REMOTE SENSING AND GEO-INFORMATION SYSTEM APPLICATION in NEMA

MONGOLIAN GOVERNMENT REGULATORY AGENCY THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Ariundalai.DColonel, Head of Communication and

Early Warning division

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Content

1. Background

2. Disaster types of Mongolia

3. Usage of Geo-portal in Mongolia

4. Introduction of Emergency management and warning center

5. Challenges of using Geo-DRM

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BackgroundArea - 1.565.000 km2

(603.909 sq mi)Population - 2.9 million

Capital city - Ulaanbaatar50% of the population

the 19th largest country in the world

Provinces – 21

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Type of disasters and hazards

Natural disastersClimatic hazardous phenomena

− Severe snowfall

− Dzud

− Dust storm

− Flood

− Steppe and forest fire

− Desertification

− Thunderstorm

Geological threats

− Earthquake

− Landslides

Biological threats

− Spread of detrimental rodents

− Human infectious diseases

− Livestock or animal infectious diseases

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Manmade disasters− Technological accidents

− Industrial accidents

− Traffic accidents

− Leakage of chemical and radiological substances

− Explosion

− Building fire

Social

− Public disorder

− Terrorist attack

Disaster types in Mongolia

• Most common disaster types: drought, flood, dzud, snow and dust storms, forest and steppe fires.

• Type of disasters in Mongolia depends on season.

– Dzud - from December to March,

– Dust storms during April to May,

– forest and steppe fire during March to October

– Drought from June to August.

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Number of disasters2005-2013

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Human loss2005-2013

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The number of dead livestock

Main reason of huge losses are dzud followed by drought.

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9.7 million livestock dead from disaster

of dzud

In 2013, our 3 officer participated in training course on capacity building programme on space technology and GIS applications for disaster risk reduction.

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Server room Geo-portal server

Usage of Geo-portal in Mongolia

Geo-portal was installed in our server.

technical specification:Dell power edge T410CPU: Intel Xeon 2.40Ghz (16CPUs)RAM: 4096mbOS: Windows server 2008

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We are using the Geo-DRM which has been provided by ESCAP environmental database.

for example- land use- ecosystem- Forest- soil- groundwater- fodder resources- province’s border- grassland- specially protected area

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Map of fodder resources

Map of groundwater

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Disaster early warning system

Mongolian government is co-implementing South Korean communications provider KT project of Disaster Early Warning System in 2014.

Disaster Early Warning System using the GIS and satellite communication.

Dissemination of warning message using the GIS

Prevention of disaster risk using GIS

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General structure of disaster early

warning system

When occur the disaster Early Warning System will disseminate warning messages to public automatically through TV, FM radio, siren towers, cellular phone.

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disaster

1560 siren towers with satellite installed in Ulaanbaatar city. Also warning

devices installed on the Televisions and FM radios.

Challenges of using Geo-DRM

• Lack of trained officials at local level

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