Research Workshop
The Blue Nile Water Institute at Bahir Dar University is organizing and hosting a one-day workshop on Saturday, 17 December 2011
GEONETCast
GEONETCast is a milestone in the emerging Global Earth Observation System of Systems that is being coordinated by the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations, and is designed to put a vast range of essential environmental data at the fingertips of users around the globe.
Achievements on Satellite data reception
Currently, BDU is receiving raw data from Metosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites every 15 minutes in 12 spectral bands.
Study area description
The study area, Lake Tana is the source of the Blue Nile River and has a total drainage area of approximately 15,000 km2, of which the lake covers 3,060 km2 at elevation 1,786 m amsl (Abeyou 2008). The lake is the largest lake in Ethiopia and the third largest in the Nile Basin.
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Research Workshop
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