GMES and Africa’s CSSTE Creates Data Bank for Flood Events in West Africa

CSSTE, one of the twelve consortia under the GMES and Africa program is creating a data repository that will include historical and real-time data for individual, company and government use across West Africa.  

The CSSTE program is called Multi-scale Flood Monitoring and Assessment Services for West Africa (MiFMASS) and has seven partners from five West African countries working on it. The partners are across Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Cote D’Ivoire. 

The MIFMASS project will develop a flood monitoring and forecasting system for the Economic Community of West African…