Draft Copy of the Work Paper of Chia Tomukum, Beyoko Nganda Valentine, from Cameroon for Paper Presentation at the 7th Edition of the International Congress GeoTunis, Tunisia, 08 to 12 April, 2013.

Title of the Research: Challenges and Opportunities of Using Integrated Data Viewer for Disaster Mitigation in Non Space Faring Countries of the Less Developed World: IAA – IGMASS Projects in Africa. Names of the Researcher: Tomukum Chia Researchers Scientific Title: Academician Institution where he Works: International Academy of Astronautics. Research Project Summary: Abstract The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics (RACTs) has successfully started the practical

implementation of a wide – scaled project, with the creation of the International Global Monitoring Aerospace System (IGMASS) – the system

for efficient and sufficient forecasting of destructive ecological disasters, natural disasters, and manmade catastrophes on the basis of

combining all available monitoring information from the Earths ionosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere and outer space. It will unify all

monitoring potentials (space, air, and ground), facilities in member states and organizations/institutions in Africa and globally to forecast

such dangerous and high costly events in Africa and beyond. The international committee on the IGMASS product implementation is a collective

executive body which is functioning under the aegis and framework if IAA and RACTs, with the purpose of drawing a wide public attention to the IGMASS

project both in the countries participants and on the international level: profile scientists and experts from all over the world; consolidation, searching

new ideas and technical decisions in the field of forecasting natural and manmade emergency situations/ early warning. The requirement for a steady

sustainable development of world community without risk depends on reliable and timely information for early warning. The use of space technology

with its various applications offers a unique perspective of the earth, its resources and human impact upon it. Africa is in a cross road and find itself in a

dilemma in an attempt to increase and better its developmental path. Satellite data receiving center stationed in Africa would be the heart of

developmental initiatives in the continent if allow to operate continuously at a high level for a long time and provide all concern sectors of African satellite

images and products on the basis that allow an increase in the growth potential of the African region in a whole. The usage of ERS data from space will

provide the possibility of obtaining up-to-date and objective information about the underlying surface, natural and manmade objects, environment,

emergencies and natural phenomenon. Recognizing the significant role of space technology for the attainment of rapid sustainable socio-economical

development, Africa need to have or share their knowledge and space assets to the needy in order and close up the digital gap. Space application can be

the best alternative to reduce vulnerability and risk that is retarding sustainable development in Africa. In response to the growing needs of developing

countries, Space application will stimulate the development of new technologies that are the major keys to the consolidation of industrial capabilities as

well as Educational stimulation for disaster risk reduction. Africans need these stimulations to go beyond the “easy answers” and pursue the knowledge

required for a challenging rewarding life because space activities implemented through visionaries and pioneers has helped to create the concept of one

world. The paper seeks to examine the way forward for Africa to achieve its sustainable development Vis-à-vis the post 2015 MDGs, defined by the United

Nations through projects initiated with International Academy of Astronautics and International Global Monitoring Systems of Systems. The mission of the

IAA – IGMASS Project is focus on the Challenges and Opportunities of Using Integrated Data Viewer for Disaster Mitigation in Non Space Faring Countries

of the Less Developed World is a Pilot and promising initiate for the global community as disasters are nature miracles that can be analyze and monitored

by scientific methods. The paper will elaborate on the relevant data in relation to case studies undertaken within the continent to show case space

technology in sustainable regional development and disaster mitigation initiatives in place and at global level.. The paper seeks to explain how space

application have enabled global cooperation through the lake Chad basin commission in natural disaster mitigation activities and the viewing fostering

peaceful ventures across borders thereby fostering the feelings of a global community and sharing of images from space including satellite imagery

products and services to a wide range of users community. The paper also discusses the institutional arrangements in place to facilitate geospatial

information sharing among African institutions, and when fully operational, the GLOCECOHADIM Initiative will serve as the fuel for the effective

implementation and attainment of the post MDGs after 2015.

