Using Satellites to Make Index Insurance Scalable
- Lead PI: Dr. Daniel Edward Osgood
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Unit Affiliation: International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI)
- September 2011 - September 2013
- Inactive
- Africa ; Sub-Saharan Africa ; Ethiopia
- Project Type: Research
DESCRIPTION: The project goal is to reduce satellite error when developing insurance indexes by improving satellite vegetative fraction validation of HARITA indexes for 50,000 people in Ethiopia.
OUTCOMES: The team has compared 12 years of data performance against ARC remote sensing. Other remote sensing methods are being examined for their capacity to improve ARC.