Case study
Social and Hydrological Information Platform (SHIP)
An early-warning and information platform for social, weather and hydrological data across the upper Ewaso Ngiro catchment in Kenya.
- Client
- Centre for Training and Research in Arid and Semi-arid Lands Development (CETRAD)
- Sector
- Natural resources
- Countries
- Kenya
The problem
The upper Ewaso Ngiro water catchment is in rapid land-use transition, with severe competition for scarce water and land among a large number of partners and stakeholders — and data from more than 100 monitoring sites that needed to be accessible in one place.
The solution
A platform for accessing a wide range of social, weather and hydrological data, with information drawn from sources including automatic sensors across the watershed, and asynchronous job processing for sensor ingestion, alerting and reporting.
Our role
We built the platform and keep it in production.
Outcome
The platform provides the basis for practical management of the catchment's water and land resources.
Technology
- Django
- Celery
- PostgreSQL/PostGIS
- Nginx
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