Key words: Mitigation, Enabling, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Sustainable Development, Geospatial information.

IAA Academicians, Dr.Jean- Michel Contant Anatoly Perminov,Head of Roscosmos and

Chairs of the IAA IGMASS Project, in Cyprus, 2009,consultative talks: Axis of IAA Development in the Worlld

Focus on

_ New projects of global scale Disaster Management IGMASS satellite constellation, Data Exchange in Remote

Sensing, Earthquake Prediction, Life Science spinoff Telemedicine for Africa

_ IAA Sustainable Program for small satellites for disaster management,traininhgs,and sustainable Development:

- Cameroon

- Nigeria

- Tunisia

- Kenya

- Ghana

- Vietnam Introduction: IAA – IGMASS Project Design, Development and Prospects of Using Integrated Data Viewer for Disaster Mitigation and for Monitoring of Global phenomena Background information and Organizational Support: Natural disasters strike everywhere and at any time without warning, causing damages and human sufferings setting in negative impacts on humanity. Africa is vulnerable and prone to all sorts of natural and manmade hazards. The analogue monitoring systems commonly used in the monitoring seismic activities in Africa is outdated and requires space based assistance in monitoring global phenomena .This flagship initiative of IAA-IGMASS Project in Africa aims to promote the use of integrated data viewer for disaster mitigation in non space faring countries of the less develop world. This initiative will combine Earth and Space based Data Sources and develop an Integrated International Global Monitoring Aerospace Systems of Systems to benefit Africa and the global community. This will be achieving with a large community of operational users. Clearly, this initiative aims to build and unit a global monitoring capabilities at all levels (ground, air and space), to support the UN mission on the international strategy for disaster management, UN-ISDR, UN-SPIDER and UN-OOSA.

Fig. 1. Impacts of Natural Disasters in 1992-2012 (according to UN-ISDR report of June 13, 2012) in the world.

Fig 2. IMPACT BY TOP TEN (10) COUNTRIES

Fig 3 (IGMASS) Project: Identifying GLOBAL THREATS TO THE EARTH AND TO HUMANITY

Natural fires Industrial accidents, Emergencies and catastrophes,

Landslides, mudflow, avalanches

Anomalous solar activity Space debris Asteroid and Comet hazard

Volcano activity Tsunamis Earthquakes

Floods and Droughts

Fig. 4 The Seismo Tectogenic conception

Project Goals: The IAA - IGMASS Project is to create the “System of Systems”, which has to integrate both existing and future national and international space remote sensing, communication and relay, weather and navigation systems (or allocated data and organizational resources), as well as appropriate air-born and ground-based facilities, including specialized infrastructure for global forecasting and early warning about natural and man-made disasters Earth and space origin.

The IAA - IGMASS Project provides unique opportunity to unify efforts of the world community to develop new joint strategy of peaceful space exploration, which is focused on providing secure, risk free economy and sustainable development of humanity in the XXI-st century. The development and use of these technologies proves another great opportunity and importance of expanding inter-regional partnership in the area of disaster mitigation and management. This is because disasters have no frontiers and the only certainty about the future is that it is uncertain. Significant potentials of scientific research undertaken by the International Academy of Astronautics through its various studies and position papers, which makes use of the already existing experiences and tries to go one or two steps further, especially in the wide field of applications, together with the International Global Aerospace System of Systems whose concept was officially approved by participants of the First International Specialized Symposium “Space and Global Security of Humanity” held in Limassol, Cyprus, on November,2-4,2009.This scientific forum was a major stage in practical promotion of the IGMASS initiative, which enjoyed an active support of the International Academy of Astronautics and the world participating community. It passed a preliminary multistage scientific approbation at a series of international forums under the United Nations auspices and was approved y distinguished scientists and experts from leading space powers. Information and organizational assistance in advocating the IGMASS project is provided by the Russian Federal Space Agency, which has recently applied to join the International Charter for Space and Natural Disasters, and the Znanie International Association which enjoys a general consultative status in ECOSOC,UNIDO and the UN department of public information. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation provides political support to the project according to the Russian foreign policy guidelines to promote the development of international cooperation in peaceful space exploration for global security and sustainable development. The implementation of the project in the Africa region will help protect the lives and health of millions of people, save financial and material resources, develop scientific, technical and technological potentials of space rocket industries of participating countries. It will also create new research and production facilities and jobs for the large-scale project. In the final end IAA – IGMASS project will offer a reliable tool to decrease global and regional risks and repel threats of the current transition period from industrial to information society. Therefore, it is imperative for the global community to formulate in the nearest future a detailed organization and international legal base for project implementation so that it is used to gradually pool information, navigation, and telecom resources of all countries into “common planetary information security space”- global emergencies monitoring and forecasting. On the UN level the IGMASS was officially presented at the 47th session of the Scientific and Technical subcommittee of the United Nations on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space held in Vienna on February,8-19.2010 (UN document A/AC.105/958 of 11.03.2010). The session drew the attention of the world community to the IGMASS Project, as well as cooperation prospects for its implementation under the aegis of the United Nations and its involved institutions. The documents provided, in particular, for drafting and signing of five memorandums of

