Famine Early Warning Systems Network

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) is an information system designed to identify problems in the food supply system that potentially lead to famine or other food-insecure conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, Afghanistan, Central America, and Haiti. Click here for more.

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USGS FEWS NET Data Portal
The USGS FEWS NET Data Portal provides access to geo-spatial data, satellite image products, and derived data products in support of FEWS NET monitoring needs throughout the world. This portal is provided by the USGS FEWS NET Project, part of the Early Warning and Environmental Monitoring Program at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.
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Software Portfolio
  • Early Warning Explorer
    (EWX) arrow     		EWX Geospatial Water Requirement Satisfaction Index (GeoWRSI) arrow GeoWRSI
    The Early Warning Explorer (EWX) software is an interactive web-based mapping tool that allows users to visualize continental-scale rainfall estimate (RFE), land surface temperature (LST)... more The Geospatial WRSI is a geospatial stand-alone implementation of the Water Requirement Satisfaction Index (WRSI), as it is implemented by USGS FEWS NET. The program runs a crop-specific water balance model... more
  • Decision Support Interface
    (DSI) arrow     		DSI Geospatial Stream Flow Model (GeoSFM) arrow
    GeoSFM
    The Decision Support Interface (DSI) software is a web-enabled decision support tool based on weather and crop conditions. The DSI incorporates a series of drought monitoring rules... more The Geospatial Stream Flow Model (GeoSFM) provides a tool for monitoring wide-area hydrologic events. Model results include maps depicting the status of streamflow, soil water conditions, and... more