Dr Catherine Nakalembe has broad interest including agriculture and food security, early warning and assessment of disasters with remote sensing. She is the NASA Harvest Africa Program Leader and serves as the Agriculture and Food Security Thematic Leader on the NASA SERVIR Applied Sciences Team. She leads capacity building in the use of Earth Observations data (remote sensing and electronic field data) for agriculture monitoring in support of food security in the GEOGLAM context. Catherine works with national ministries of agriculture in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Mali, and regional agencies such as ICPAC and RCMRD, with development partners including LWR, World Bank, UNDP, JRC, FAO, WFP, and FEWSNET. Catherine pioneered the repurposing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from agricultural monitoring to the survey of major refugee resettlements in Uganda.
