lake level changes and total water storage in the Kenyan Rift Valley from satellite-based observations | Vincent Odongo | Kenya | Egerton University |
Development of a water related disaster prevention and mitigation monitoring system for Lake Kyoga basin, Uganda | Barasa Bernard | Uganda | Makerere University |
Water Budget and Groundwater Availability Assessment in the Black Volta Basin, Ghana | Amos Tiereyangn Kabo-Bah | Ghana | University of Energy and Natural Resources |
Comparison Between Satellite Soil Moisture Estimation (SMOS and Sentinel-1) and Hydrological Model Simulation (SWAT) in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia. | Abeyou Wale Worqlul | Ethiopia | Bahir Dar University, Tana Sub-Basin Organization (TaSBO) |
Developing Regional Constraints for Streamflow Prediction and Climate Change Impacts Assessment in Ungauged Catchments of the Congo River | Raphael Tshimanga | Democratic Republic of the Congo | CB-HYDRONET; University of Kinshasa |
