ESCAP Activities of RS/GIS for Disaster
Risk Reduction in the Pacific
Shoji Matsubara
Expert, Information and Communications Technology and Disaster
Risk Reduction Division (IDD), United Nations Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Pacific Countries GIS/RS User Conference
29th November – 2nd December 2011
Suva, Fiji
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• United
Nations
Conference
on
Sustainable
Development (UNCSD) will take place in Brazil on 4-6
June 2012,
• to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED),
and
• assess the Progress and remaining gaps in the
implementation of the outcomes of the major summits
Themes:
(1) Green economy in the context of sustainable
development and poverty eradication;
(2) Institutional framework for sustainable development
(IFSD) has expanded since the watershed Rio Conference,
United Nations - Economic and Social Commissions
for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
• ESCAP is the largest regional economic and social
cooperation arm of the UN in Asia and the Pacific.
• ESCAP is pursuing environmentally Sustainable
Economic and Social Development including
Economic and Social Connectivity by using multisectoral approach.
• Economic and Social Connectivity has also rapidly
improved by the development of Information and
Communication Technology (ICT), Space
Applications, the awareness rising/preparation of
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Transportation.
Key Vulnerability in Pacific
• Dispersed and least connected
• ‘Pacific Ring of fires’ where about 90% of the
world's earthquakes
• Pacific Typhoon tracks and increasing incidence of
Climate Change and Sea level rise
• Incidence of high frequency and low impact
disasters such as storm surge, coastal erosion
• Small economies with extreme hazards need
resilience
building
through
enhanced
preparedness and risk reduction strategies
Sentinel Asia :
Sentinel Asia is the collaboration between space
agencies and disaster management agencies.
Observation
Communication Satellite
Space Agency
Utilization
Disaster
Management
Agencies
Earth Observation Satellite
Transmission
User Expansion
Value-added
Governmental
Local
Organization
Governmental
@
Information
(ADRC members) Organization
End User
Disaster Information
Sharing (Web)
Human Network
Capacity Building・ Outreach
Sentinel Asia
THEOS (Thailand)
WINDS (Japan)
IRS (India)
FORMOSAT
ALOS (Japan)
(Taiwan, China)
Joint Project Team Member: Australia, Brunei, Fiji,
Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, SOPAC, etc.
KOMPSAT
(Korea)
Tsunami
Users
ADRC also requested the activation to the
International Charter – Space and Major Disasters,
and AIT has worked as the Project Manager to
product the flood images in Thailand, Cambodia,
Vietnam and Mynmar since Oct 2011
Volcano
eruption
Earthquake
Flood
Wildfire
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http://sentinel.tksc.jaxa.jp/
https://sentinel.tksc.jaxa.jp/sentinel2/libraryControl.action
Request ID(To be filled ADRC by )Please fill the
form and send it to ADRC
+81-78-262-5546 (Fax) or sarequest@adrc.asia
(E-mail)
Before
Emergency Observation after Great East Japan
multi - Global Navigation Satellite
System (multi - GNSS)
Pointing, Navigation and Timing (PNT) satellite
technology has a big potential to be applied for socioeconomic development as well as disaster risk reduction
in the Pacific,
including
・ GPS, U.S.A.
・ GLONASS, Russia
・ Compass satellite constellation, China
・ Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), Japan
・ Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS),
India
Call for Application：JAXA’s Multi-GNSS
Joint Experiment 2011 and next year
Ten joint experiment will be selected to
•
Demonstrate the improvement of the availability and accuracy
by using Multi-GNSS including QZSS
2) Explore new GNSS application in various application field such
as Disaster mitigaion, Machine control, Surveying, Mapping
and others by using more satellite positioning service.
http://www.satnavi.jaxa.jp/e/news/qz1109222_e.html
Regional Cooperative Mechanism on Disaster
Monitoring and Early Warning, Particularly Drought
Aims: Provide space-based technical tools,
focused on drought, and eventually incorporate other
types of disasters, beginning with floods.
Priority Cooperation Areas:
• Establishing the Standards and Procedures for data sharing and
integration
• Harmonizing modeling systems for drought monitoring,
including integration of multi-satellite and platform data
• Creating a regional drought vulnerability database as part of the
National Drought Profiles
• Continuing capacity building activities, especially to make use
of available satellite resources for monitoring and early warning
http://www.drrgateway.net/
Tools
•Search/sort: policies, legislation, frameworks, strategies
and national plans in the region
•Select a country/subregion/sector or issue and view an
ever expanding collection of relevant publications, studies
and initiatives
•Information of DRR, socio-economic and others
•Get updates on events/news through feeds and email
Networking and online writing
•Build a network of similar minded experts.
•View information on regional networks and
intergovernmental mechanisms.
•Contribute to the disaster risk reduction discussion by
moderating and participating in online collaborative writing.
Sub-regional intergovernmental
bodies:
/Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN) DRR Portal
/Mekong River Commission
/Pacific Islands Applied GeoScience
Commission (SOPAC)
/Pacific Disaster Net
/South Asian Association For
Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
/South Asian Disaster Knowledge
Network
Thank you for your kind
attention.
For further information, please visit our website at:
<http://www.unescap.org>
Backup
Satellite Imagery Training for building
Disaster Resilience in Pacific
Needs: Disaster preparedness and risk reduction management, using the satellite
imagery in the specific vulnerability in the Pacific countries.
Measure: National training in each country
Missions: Country-specific training engaging key stakeholders in the following
countries,
•Koror, Palau
(3- 5 Aug 2011) – 14 participants
•Port Moresby, PNG (8-10 Aug 2011) – 21
•Funafuti, Tuvalu (2- 6 Sept 2011) – 28
•Suva, Fiji
(7- 9 Sept 2011) – 26
Topics:
•Disaster Image Download/Familiarization
•Sentinel Asia (Emergency Observation Request, Image Download, GIS mapping)
•International Disaster Charter (Product Download)
•Lecture
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
Sea Surface Temperature (NOAA website)
Costal Erorison and Extention
Disater Management (Japan’s Institution, Regulation, Measures and recent
Dsiaster)
Sentinel Asia Project
• ESCAP is supporting the Sentinel Asia project which is a
voluntary basis initiative led by the Asia-Pacific Regional
Space Agency Forum (APRSAF) to support disaster
management activities in Asia and the Pacific by
applying WEB-GIS and Remote Sensing technology.
• Since September 2011, Sentinel Asia has been providing
flood images and products to the Philippines, Cambodia,
Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar
(https://sentinel.tksc.jaxa.jp/sentinel2/emobSelect.action?subset_na
me=Emergency%20Observation)
• Cooperation with the International Disaster Charter
(http://www.disasterscharter.org/home)
Satellite Imagery Training for building
Disaster Resilience in Pacific
Further Needs and Intent of support:
1. National emergency communications systems (4 countries)
2. Building national baseline information and imagery database
such as hazard monitoring,
climate induced hazard
participants
monitoring, development planning (4)
3. Real time provision of post-disaster imagery (4)
4. Specialized training such as the coastal zone management Case
studies on satellite imagery usages such as land planning,
public works, energy/electricity, health, agricultural, and
infrastructure including Information and Communication
Technology (4)
5. Regional advisory service for sustainable land use development
planning (1)
6. E-government applications for Disaster Risk Reduction (1)
Ref: Dr. Tomoji Takasu, Tokyop University @ 2nd asia Oceania GNSS Workshop