alexmaass/ethiopia-forecasts

Agricultural forecasts for Ethiopia. ethiopia-forecasts ================== Agricultural forecasts for Ethiopia. Documentation for Ethiopian Profitability Analysis Tool (12/21/14): *Disclaimer: All information contained in this document is accurate as of December 21, 2014. Subsequent changes to the application may render portions of this documentation obsolete or inaccurate. Please contact Professor Joshua Woodard (woodardjoshua@gmail.com) or Jeff Smith (jks257@cornell.edu) for assistance. This document is meant as a high level overview of the application and is not meant to explain lines of code. For fine-grained code explanations, please review the code files, as the code should be sufficiently commented. For questions regarding the codebase, please contact Alex Maass (am838@cornell.edu). Project Description: The Ethiopian Profitability Analysis Tool is used to show the expected profitability of using fertilizer when growing crops in Ethiopia. In its current state, the profitability forecast model is incomplete and therefore, the application functions only as a demo for a potential user interface. While the infrastructure can handle different profitability models, it is currently only capable of graphically displaying weather data from the AGMERRA dataset. The AGMERRA dataset contains woreda level information on solar radiation, maximum temperature, minimum temperature, rainfall, and wind speed from Jan 1, 1980 to Dec 31, 2010. There are two modes in which the data can be queried and viewed: map view and table view. Map view allows for the visualization of weather data as an overlay over a map of Ethiopia. Woredas with data available are drawn over a satellite map of Ethiopia, with each woreda colored to show data values in comparison to other woredas. Table view allows for the visualization of data in a simple table format. This allows for the viewing of numerical data in a standard table format where each value is associated with a specific woreda ID. Repository Location: The current codebase is …