Meteorological Satellite Products and Services for Livelihood Enhancements: Based on Real Life Applications
- Paper number
IAC-07-B1.6.04
- Author
Dr. S.K. Srivastava, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India
- Coauthor
Dr. V.S. Hegde, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India
- Coauthor
Dr. V. Jayaraman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India
- Year
2007
- Abstract
There are success stories, which have demonstrated how space information products and services, especially those derived from meteorological satellites, could make a difference to the lives and livelihoods of the poor farmers and fishermen. What holds the key is to have the practical knowledge and skill at community level to extract the relevant information in support of their livelihood enhancements. To enable such empowerment, appropriate products and services should be developed and operationally provided to be practically utilized by the end-users who are not familiar with them. For this objective, relevant service chains, or value-adding chains, have to be put into the place. The present study has placed focus on stories from real life domains of the end-users of meteorological satellite (MetSat) products, mostly from the developing countries. Stories, whilst anecdotal, offer a rich picture of the usefulness of SatMet products in local, complex and dynamic social settings. Each story is specific to and reflective of the needs at a particular time of the community in which it was discovered. Each owes its outcome to the sensitive and timely delivery of useful information that contributed to local knowledge, which facilitated something desirable for the recipient. The paper besides analyzing these stories from community centric perspective concludes with some lessons on enabling MetSat products in support of strengthening the community livelihood systems in the developing countries. It also brings into the focus the scope for international cooperation in developing as well as disseminating community centric MetSat products.
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