understanding with the leaderships of UN-OOSA, GEOSS, ISPRP as well as experts from more than 40 countries of all continents. Many of them expressed readiness to join the “International Committee for IGMASS Project Implementation”, and a special taskforce research on elimination of natural calamity and disasters aftermath. Thus IAA – IGMASS Project is to counter natural calamities and emergencies at global level and it pilot phase in Africa is a road map into a safe and secure future for all humanity.

Fig 5 Seismic Forecast Monitoring GIS-portal The project will handle complex solution of the task to provide early warning and forecasts of devastating natural phenomena and manmade disasters. This is the start of a new horizon for a common strategy of space exploration aimed at promoting environmental safe and socially

sustainable development of the entire world community on the basis of the eternal value of life and property rights preservation on the universe. Committee Main Tasks: Project Management. One of the main results of the IAA - IGMASS Project promotion was established in July, 2010 with its own governing body - “International Committee on the IGMASS Project Implementation” (ICPI) . Mainstream purpose of such step was drawing public attention to the Project at national, regional and international levels, consolidation of profile scientists and experts as well as enterprises for the IGMASS concept realization, searching both contemporary ideas, technical solutions, administrative and financial recourses for the system creation .This involves political, and juridical support of the Project, coordination of the project state participants collaboration, management of scientific research and engineering on the international level, technical, financial, and organizational supporting and promoting of the projects at all steps of IGMASS Life Cycle. Members of the constituent meeting unanimously agreed to approve the Regulation on International Public Committee on the IGMASS project Implementation, Elect Professor, Anatoly Permivov (Roscosmos, Russia), as the Chairman of the International Public Committee on IGMASS Project Implementation, Co- Chairs ; Dr. Jean – Michel Contant, (Secretary General, IAA, France), Dr. Yuri S. Alekeseev, Head of the National Space Agency of Ukraine, Prof. Talgat Musabayev Chairman of the National Space Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and Prof. Mikhail V. Myasnikovich, Chairman of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus, Prof. Juris Ekmanis, President of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. SEE ATTACHED IPIC ORGAIGRAM

The IAA - IGMASS Project Objectives:

- Maintenance of geophysical, ecological and social- economic security in national, regional and global formats

- Forecasting about natural disasters and man-made catastrophes through its global and effective prediction based on

consolidation and integrated application of space, airborne and ground –based facilities

- Auspices to settle global humanitarian issues (illiteracy via distant education, protection of cultural heritage, catastrophe

medicine, etc.), gradual forming on this basis “global security informational field”

- International Committee on the IGMASS Project Implementation

Fig. 6 Integrated Data Viewer System for Monitoring

Evaluation of long term climatic data in the Lake Chad Basin in Africa The data (see Appendix 1) has been prepared according to scientific standards. These previous analysis shows that the records have sufficient quality. Different methods are based on daily, monthly and yearly data subscribing the condition and change of climate

