Geert BORSTLAP AMESD / BDMS DevCoCast Workshop Antwerp

Geert BORSTLAP AMESD / BDMS

AMESD - DevCoCast

Agenda

1.

AMESD

2.

SADC THEMA

3.

AMESD & DevCoCast Cooperation

1) AMESD

A continental wide, pan-african

project for the development of

geo-information services.

5 Regional Economic Communities CEMAC, ECOWAS, IGAD, IOC, SADC

+ ACP Secretariat

International partners:

(EUMETSAT, JRC, WMO, UNEP, UNECA, FAO)

1) AMESD general purpose

To improve

“ Informed decisions in environmental management”:

1.

Improved Data Access (Rx)

• 53 AMESD Receiving Stations

• 1TB discs

2.

Setup Operational Geo-Information Services

• 1 THEMA Per Region

3.

Strengthen Policy Development Framework

•

Raising awareness of usefulness of EO for

environmental monitoring

4.

Capacity Building

1) AMESD Themas

CEMAC Management of Water Resources CICOS (Commission

Internationale du bassin Congo-Oubangui-Sangha), Kinshasa (DRC)

ECOWAS Water Management for Cropland and Rangeland Management

AGRHYMET (Centre Régional en agro-météorologie et

hydrologie, Niamey (Niger) IGAD Land Degradation Mitigation and

Natural Habitat Conservation

ICPAC (IGAD Climate

Predictions and Applications Centre), Nairobi (Kenya)

IOC Coastal and Marine Management MOI (Mauritius Oceanography Institute), Quatre-Bornes

(Mauritius Island) SADC Agricultural and Environmental

Resource Management

BDMS (Botswana Department of Meteorological Service), Gaborone (Botswana)

1) AMESD Programmatic aspects

PUMA >> AMESD >> MESA >> GMES-Africa

•

PUMA

• Deployment of 55 PUMA stations, in 46 African National Meteo Services

•

AMESD

• Deployment of about 50 AMESD stations in Ministries of Environment

• Development of services (“1 Thema per Region”)

• Capacity building component

•

MESA

=

• + Security

•

GMES Africa

REC

 SADC Secretariat

Regional Implementation Center

 BDMS (Botswana Department of Meteorological Services)

Participating countries

 Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South-Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Tanzania

Partners

 Service Development: ARC, CSIR-MERAKA, SAWS

 Capacity Building: UZ, UB, BCA

 Data: SAC (SANSA)

SADC-THEMA : “Agricultural and Environmental Resource Management”

2) SADC-THEMA: Definition

Agriculture

Service

Fire

Service

Drought

Service

Long Range Forecast

Capacity Building, User Interaction, Data Access

Ministries of Agriculture

Ministries of Environment

SADC THEMA Services

National Meteorological

Services

Agriculture

Service

Fire

Service

Drought

Service

Long Range Forecast

Capacity Building, User Interaction, Data Access

Ministries of Agriculture

Ministries of Environment

SADC Services

Key User:

Ministry of Agriculture (>> AMESD Station)

Based on:

REWS systems from SADC-RRSU

Allow agricultural remote sensing analysts:

But also a view to forecasting yield and production scenarios

The Agricultural service

Assist decision makers in answering the following questions:

 What crops are where?

 What is the crop condition?

 What is the crop stage?

 What is the likely yield?

Activities:

Get Products >> Data Exploration

Analysis >> Drill down in anomalies

Report

Service

Products via EUMETCast / FTP

Software (Processing Chains)

Training / Help Desk / Support / Forum

Final Result:

Monthly report with traffic light system Decadal updates

List of Products (31):

Agriculture Mask, Crop Statistics Map, Crop Specific Maps

Current Rainfall Map

 Cumulative Rainfall Map

 Rainfall Estimates Compared with average [difference]

Current Temperature estimate Map

Vegetation Index Map (+difference)

C-NDVI graphs for zones of interest

Dry matter Productivity (+cumulative)

Current Water Requirements Satisfaction Index (WRSI) Map

Onset of Rains Maps + anomaly

Soil Moisture Index Estimates

 Cumulate dry matter productivity comparison with average maps (%)

2) SADC THEMA : Agriculture

 Air Temperature Map from ground data measurements (20110821)

2) SADC THEMA : Agriculture

Agriculture

Service

Fire

Service

Drought

Service

Long Range Forecast

Capacity Building, User Interaction, Data Access

Ministries of Agriculture

Ministries of Environment

SADC Services

Key User:

National Meteorological Service (>> PUMA Station)

Based on:

Drought Monitoring System of ARC

Allow agricultural remote sensing analysts:

The Drought service:

Assist decision makers in answering the following questions:

 Is there drought now?

 Is there drought to be expected in the coming 1/3/6 months?

 Which areas are the most affected?

 Is the situation going to improve/worsen in the coming months?

