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public relations. The system development section is responsible for setting
up the computer system, network connection, operation, and maintenance
of hardware and software and data reception and update. The data analysis
section is responsible for data analysis and display of the information to
the affected areas. The damage estimation and public relations section is
responsible for maintaining up-to-date statistical records and performing
economic analysis of the drought and reporting the outcome to the EIS and
making it available to public and the media.
To perform the above task, the Warning Center is equipped, in addition
to required personnel support, with the following: Remote sensing and
GIS hardware and software and their specialists, relevant equipment to
establish an on-line linkage with the ATTS, and public relations office. The
manpower in the center is pooled from existing government organizations
and consists of one director, two system engineers, two system officers, four
agricultural officers, two geographers, two hydrologists, three statisticians,
three economists, and two public relations officers.
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U se of Satellite Data
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Ad-
vanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) (noaasis.noaa.gov)
and Moderate Imaging Scatterometer (MODIS) (modis.gsfc.nasa.gov) are
suggested for drought monitoring. At this stage, the remote sensing data
are suggested to generate current land-use information as required in the
proposed early warning system. After the potential drought areas are iden-
tified, the use of satellite data with higher spatial resolution remote sensing
data is suggested to study detailed land-use types in the identified areas.
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Im plementation
The proposed drought early warning system will be implemented in three
phases: immediate, short term, and long term. The immediate phase will
last one year, and its purpose is to collect the existing drought risk maps
at various administrative levels and prepare drought maps for the whole
country based on the data analysis performed at the Warning Center. The
short-term phase will last two years. During this phase different drought-
monitoring techniques will be examined for their suitability of use in
the proposed system. In addition, the GIS database will be updated with
maps of larger scales (1:50,000), replacing the existing map with scale of
1:250,000. The long-term phase will continue for four years with the ob-
jective of developing the networking facility to connect the participating
organizations. Computer hardware and software will be developed during
this phase, and networking and transmission facilities will be installed at
all the participating organizations and field stations. Training and seminars
will also be organized for all personnel with the help of external experts.
 
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