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aWhere L&E Products

Mosquito Abatement Decision Information System (MADIS)

MADIS is a solution-as-a-service platform providing predictive mosquito control insight from the spatial modeling of mosquito entomology, local data, and advanced remote satellite surveillance. MADIS will identify and prioritize habitat sites with precision. Learn more about MADIS here.

Malaria Command & Control Platform (MCC)

The aWhere Malaria Command & Control Platform improves program efficiency, enables logistical improvements, and expands nationwide malaria control operations capacity. The MCC Platform delivers fact-based insight enabled by comprehensive data collection and integration, location-based analytics, remote surveillance, and entomological monitoring to meet the objectives of malaria control efficacy plus monitoring and evaluation execution. Learn more about MCC here.

Agricultural Information System (AIS)

In developing and underdeveloped countries today, government departments, aid organizations, farmers, and commercial entities are unable to access timely, location-specific information related to land tenure, crop production, food security, and market access. Millions of dollars are spent each year without clear knowledge of local conditions, project viability, or opportunity. Further, without information transparency, financial institutions are unwilling or unable to fulfill investments in crop, infrastructure, and food security initiatives.

The Agriculture Information System (AIS) technology solves these issues by intelligently integrating local and casual data with remote sensing data derived from satellite imagery, advanced spatial analytics, comprehensive content integration, and internet-based information delivery technology. When fully implemented, a solution of this scope will positively impact agricultural practices, productivity, and food security.

Location-based information is imperative across the value-chain of agriculture – from researchers to producers to marketers to food processors to policy makers. The ability to spatially integrate multiple sources and formats of agro-economic data, predictive crop and pest models, land tenure, remote sensing data, and on-the-ground user data is the foundation of an AIS platform. Specifically, an Agriculture Information System (AIS) can provide:

aWhere Survey Solution

Real time location-specific tracking of farmer adoption of new innovations, technologies, and practices (e.g., the purchase and planting of improved seed varieties) is essential to assess performance against agricultural productivity targets in emerging agricultural economies. This reporting gap is regrettable because farmer adoption is a critical intermediate outcome in the theory-of-change that is central to program success. Increased uptake and adoption of new innovations and practices is necessary to evolve from specific interventions to sustainable agricultural productivity growth targets - productivity that will drive the ultimate impact on poverty reduction. Therefore, the ability to reliably and dynamically track adoption rates is a critical component of any aWhere M&E solution.

Ultimately, the need is not only to collect good data on adoption rates, but also the ability to correlate adoption data with other location specific data, such as agriculture inputs (i.e. fertilizer), rainfall patterns\weather forecasting, soils data, and markets information. The ability to do real time tracking of adoption rates alongside other critical location-specific data is a powerful tool to monitor performance against sustainability productivity growth targets. Response data are critical in evaluating the prioritization and location-specific targeting of investments in focus countries.

The aWhere Survey SolutionTM for Agriculture delivers a turnkey mobile survey system to create and administer survey questionnaires, manage survey responses, and integrate the response data directly into the aWhere monitoring and evaluation applications.

There are six elements to the aWhere Survey Solution which has been specifically designed as a plug-in service to the aWhere location intelligence platform. These specific data flows and elements are outlined in Figure 1.

1. Creation – survey application and form design for wide variety of smartphones with controlled distribution to target users
2. Collection – surveys carried out in the field or remotely over the phone
3. Synchronization – pushing field survey response data up to the server whenever a connection becomes available (surveys are stored locally until that time)
4. Integration – quality checking survey data and integrating into an aWhere Data Star
5. Visualization – integration within the broader information system (aWhere Data Constellation)
6. Analysis and Feedback – analysis of survey results and aggregated information with other data sources to drive recommendations and near real time project adjustments.

WeatherTerrain™ and WeatherPin™

aWhere WeatherTerrain™ captures over 10,000 global weather station observations each day – and upwards of six variables per station. Historic weather data is interpolated to within five miles of any location, a level much more precise than is otherwise available in rural areas. WeatherTerrain™ data is available for the U.S, Eastern and Southern Africa and South Asia and accessible through a Web application (WeatherPin) or in map and chart form – or both – and can be easily integrated with other databases.

PestMonitor™

aWhere PestMonitor™ combines hourly weather forecast data with University researched pest prediction models to identify areas of the country where crops are vulnerable to insects, weeds and/or disease pathogens. PestMonitor™ is provided in the form of e-mail text alerts that are linked to Web-based maps available 24/7 showing crop areas where conditions are conducive to a particular pest species. aWhere Inc. has catalogued research papers for more than 100 pests that are impacted by Weather. Presently, PestMonitor features over 20 pests of alfalfa, corn, wheat, soybeans, peanuts, grapes and pome fruits. PestMonitor™ is currently available in North America, Eastern and Southern Africa and South Asia.