Services & Products

Our Services

TEMBO offers three (3) services and they are described below.

Flood Early Warning Systems(FEWS)

FEWS

Africa is the only continent where the number of flood victims has increased since 1990. Comprehensive flood protection through dikes is only possible in a very limited number of cases. Flood Early Warning Systems (FEWS) is seen as a very cost-efficient mitigation measure.

Dam Reservoir Management

Hydropower development in Africa is undergoing a surge, with parallel investments in windmills and solar plants. The uneven production of solar power can be buffered by extra or reduced water releases. Although the technology for this exists,

Germination Insurance

Agriculture is the single largest employment sector in Africa. Food growing capacity has to double the coming generation to feed the world`s increasing urban population. According to the FAO, smallholder farmers, who run the bulk of Africa`s farms, face many hurdles when it comes to accessing

Our Products

The following are the products we provide. TEMBO provides five (5) products

Rainfall Maps

The maps here have low latency for operational services, such as crop insurance and flood warnings. They have a spatial resolution of 5km and a temporal resolution of three hours

Soil Moisture Maps

These maps have a continent-wide scalability and low latency of 2 days and help with bias removal.

Open Water

These products will develop river discharge time-series for selected sites as well as produce operational maps of open water and bathymetry of floodplains and reservoirs.

River discharge

These products in this category derive river discharge measurements, time series, and error estimates.

Floodplain Mapping & Bathymetry

These products translate existing remote sensing surface area and river width estimates into wetted profiles and reservoir volumes.

Impact

TEMBO Africa offers a range of technical solutions, combined with special attention to governance, often the main obstacle to successful implementation. This means that in addition to showing technical added value, raising awareness and building trust are key components of the initiative.

TEMBO Africa will increase the number of low-cost weather stations and the areal coverage of the data, and generate top-quality data records, which leads to improved weather forecasting in general, but also supports seasonal climate forecasting and climate change projections.