Activities:

Get Products >> Data Exploration

Own Open Source Software >> Integrate data rainfall Stations

Create Drought & Drought Outlook Maps

Report

Service

Products via EUMETCast / FTP

Open-Source Software

Training / Help Desk / Support / Forum

Final Result:

Decadal updates

Examples of Products (16):

• NDVI difference

• Long-term average (cumulative) NDVI

• VCI / SDVI / PASG

Rainfall Maps

• Total cumulative rainfall – monthly, seasonal so far

• Long-term average rainfall – Ten-daily

Drought Maps/Graphs

• Drought risk map (Boolean/graded type)

• Graphs – Based on area within polygon where an index is lower than a specific cut-off value

2) SADC THEMA : Drought

Product: NDVIdavg__

NDVI Difference map

Shows the vegetation deviation from the average over 13y. Calculated as: current NDVI- average NDVI

Addis Ababa, May 2011

2) SADC THEMA : Drought

Product: DR_B

An image based on the observed rainfall

anomalies coupled with the expected anomalies based on the three-month forecast from the SAWS. Only two values, with areas probably at risk of drought conditions (based on the combination of

information) indicated with a value of 1 and the rest with a value of 0.

2) SADC THEMA : Drought

Agriculture

Service

Fire

Service

Drought

Service

Long Range Forecast

Capacity Building, User Interaction, Data Access

Ministries of Agriculture

Ministries of Environment

SADC Services

Key User:

 Ministry of Environment (AMESD Fire Station)

Activities:

Get Products (15 min ... 4/d ... daily...monthly)

Assess Good/Bad fires/Fire Risk >> Communicate >> Act Burnt Area >> Report

Service

 Products via EUMETCast / FTP

 AMESD Fire Field Terminal

 Training / Help Desk / Support / Forum

Final Result:

 Disaster Mgt Unit / Early Warning System

 Report

Products (5)

Comments

Active-Fires

MODIS + MSG Active Fires

FDI

Fire Danger Indexes (2x)

MODIS-BAE

Burnt Area Estimates

MODIS-721

MODIS 721 Band Combination

2) SADC THEMA : Fire

Example of daily Fire Report in

Agriculture

Service

Fire

Service

Drought

Service

Long Range Forecast

Capacity Building, User Interaction, Data Access

Ministries of Agriculture

Ministries of Environment

SADC Services

Intro

LRF has become mature

Not used in agricultural and environmental sector yet

Principle:

Use existing LRF and integrate into 3 core-services

Dissemination Side:

 Use EUMETCast for distribution

LRF

Crop

Drought

Fire

•

1, 3 and 6 monthly forecast

•

Updated every month

•

Products

 Rainfall Forecast

 Maximum Temparature Forecast

 Minimum Temparature Forecast

Example from SAWS

2) SADC THEMA : GEONETCast

Status of Dissemination via GEONETCast

Agriculture products (40/43) Drought products (5/13) Fire products (3/4) LRF (0/3) Dissemination via ftp: ftp://amesd.co.bw/sadcuser

In each country >> Up to 6 contact points

 NFP for Drought  NFP for Fire

But also

 PUMA NFP (not necesarily involved in SADC THEMA)  From Meterological Sevice

 NFPs from Universities (+)

 NRSC (National Remote Sensing Centers)

2) SADC THEMA : Receiving Stations

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Regional Training @ SAWS : Train the Trainer principle

SADC THEMA - DevCoCast Datasets

As input data (VGT4Africa)

As final output product (e.g. fire) Exchange

Software Manuals

User Contacts Standards:

Uses same defaults ROI / tools

Training (workshop in Gaborone) ITC: Advanced Application

Gaborone: Exploration of GEONETCast Product Portfolio Much appreciated by African Experts

More knowledge transfer desired

Production Centre (RIC = little VITO) “Operational”

GEONETCast

 The Success story within GEO

 Free data + Low cost Receiving Stations

A huge effort in Capacity Building is required To create a critical mass

Projects alone will not make it (one time events) Structural training is needed

Look into

>> On-distance education (GIS+RS) >> Curriculum Development

Universities have key role in spreading EO knowledge  Rx >> Access to NRT data

 Education purposes

 Curriculum Development  Produce staff for the future  Research and Development

 Thesis / PhD (cheap labor)  Future AMESD services

 Cooperation with their Ministries  Validation of products in the field

More Interaction between EU – Africa needed

 EU Researchers have no glue of user needs

 African users have no glue of available products  Regular contacts would be beneficial

 AU people to go to European Expert workshops (Geoland, etc)

 EU people to go to African User workshops

More Harmonization is needed Formats, ROI on GEONETCast Metadata

Duplication of Products Product Documentation

>> Advisory Land Expert Ctee >> Advisory Ocean Expert Ctee

Datasets on GEONETCast

Some Datasets are not (yet) used

Datasets are not based on user needs, but on Researcher Interest More awareness needed in Africa

More HR-data desired

Not only added-value data, but also L2 data desired MODIS 500m

SPOT VGT 10d bands

Inter-Sector Collaboration

Land – Ocean – Meteo – Air - Disaster – Univ’s - etc National Workshops >> EO Days

EO community gatheres for Workshop and/or Training GEONETCast = core technology (driver)

Training = data + applications

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