East Africa Operational Data
Collection
Live-domain datasets grounding coordination agents: civic, climate, agriculture, health NLP. • 3 items • Updated
id string | source string | dataset string | coverage string | data_type string | resolution string | access string | license string | use_for_coordination string | key_finding string | tags list | crops_covered list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
NASA001 | NASA Giovanni / TRMM Precipitation Data (open access) | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 3B43 | Africa 1998-2015 | Monthly precipitation estimates (mm/month) | 0.25° x 0.25° | https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov | US Government — public domain | Drought monitoring; rainfall anomaly detection; planting calendar calibration | East Africa Long Rains (March-May) showed 15-20% decline 1998-2010 vs historical baseline | [
"rainfall",
"drought",
"nasa",
"satellite",
"east-africa",
"climate"
] | null |
NASA002 | NASA MODIS Land Surface Temperature (open access) | MOD11A2 — 8-day land surface temperature 1km | Africa | Land surface temperature (°C) | 1km x 1km | https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov | US Government — public domain | Heat stress for crops; urban heat island detection; drought severity proxy | null | [
"temperature",
"drought",
"land-surface",
"nasa",
"satellite"
] | null |
NASA003 | NASA NDVI (Vegetation Index) via MODIS (open access) | MOD13Q1 — 16-day vegetation index 250m | Africa | NDVI and EVI vegetation indices | 250m x 250m | https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov | US Government — public domain | Drought early warning; crop health monitoring; rangeland condition | NDVI anomalies 6-8 weeks before ground-level drought confirmation — early warning signal | [
"ndvi",
"vegetation",
"drought",
"early-warning",
"satellite",
"crops"
] | null |
NASA004 | NOAA Climate Prediction Center — Africa Rainfall Estimates | Africa Rainfall Climatology version 2 (ARC2) | Africa 1983-present | Daily rainfall estimates from satellite + gauge | 0.1° x 0.1° | https://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NOAA/.CPC/.FEWS/.Africa/ | NOAA open data — public domain | Seasonal rainfall monitoring; FEWS NET early warning system base data | null | [
"rainfall",
"noaa",
"daily",
"africa",
"fews",
"early-warning"
] | null |
NASA005 | USDA Foreign Agricultural Service — Production, Supply & Distribution (PSD) | Grain and oilseed production estimates by country | Africa countries | Annual production, area, yield by crop and country | null | https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/ | US Government — public domain | National food balance sheets; import/export planning; price outlook | null | [
"production",
"usda",
"grains",
"food-security",
"national",
"africa"
] | [
"Maize",
"Sorghum",
"Millet",
"Wheat",
"Rice",
"Cassava",
"Sweet potato"
] |
NASA006 | USDA FEWS NET — Livelihoods and Food Security Zone Maps | East Africa livelihood zone maps | Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia | Livelihood zones (pastoral, agropastoral, farming) with seasonal calendars | null | https://fews.net | USAID/USDA open data | Agricultural calendar coordination; market integration; shock response targeting | null | [
"livelihoods",
"food-security",
"fews",
"east-africa",
"pastoral",
"agriculture"
] | null |
NOAA001 | NOAA CHIRPS — Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station Data | CHIRPS v2.0 — daily/monthly rainfall 1981-present | Africa (20N-40S) | Precipitation (mm) | 0.05° x 0.05° (~5km) | https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps | Open data — freely available | Highest resolution publicly available rainfall for East Africa; drought monitoring | null | [
"rainfall",
"chirps",
"daily",
"high-resolution",
"drought",
"east-africa"
] | null |
Open Government Climate & Agricultural Data for Africa
Catalog of openly available US government and international datasets for Africa — NASA, NOAA, USDA, FEWS NET. All public domain or open access.
These are the raw material for AI coordination tools doing drought monitoring, agricultural planning, and food security analysis.
Datasets Cataloged
| Source | Dataset | Resolution | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA TRMM | Monthly precipitation | 0.25° | 1998-2015 |
| NASA MODIS | Land surface temperature | 1km | 2000-present |
| NASA MODIS | Vegetation index (NDVI) | 250m | 2000-present |
| NOAA CPC | Africa Rainfall Estimates | 0.1° | 1983-present |
| NOAA CHIRPS | Daily rainfall | 0.05° | 1981-present |
| USDA FAS | Crop production estimates | Country | Annual |
| USDA FEWS NET | Livelihood zones | Spatial | Current |
Why This Matters
East Africa's coordination infrastructure depends on:
- Drought early warning (6-8 week advance via NDVI)
- Seasonal rainfall forecasting (planting calendar)
- Food production estimates (import/export planning)
- Livelihood zone maps (shock response targeting)
All of this data exists, is free, and is currently underused in AI tools.
Related Tools
- wapimaji-mcp — drought intelligence
- kilimo-mcp — agricultural coordination
- bima-mcp — parametric insurance
Use this dataset with the coordination stack
- Evaluate any model on Swahili agent tasks: kipimo —
pip install kipimo· leaderboard - Run the MCP servers this data serves:
pip install reli-cli && reli list— 33 servers on the official MCP Registry underio.github.gabrielmahia - Route tasks across servers: africa-coord-bus — offline-first event bus with a built-in Kenya routing table
- All East Africa datasets: huggingface.co/gmahia
Open weights welcome: these resources are model-agnostic by design — closed APIs, open-weight models (Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek, Nemotron, Llama), and small distilled models score on equal terms.
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