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Sebastian Wesselman

Geospatial solutions for the Himalayas

SERVIR Himalaya

• The International Centre for Integrated

Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is working in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan

• Aim: Address challenges related to

globalization and climate change that affect mountain ecosystems and livelihoods

An area of majestic beauty – a world heritage site for biodiversity Sources of freshwater reserves - headwaters for 10 major river systems Great relevance of Earth Observation due to inaccessible conditions and lack of data

The Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region

Climate Change Demographic Change Land use Change Globalization Social Change

Increase adaptive capacity and resilience of mountain and downstream communities

SERVIR Facility at NASA SERVIR-Mesoamerica SERVIR-Africa SERVIR-Himalaya

USAID-NASA SERVIR Initiative

SERVIR ~ to serve

To improve environmental management and resilience to climate change by strengthening capacity of governments and key stakeholders to integrate EO and geospatial technologies into decision making for sustainable development

Questionnaire survey National Workshops Qualitative Modeling Pilot Applications In-situ Data EO Data GIS Data Knowledge Base Issues/ Priorities Thematic Applications Quantitative Modeling (Near) Real-time Information Interactive Mapping Decision Support Plan / Policy & Decision making Data Access and Sharing Capacity Building and Training SERVIR-Himalaya Platform Gap Analysis Tools and Methods Data and Information Priority Areas Stakeholder Consultations Spatial Analysis Data and Information Integration Framework Analysis and Modeling Visualization and web- based Platform Institutional Strengthening and networking

Framework for Science Applications and Information Systems

Earth Observation for sustainable mountain development Aligning with GEOSS Priority Areas

Cryosphere & Water

Cryosphere & Water

Glacier mapping Automated snow cover product Hydrological modeling Snow Melt Runoff Models National partners Basin level water management Ancillary data Product design verification Product use & application Tools adoption

Cryosphere & Water

• Glaciers Monitoring - decadal change 1980-2010
• Snow cover dynamics

Historic changes of Snow and Glaciers in the HKH

Monitoring changes in glaciers and glacier lakes

Image is a portion of an uncalibrated ASTER Level 1A VNIR false-color image (321RGB), acquired on November 20, 2001

Bhutan Himalaya Tibet Himalaya

Cryosphere & Water

Cryosphere & Water

• Hydrological modeling
• Climate change and water availability scenarios (Wanchu basin, Bhutan)

MODIS based automated snow cover monitoring

Ecosystems & Biodiversity

• Land cover change and GHGs
• Multi scale biomass modeling
• Phobjika habitat conservation

National Partners Field data support Product design verification Product use & application Tools adoption Forest cover reporting systems REDD MRV framework RAMSAR site monitoring system

Ecosystems & Biodiversity

Forest Land cover Nepal 2010

Remote sensing based approaches for REDD+ mechanism in community forestry of Nepal Multi resolution satellite data based biomass models for baseline carbon assessment and monitoring

Green house gas inventory (Forest carbon flux) Operational forest monitoring system

2010 2000 1990

Pragati , Janapragati and NibuwaterCommunity Forest

Pragati , Janapragati and NibuwaterCommunity Forest

Tree Crown Size Analysis

2002

Tree Crown Size 2002

<50 50-100 100-150 150-200 200-250 >250

2009

Tree Crown Size 2009

<50 50-100 100-150 150-200 200-250 250-300 300-350 >350

Multi-scale Biomass Modeling REDD MRV Framework

• To develop multi resolution satellite data based

biomass models for baseline carbon assessment and monitoring

• Spatial biomass models tested, under calibration
• Landsat TM Seasonal Multispectral

Reflectance

• GeoEye based Stand level canopy

Morphology

• GeoEye based Species level canopy

projected area

• MRV Spatial frame work being worked out

R2=0.7674

Landsat TM based Spatial Biomass map (Decision tree model) Parameter Variable Importance

Disasters & Natural Hazards

Disasters & Natural Hazards

Forest fire detection & monitoring Flood early warning system National Partners Near real time fire reporting system Flood early warning system Ancillary data Product design verification Product use & application Tools adoption

Earth Observation: Forest fire detection

SMS alert

Agriculture & Food Security

Agriculture & Food Security

In season crop monitoring Crop production assessment National Partners Agriculture Drought Warning system Crop Planning management Historical data Product design verification Product use & application Tools adoption

Crop Growth Monitoring and Production Assessment

In season crop growth monitoring Crop production assessment in peak of season

In season anomaly maps based on 10 years average vegetation conditions data within the agriculture areas of Nepal Establishing relation between crop production and Season Max. NDVI based on 10 years data for wheat crop

Air & Atmosphere

Air & Atmosphere

Automated Aerosol Monitoring Validation of MODIS Aerosol Data Air Quality and Health Satellite based air quality reporting system National Partners Ancillary data Product design verification Product use & application Tools adoption

MODIS based applications

Visibility and partnerships

Access to Information

Outreach and Capacity Building

• Symposium
• Workshops/Training
• Youth Forum
• Science Applications

Showcase

Youth Programme

Way forward

• Raise awareness and make use of the wealth
• f Earth Observation data
• Regional collaboration, exchange of data and

standardizing methodologies

• Capacity building
• Work with key partners to implement

geospatial solutions

Thank You...