The ongoing activities of data and information management may be found on the data management page; other current projects are:ODINAFRICA Marine Atlas Project (OMAP) 2006
OMAP aims to identify, collect and organize available geospatial datasets into an atlas of environmental themes for Africa, under the sponsorship of the ODINAFRICA Program. OMAP will include and involve a number of other atlas-type projects on and around the African continent. The Atlas will use public domain continent-scale data, and existing GIS themes, layers, files, etc. that countries and other atlas projects are willing to share. In like fashion, OMAP will share all its files and products with any cooperating project. Read more... | |
Remote Sensing Server for Marine Sciences - southern Africa (2005-2006)
The Remote Sensing Server for Marine Science is a trial facility to access marine remote sensing data in the southern African region, processed using local algorithms. The server homepage is http://www.rsmarinesa.org.za
The server, developed with funding from the African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme and the
Bayworld Centre for Research and Education, is provided as a free public resource by the
Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem Programme. The server currently provides 1 km spatial resolution default sea surface temperature and chlorophyll a data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) sensor,and historical data from the Sea Viewing Wide-Field of View (SeaWiFS) sensor. New regionally optimized standard and experimental products will be added to the server as they evolve and mature. User feedback is therefore essential to server evolution, and users are encouraged to give critical commentary on all aspects of the server to
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ODINAFRICA Website Improvement Project
The objective of O.W.I.P project is to provide assistance, training and developping tools to the odinafrica webmasters. Read more... | |
Eastern African web-based clearinghouse mechanism
The Nairobi convention, through the UNEP-implemented WIO-LaB Project, has embarked on an activity to develop a web-based clearinghouse mechanism, building on the existing Eastern African Coastal and Marine Resources Database and Atlas. The contracting parties to the Nairobi Convention increasingly need access to and use of the coastal and marine data that is available in the region, to inform policy, management and science planning. A workshop was held in Nairobi, Kenya, from the 9th to the 11th May 2006 in order to seek opportunities and agree on a strategy to develop a consolidated, coordinated and integrated regional clearinghouse mechanism, in synergy with other national and regional initiatives, including ACEP. A Technical Working Group composed of ODINAFRICA, ACEP, DEWA representatives and other interested parties was constituted at regional level to address challenges of data and metadata standards. | |
ACEP Fish distribution project (2006)
ACEP has funding from SABIF to digitise fish distribution information, to be incorporated into the Specify database at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, to then be made available to SABIF and GBIF. Read more... | |
ACEP Western Indian Ocean GIS Atlas Project (2005)
A GIS atlas was developed for ACEP scientists, educators and collaborators, using public-access marine data for the western Indian Ocean, together with selected data collected by ACEP. Read more... | |
Regional workshop on information sharing
In October 2004, ACEP co-hosted a workshop towards a framework for information sharing between programmes and countries in the western Indian Ocean region. Sixty high profile scientists, researchers and government officials from 14 countries attended the meeting which bore fruit in terms of sharing ideas and developing common approaches to data sharing. Our partners and sponsors were the United Nations Development Programme's Agulhas Somali Currents Large Marine Ecosystems (ASCLMEs) Programme as well as the Census of Marine Life (CoML).
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