Slide: 13rd WGCapD Meeting – Derhadum, India – April 23-25

Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Capacity Building

at CRECTEALC, Campus Mexico

Jesus A. GonzalezCRECTEALC/INAOE

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Agenda

IntroductionObjectivesScopeCurrent statusOpportunitiesWay forward

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• Describe the CRECTEALC’s Campus Mexico capabilities in Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems– Make them available to the community through WG-CapD

• Look for the possibility to start a Project or to be involved in a Project of the WG-CapD community

Objectives

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• WG-CapD and related groups

Scope

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• CRECTEALC at a Glance– 2 Campi

o Brasilo Mexico

– General Secretaryo Dr. Sergio Camacho

– Campus Brasil Directoro Dr. Thelma Krugo Dr. Jose Guichard

– Courses offeredo Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systemso Satellite Communications

Introduction

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• 10 years offering this 3 modules, 1 year course• Course on Moodle Platform (work in progress)• 3 Modules

1. Remote Sensing (theory & practice)Introduction (theory)

Image Analysis and Interpretation

Photogrammetry

2. Geographic Information Systems (theory & practice)Introduction

GPS (field work)

Spatial Databases

Web Services

Photogrammetry

3. Application Project

Current status

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• Professors (RS & GIS)– Remote Sensing

o Beatriz Floreso Genaro Oliverao Hayde Peregrinao Sergio Camachoo Jose Guichardo Jesus A. Gonzalez

– Geographic Information Systemso Beatriz Floreso Jerjes Molinao Emmanuel Bolaños

– Application Projecto All professors are advisors depending on the Project topic

Current status

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• Remote Sensing Research & Applications– Creation of Classification Algorithms

o Finding transition regions from satellite imageso Satellite image classification using context information

– Satellite Image Classificationo Proprietary SW & Open source

– Spatial Data Mining for satellite image classification algorithms

– Applications such as (with our students):o Finding hot points (possible fire spots)o Floods monitoringo Changes detection (i.e. vegetation)

Current status

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• Geographic Information Systems Research & Applications– Spatial Data Mining

o Finding vegetation patternso Graph based mining with spatial relations

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• Courses Web Platform in Moodle– Remote Sensing already in Moodle

o Still requires making classes videos To make it completely virtual

– Geographic Information Systems already in Moodleo Requires videos as well

– Photogrammetry migrating to Moodle

– Plan to prepare Disasters Management Module

Current status

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• Preparing Short Courses (work in progress)– Remote Sensing

o Theory (introduction)o Satellite Image Analysiso Photogrammetry

– Geographic Information Systemso Theory (introduction)o Using Mapso GIS Projects Generation (thematic maps)o Field work and the use of GPSo QGIS

– GNSS

Current status

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• Current projects– Design of satellite image classification algorithms– Spatial data mining– The use of remote sensing to predict the epidemiology of

the Chagas Diseaseo Collaboration

Mexican Space Agency CICESE (Research Center) Secretaría de Salud (Mexican Health Ministry) Guadalajara University INAOE / CRECTEALC

– Participation in EOPOWER (described by Dr. Sergio Camacho and in other presentations)

Current status / Opportunities

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• Project Proposals– Taking images with drone technology for disasters

management applications– Big Data Technology to Analyze Satellite Images

Opportunities

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• Drone Technology– Multidisciplinary– Remote sensing technology

o Photogrammetryo Image Analysis

– Geographic Information Systemso Route design (for image sampling)o Products creation (thematic maps)

– GNSSo Use of location sensors

– Artificial Intelligenceo Machine Learning & Pattern Recognitiono Robotics

– Applicationo Disasters management

Opportunities

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• Big Data– Design algorithms to analyze large amounts of data

o Set of images in case of disastero Time is importanto For local events such as floods

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• Get more involved with WG-CapD• Make Project proposals in conjunction with WC-CapD

– i.e. drones, big data– Others related with the WG-CapD needs

• Prepare a RS & GIS course for Mesoamerica?– Similar to the one in Africa

• Participate with other initiatives to prepare an online course with videos (virtual learning)– Spanish– English

Way forward

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Questions

Thank you!