Main Functions and Focus: Organizing and Maintaining Knowledge and Capacity
· GIS / Remote Sensing;
· Natural Resources Monitoring Network;
· Data base management; data review and updating;
· External Data and Information sourcing;
· CETRAD Information Documentation and Management Unit.
CETRAD runs a rich hydromet data and information base generated from its long term and comprehensive monitoring network in the upper Ewaso Ngiro North river basin. Most of this data is now linked through a real time transmission system and interfaced to its database as well as to some selected Water Resources Users Associations (WRUAs) in the upstream areas.