Virany SENGTIANTHR Director of Remote Sensing Center (RSC)Water Resources and Environment Research Institute (WERI) Water Resources and Environment Administration (WREA)Prime Minister’s Office (PMO)

Country Report

Emergency Observation Report & Utilization of Sentinel Asia

4th Joint Project Team Meeting (JPTM)for Sentinel Asia STEP 2

12th-14th July, 2011, Putrajaya, Malaysia

Outline

Ketsana tropical storm-Flooded 30 September 2009, Attapu

1. Introduce to RSC2. Hazards and Disaster in

Laos3. Main Activities 4. Utilization of Sentinel Asia5. Expected /Request to

Sentinel Asia

Luangprabang, 23 Mrach, 2010

Introduce to RSC

Remote Sensing Center-RSC, Water Resources and Environment Research Institute, Water Resources and Environment Administration under the Prime Minister’s Office. One of the main duties of RSC is to be the main coordinator and manager of the Environment and Natural Disaster using RS and GIS at the national level.

It is coordinating with other relevant institutions such as the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology on warning in Lao PDR, the Department of Water Resources on Water Resources and flood monitoring. and the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) for the policies on disaster management, Ministry of Agriculture and Forest for the policies on the forest management and others activities such as forest cover monitoring and forest fire etc,

Vision

To be a center of the national focal point on the applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in natural resources and environment as well as natural disaster research.

Hazards and Disaster in Laos

I. Natural Disaster- Flood (river flood and flash flood)- Drought- Windstorm- Landslide - Earthquakes (Bokeo, Luang Prabang province )- Epidemic ( human and animal disease)- Pest

II. Man-made- UXO- Fire (Forest fire, Urban fire)

Main Activities:- Emergency observation in case of major

disasters by ALOS + ···- ALOS accepts observation request to JAXA/

ADRC and AIT- Wildfire monitoring by MODIS: Technology

transfer from GIC/AIT- Flood monitoring:- Research/Training/Mini-project for

utilization of satellite image for environment monitoring and disaster monitoring.

- Space Application for Environment-SAFE

Flood Monitoring/ Sentinel Asia

1. RSC, WERI,WREA Responsible for the National Working Group of the flood information in Lao PDR

2. Data sharing between line government agency, international organization (MRCs, WCS, WWF,…) & NUL

3. Monitor and Access the area of flood/real time/before / after

Utilization of Sentinel Asia

Emergency Request:

1. The observation request User Name (UN) and Password (PW), by Sentinel Asia website and submit EOR completed form as well as request to the ADRC/JAXA;

2. Sharing information between line agency and research node such as AIT;

3. Report to the Water Resources and Environment Administration, Prime Minister’s Office.

Request Sentinel Asia in case emergency:Coordinate, Pictures, sharing data information…

Flood Monitoring, 2008

•Laos/GIC-AIT: Flood Hazard Mapping Using ALOS/PALSAR, 2009-2010

Mekong River

HatsayphongLat: 17.8592°

Long: 102.649°

Hatsayphong District, Vientiane

11-15 August 2008

Nongkhai

Available Images

ALOS –PRISM13 September 2006

Champhone District, Savannakhet Province

Field Survey on Ketsana Tropical Storm-Flooded in AttapuProvince, Lao PDR , September 30, 2009.

07 June 2010

City of SamakkheesayAttapu province

Flash Flood June 2011:Few days

Flash Flood, Xiengkhouang Province 26 June, 2011

Flash Flood,Xayabury Province 26 June, 2011

Technical Transfer from GIC/AIT-RSC, 2009-2010

Wildfire Information, 14 March 2010

Overview of the MODIS Fire Information System for Laos The AIT MODIS Fire Information System for Laos is a near real-time automatic system. The structure is very similar to the existing regional system. It consists of Product Generation, Visualization, and Database and Statistical Analysis systems. The system uses the output information, which generated and transferred by the regional system.

http://www.geoinfo.ait.ac.th/mod14/index_lao0.php

Wildfire: Field survey anddissemination

Luangprabang, 23 Mrach, 2010

Discussion, 26 March 2010 Luangprabang, 23 Mrach, 2010

-AIT/RSC-WERO-Area-Village-WREA, -Minister-Report-Policy -

Forest monitoring: HCV

Thapangthong, Savannakhet, Aug 2010

Forest monitoring: The impact activities in the PFA

There are 06 keys indicator concern on Environment in Salavan and Champasak province1./ Biodiversity;2./ Plantation Establishments;3./ Infrastructure Development;4./ Agriculture Encroachment 5./ Soil Erosion

E: 0601284 N: 1643895 / Km 36 Shifting cultivation, date: 15/05/2008

Ban Kasa Noy, Salavan, 09/05/2008

Large Scale Land Clearing for Plantations in PFAs.

Soil Erosion

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Road map of the project (2)� 2010 Sep.: Built up the GPS photos database for Laos

� 2010 Nov. 11-12 : 3rd on-the-job training on land cover mapping on ALOS AVNIR2 data applied for Luang Namtha province for the staffs of RSC and FIPD

� 2010 Nov. 23-26: Achievement report at APRSAF-17 in Melbourne, Australia

� 2011 Apr.: MODIS 250m land cover maps at national level from 2001 to 2010 were generated

� 2011 Jun.: finish SAFE prototype in Laos

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ALOS AVNIR2 land cover map of Khammouaneprovince in 2009

� Acquisition date: 2009 Feb 20� Scene center: 16.93N,

105.06E� Covering: Khammouane

provinceldd h h

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ALOS AVNIR2 land cover map of Luang Nam Thaprovince in 2009

� Acquisition date: 2009 Feb 18� Scene center: 20.91N, 101.68E� Covering: Luang NamTha

province� Validated with GPS Photo

Sentinel Asia: Capacity Building Lao PDR have successful Participated JAXA/Mini-Project/Research by following Topic s :1. JAXA/Mini-project/Research on RS/GIS: Flood Risk Map Using RS&GIS Case Study of Champhone District, Savannakhet Province, Lao PDR, 2006-2007

2. Flood Hazard Mapping using HEC-RAS, Remote Sensing and GIS, Case study of Se Champhone River in Savannakhet, Lao PDR. 2007-2008

3. Flood Hazard Mapping of Nam Ngum River Lao PDR Using RS, GIS and HECRAS, 2008-2009 (M&H/NDMO);

4. Flood Hazard mapping using ALOS/ PALSAR, Hatxayfong District in Vientiane Capital City, 2009-20105. Drought Risk Mapping using Remote Sensing and GISCase Study: Champhone District in Savannakhet Province, Lao PDR.2010-2011.

Sentinel Asia STEP 2 The 4th Sentinel Asia System

Operation Training was held on 10-12 February 2009 in Vientiane- Sponsor by JAXA- Organized by RSC/WERI/WREA- attended by 13 Asia Pacific countries including 6 ASEAN Member States namely Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam.

The 5th Sentinel Asia System Operation Training was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 22 – 26 February 2010.

The 6th SAS Operation Training was held in July, 2010, Bangkok, Thailand..

Next SAS…Lao PDR would like to participate

Expectation / Request to Sentinel Asia

1. There is limited of knowledge on RS , lack of satellite data information/real time disaster we need SA support Satellite image after disaster.

2. Enhancement of National – provincial staff capacity building.

3. Joint Project Research between SA Members/JAXA/ADRC/AIT: Flood, drought, wildfire monitoring and water and carbon evaluation by using satellite data

4. Continue Participate next SA meeting5. RSC Will continue SA-STEP3/APRSAF-18

Thank you very much!Khop jai lai lai!