GC42C:
Use of Earth Observations in Mitigating Major Environmental Challenges in South and Southeast Asia I

Submit an Abstract to this Session
Possible Alternate Format: If this session is allocated an oral session, the convener can choose to have lightning style presentations that are quicker and more focused than a traditional session. Learn more


Session ID#: 32537

Session Description:
Growing population pressures, coupled with increased variability of floods and droughts are increasing the complexity of resource allocation and other environmental decision making in the South and Southeast Asia regions. This session focuses on basic and applied research efforts in the regions that incorporate Earth observations to generate tools, products, and services, 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. Submissions are welcome from researchers and practitioners focusing on addressing these societal challenges for the South and Southeast Asia regions.
Primary Convener:  Walter Lee Ellenburg II, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, United States
Conveners:  Krishna Vadrevu, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Birendra Bajracharya, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal and Peeranan Towashiraporn, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand
Chairs:  Birendra Bajracharya, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, Peeranan Towashiraporn, Asian Disaster Perpardness Center, SERVIR-Mekong & Geospatial Information, Bangkok, Thailand and Walter Lee Ellenburg II, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Walter Lee Ellenburg II, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, United States
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Informing Drought Preparedness and Response with the South Asia Land Data Assimilation System (211331)
Benjamin F Zaitchik1, Debjani Ghatak2, Mir A Matin3, Faisal M. Qamer4, Bhupesh Adhikary5, Birendra Bajracharya4, Jim Nelson6, Sarva Teja Pulla7 and Walter Lee Ellenburg8, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)IMCS, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (3)ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, (5)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (6)Brigham Young University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Provo, UT, United States, (7)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (8)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Localizing drought monitoring products to support agricultural climate service advisories in South Asia (238854)
Faisal M. Qamer1, Mir A Matin2, Nabin Kumar Yadav3, Birendra Bajracharya1, Benjamin F Zaitchik4, Walter Lee Ellenburg5, Timothy J Krupnik6 and Ghulam Hussain7, (1)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Dhaka, Bangladesh, (7)International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Model-Aided Altimeter-Based Water Level Forecasting System in Mekong River (243266)
Chi-Hung Chang1, Hyongki Lee1, Faisal Hossain2, Modurodoluwa Adeyinka Okeowo1, Senaka Bandara Basnayake3, Susantha Jayasinghe3, David S Saah4, Eric Ross Anderson5 and Euiho Hwang6, (1)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, (3)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (4)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Pleasanton, United States, (5)NASA-SERVIR, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, United States, (6)K-water Institute, Water Resources Satellite Research Center, Daejeon, South Korea
Application of Virtual Rain and Stream Gauge Information Service for Improved Flood Early Warning System in Lower Mekong Countries (234283)
Senaka Bandara Basnayake1, Susantha Jayasinghe1, Chinaporn Meechaiya1, Kel Nicolas Markert2, Hyongki Lee3, Peeranan Towashiraporn4, Eric Ross Anderson5 and Modurodoluwa Adeyinka Okeowo3, (1)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, United States, (3)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (4)Asian Disaster Perpardness Center, SERVIR-Mekong & Geospatial Information, Bangkok, Thailand, (5)University of Alabama, NASA/SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Web-Based Tools for Data Visualization and Decision Support for South Asia (284209)
Norm Jones1, Jim Nelson2, Sarva Teja Pulla3, Daniel P Ames1, Michael Antonio Souffront Alcantara4, Cedric H David5, Benjamin F Zaitchik6, Patrick N Gatlin7 and Mir A Matin8, (1)Brigham Young University, Civil and Construction Engineering, Provo, United States, (2)Brigham Young University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Provo, UT, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (7)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (8)ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal
Assessing landscape hydroperiods across the Mekong Basin using multi-scale remote sensing to understand water-energy-food tradeoffs (209279)
Nathan Torbick, Mitti Labs Limited, Mumbai, India, William Salas, Applied Geosolutions, LLC, Durham, NH, United States, Jiaguo Qi, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States and Xiaodong Huang, Applied Geosolutions, Newmarket, NH, United States
In-season wheat sown area mapping for Afghanistan using high resolution optical and RADAR images in cloud platform (267267)
Mir A Matin1, Varun Tiwari1, Faisal M. Qamer2, Nabin Kumar Yadav3, Walter Lee Ellenburg4, Birendra Bajracharya2, Krishna Vadrevu5, Begum Rabeya Rushi6, Noorullah Stanikzai7, Waheedullah Yusafi1 and Haqiq Rahmani1, (1)ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science Division, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (7)Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock, Kabul, Afghanistan
Remote Sensing of Forest Loss and Human Land Use to Predict Biodiversity Impacts in Myanmar (Invited) (281398)
Grant Connette, Smithsonian Institution, Front Royal, United States, Peter Leimgruber, Smithsonian Institution, Front Royal, VA, United States, Qiongyu Huang, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States; Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, VA, United States and Melissa Songer, Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, United States
National forest cover monitoring in mainland South and Southeast Asia: method development and capacity building (245081)
Alexandra Tyukavina1, Peter Potapov2, Matthew Hansen2, Yamile Talero3, Svetlana Turubanova2, Jeffrey Pickering2, Amy Hudson Pickens2, Nguyen Hanh Quyen4 and Marija Spirovska Kono5, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (2)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (5)SilvaCarbon Southeast Asia Program, Bangkok, Thailand
The Regional Land Cover Monitoring System: Building regional capacity through innovative land cover mapping approaches (295559)
David Saah1, Karis Tenneson2, Quyun Nguyen Hanh3, Aekkapol Aekakkararungroj4, Khun San Aung3, Joshua Goldstein5, Peter Guild Cutter4, Paul Maus2, Kel Nicolas Markert6, Eric Ross Anderson7, Walter Lee Ellenburg8, Ate Poortinga9, Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson10, Krishna Vadrevu11, Peter Potapov12, Kittiphong Phongsapan3, Farrukh Chishtie3, Nicholas Clinton13 and David Ganz3, (1)University of San Francisco, Environmental Science, San Francisco, CA, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (4)Asian Disaster Prepapredness Center, Climate Chnage and Climate Risk Management, Bangkok, Thailand, (5)US Forest Service - GTAC, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (6)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, United States, (7)NASA-SERVIR, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, United States, (8)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (9)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (10)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, (11)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science Division, Huntsville, AL, United States, (12)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (13)Google Inc., Mountain View, United States

See more of: Global Environmental Change