Africa Real Time Environmental Monitoring Information System (ARTEMIS)

The "Africa Real Time Environmental Monitoring Information
System (ARTEMIS)" is part of the FAO's use of satellite remote
sensing techniques to improve the surveillance and forecasting
capabilities of its Global Information and Early Warning System
(GIEWS). ARTEMIS was developed as a result of close technical
cooperation between the FAO and the NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, and the
National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands. Since August
1988, the ARTEMIS system has been delivering the following
products on a routine basis: ten-day and monthly cold cloud
duration maps for the continent of Africa and the Near East
(resolution 7.6 km); ten-day and monthly estimated rainfall maps
for the Southern Sahara, the Sahel, Sudan, and the tropical
countries of West Africa (resolution 7.6 km); ten-day and
monthly composite vegetation index maps for Africa, and the Near
East.

In addition to these databases, ARTEMIS contains a ten-year
vegetation index archive on a ten-day and monthly basis,
developed jointly by NASA GSFC and the FAO Remote Sensing
Centre. This archive allows for early assessment of current crop
growing conditions by comparison with known situations in the
past.
LANGUAGE:

English
ACCESS/AVAILABILITY:

ARTEMIS data products are available in photographic and digital
formats. Analyzed infomation is communicated in bulletins and
publications of Global Information and Early Warning System
(GIEWS) and Emergency Centre for Locust Operations (ECLO) of FAO.

For making ARTEMIS data available in a timely manner to users,
more and more use is currently being made of electronic mail.