IGMASS Promotion at International Level Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine (2007, 2009); Moscow, Korolev, Russia; Shanghai, China (2008); Versailles,

France (2009); Rome, Italy; Haifa, Israel; Paris, France; Moscow and Kazan, Russia; Donetsk and Kiev, Ukraine; Beijing, China; Bonn, Germany; Buea, Cameroon (2010); Melbourne, Australia; Yerevan, Armenia; Madrid, Spain; St. Petersburg , Russia, Istanbul, Turkey, Nairobi, Kenya, Hanoi, Vietnam,

Daejong, Korea (2011), Singapore (2012); Yevpatoria Ukraine (2012) IGMASS presentations at profile interstate scientific forums Official presentation at International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Glasgow, Scotland (2008)

Appointment of the IGMASS Project Manager (IAA) and IGMASS expert working group initiation Paris, France (2009) Presentation of preliminary results of IAA working group Daejong, Korea (2009) Initiation/current activity of the International Committee on the IGMASS Project Implementation (ICPI) Limassol, Cyprus (2009); Riga, Latvia; Prague, Czech Republic (2010); Madrid, Spain and Cape Town, South Africa

(2011) Approval of the IGMASS Project by the participants of profile political summits Washington, USA (2010); Yalta, Ukraine (2012)

At 49th COPUOS Scientific and Technical Subcommittee session, Russian Federation has presented Working Paper (A/AC.105/C.1/2012/CRP.23 dated 07.02.2012): «Project to create the International Global Monitoring Aerospace System as a forward-looking new initiative in predicting and mitigating the consequences of natural and man-made disasters»

Fig 8 Natural disasters are increasing in number and frequency, and affect most countries in Africa.

The IGMASS Project Pilot

Ground Monitoring Facilities Seismic stations Contact and distant ground monitoring facilities (detectors)

IGMASS-PD Project: operation structure :Ground-based detectors data Navigation Below

Modeling of predicted events and processes for monitored objects Data proceeding center National Geophysical Center RSC SC Astronomical NEO monitoring net Correlation center Data analytical center SPATIAL DATA ACTUALIZATION SECTOR Short-term Seismic Forecast Monitoring Subsystem •Remote sensing spacecraft •Navigation spacecraft •Weather spacecraft

•Topographic and geodesic support spacecraft Data obtained from spacecraft s •Network of navigation systems receivers in VLF band •Underground proton measurement stations •Gravimetric measurement stations •Ionosphere tomography stations •Telluric measurement stations

Data obtained from ground facilities •About Earth rotation parameters

•About Helios- and Helios-physical parameters Data obtained from Russian and international services Powerful Earthquakes parameters

(potential zone, expected date and magnitude)

Safety/Mission-critical Objects Operations Control Subsystem Databases Space/out-of-space Threats Early Warning

Subsystem International Space Observation Network (ISON) International “Space weather” centres National “Space weather” center Safety/Mission-Critical objects hazardous status change parameters 1 2 3 4 Territory-distributed prediction monitoring data archive 1 2 3 4 Dynamical multi-criteria estimations of threats EMERCOM situational centers Planetary radars International “Space weather” centers

IAA – IGMASS PROJECTS FOR DISASTER MITIGATION AND EMERGENCFY RESPONSE

IGMASS-PD Project: Seismic-forecasting Methodology

IGMASS-Project: Seismic-forecasting Methodology

Economic profitability of the IAA - IGMASS Project It can be achieved by the following means: EMERGENCY LOSS PREVENTION, FORECASTING MONITORING DATA SALE COST IMPROVEMENT ON CRITICAL OBJECTS SAFE MAINTENANCE and RECOVERY.

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IAA – IGMASS PROJECTS FOR DISASTER MITIGATION AND EMERGENCFY RESPONSE