How We Trained Our Drought Prediction Model on 20 Years of Ethiopian Satellite Data

Predicting drought in the Horn of Africa is not a problem of data availability — it is a problem of data fusion. This deep-dive walks through how Mobile Vet stitches NASA MODIS NDVI, CHIRPS rainfall estimates, ERA5 surface temperatures and ground-station observations into a single per-woreda risk score, and why every score that ships to a farmer has to be co-signed by a regional veterinary officer.