Earth Observation for Agricultural Risk Management (EO4ARM)
Sri Lanka
An initiative by International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the Earth observation for Agricultural Risk Management (EO4ARM) is a cloud based platform which supports various institutions including insurance companies to strengthen agricultural insurance program to enhance agricultural resilience among smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka. It provides a complete stack of solutions ranging from weather forecast, monitoring of floods and drought, crop health status and integrate farm-level updates for assessing climate risks among agencies for timely compensation and mitigation measures. The EO4ARM platform is developed using cloud-based spatial analytical framework to have seamless access to near real-time publicly available satellite data namely NASA MODIS, ESA Sentinel 1 & 2 for fine-scale agricultural insurance monitoring. The platform has capacity to access historical data to assist various partners to support new insurance products, disaster preparedness program including climate resilience strategies.
Lead (category)
Private company
Name of initiative lead (and partners)
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Categories of Digital initiative deliverables
Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery
ICT products/solutions and services by category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Rural Services
Non ICT products and services (deliverables)
Business and governance structure
Being implemented by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries, CGIAR, European Union (EU) and few other organizations.
DI ICT-deliverables format
Cloud-based
Mobile applications
Web-based platform
Satellite imagery
Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)
Farmers
Agribusiness / private organization
Government
Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders
Digital Initiative development Stage
Fully functional. Institutional-governance structure in place
Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries
Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)
National
All over Sri Lanka
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution