VAMPIRE

Vulnerability Analysis and Monitoring Platform for Impact of Regional Events.

The WFPs VAMPIRE system provides a public interface to datasets on environmental conditions (e.g. drought, flood, El Nino) and their impact on food security within Indonesia. The platform also provides an access-point for other organisations or researchers wanting to obtain data for further analysis.

VAMPIRE is a multi-tier system that fuses satellite climate data, crowd-sourced food price data and household survey data to provide integrated visualizations of the extent of drought affected areas, impacts on market structure and pricing, and coping strategies and resilience of affected populations. The system automates data acquisition and processing, ensuring up-to-date information is available to participating organizations and governments. The system is designed to allow easy incorporation of additional data themes and application to other regions (for example, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste).

VAMPIRE was originally developed for use by WFP Indonesia Country Office to automate the generation of products for drought impact reporting. The system was designed to integrate with existing or proposed WFP Spatial Data Infrastructure, and hence leveraged capabilities of the ESRI ArcGIS suite of products including ArcPy, ArcMap and ArcGIS Server. Part-way through development, elements of the Government of Indonesia expressed interest in the system, and the design was modified to encompass an open-source solution using open-source python libraries, GeoServer, PostgreSQL and PostGIS. The system was modified extensively to meet open-source requirements for production of Rainfall Anomaly and VHI data products including automating product delivery to the web dashboard.

VAMPIRE can be thought of as two separate installations – the ArcGIS version and the open-source version. While, for the most part, the same python scripts are used for both systems, the implementations are functionally separate and rely on separate and different software solutions for each component of the system architecture stack and hence require individual development, management and maintenance.

In 2017, VAMPIRE won the WFP Innovation Challenge.

Reference:

1. https://vampire.idn.wfp.org/

2. https://medium.com/@WFPInnovation/wfp-staff-show-entrepreneurial-side-in-annual-competition-be03924215

Tools: ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Server, arcpy, python, numpy, GDAL/OGR, rasterio, Geoserver

Partner: Pulse Lab Jakarta - https://www.pulselabjakarta.org

Year: 2016

Team:

2015 - 2016: Amit Wadhwa, Rochelle Ohagan, Benny Istanto

2017 - 2018: Katarina Kohutova, Dio Dinta Dafrista