GC22C:
Use of Earth Observations in Mitigating Major Environmental Challenges in South and Southeast Asia I

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Session ID#: 15469

Session Description:
Changing climate and increased population pressures are increasing the complexity of resource allocation and other environmental decision making in the Himalayan region. This session focuses on basic and applied research efforts in the region that incorporate Earth observations and products to generate tools and products to support the environmental decision making by governmental institutions, non-governmental agencies, and the general public.  The major challenges facing the region are particularly acute in food security and agriculture, water resources management, disaster risk reduction, and rapidly changing land use and ecosystems. These challenges are exacerbated when viewed through the lens of climate change. Submissions are welcome from researchers focusing on addressing these societal challenges for the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region.
Primary Convener:  William L Crosson, Universities Space Research Association at NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Mir A Matin, ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal and Birendra Bajracharya, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal
Chairs:  Peeranan Towashiraporn, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, Eric Ross Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States, David Ganz, Asian Disaster Reduction Center, Tokyo, Japan and Ashutosh S Limaye, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Eric Ross Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Virtual Rain and Stream Gauge Information Service to Support Effective Decision Making in Lower Mekong Countries (Invited) (160203)
Senaka Bandara Basnayake1, Susantha Jayasinghe1, Chusit Apirumanekul2, Jayaram Pudashine2, Eric Ross Anderson3, Peter Guild Cutter4,5, David Ganz6 and Peeranan Towashiraporn7, (1)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (2)Stockholm Environment Institute Asia Centre, Bangkok, Thailand, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (5)Asian Disaster Prepapredness Center, Climate Chnage and Climate Risk Management, Bangkok, Thailand, (6)SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (7)Asian Disaster Perpardness Center, SERVIR-Mekong & Geospatial Information, Bangkok, Thailand
Towards Developing a Regional Drought Information System for Lower Mekong (Invited) (157695)
Rishiraj Dutta1, Susantha Jayasinghe2, Senaka Bandara Basnayake2, Chusit Apirumanekul3, Jayaram Pudashine3, Stephanie L Granger4, Konstantinos Andreadis5 and Narendra N Das6, (1)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR-Mekong & Climate Resilience, Bangkok, Thailand, (2)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (3)Stockholm Environment Institute Asia Centre, Bangkok, Thailand, (4)NASA Western Water Applications Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group, Pasadena, CA, United States
Stream Flow Prediction and Flood Mapping in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya with the ICIMOD Water Resources App Portal (IWRAP) (Invited) (150068)
Jim Nelson1, Daniel P Ames2, Norm Jones2 and Michael Souffront3, (1)Brigham Young University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Provo, UT, United States, (2)Brigham Young University, Civil and Construction Engineering, Provo, United States, (3)Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States
Opportunities and Challenges for Hydrological Analysis in the HKH: Emerging experiences from the South Asia Land Data Assimilation System (Invited) (128714)
Benjamin F Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, Debjani Ghatak, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Sujay V Kumar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Frederick S Policelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States and Paul J Block, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States
APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING FOR FOREST MANAGEMENT IN NEPAL (199401)
Birendra Bajracharya, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal and Mir A Matin, ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal
Recent shifts in Himalayan vegetation activity trends in response to climatic change and environmental drivers (134140)
Niti B. Mishra, University of Wisconsin La Crosse, La Crosse, WI, United States and Kumar P Mainali, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Collaborative GIS for flood susceptibility mapping: An example from Mekong river basin of Viet Nam (154272)
Bui Thanh, VNU University of Science, Faculty of Geography, Ha Noi, Vietnam
Application of Jason-2/3 Altimetry for Virtual Gauging and Flood Forecasting in Mekong Basin (135367)
Hyongki Lee1, Faisal Hossain2, Modurodoluwa Adeyinka Okeowo1, Luong Duc Nguyen3, Du Duong Bui4 and Chi-Hung Chang5, (1)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, (3)National University of Civil Engineering, Department of Environmental Technology and Management, Hanoi, Vietnam, (4)National Center for Water Resources Planning and Investigation, Hanoi, Vietnam, (5)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, United States

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