GC23C:
Use of Earth Observations in Mitigating Major Environmental Challenges in South and Southeast Asia I


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Session ID#: 59081

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; NASA SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States and SERIVR Global Science Team
Conveners:  Peeranan Towashiraporn, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, Birendra Bajracharya, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, Ashutosh S Limaye, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and SERIVR Global Science Team
Primary Liaison:  Walter Lee Ellenburg II, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, United States; NASA SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States and SERIVR Global Science Team
Chairs:  Birendra Bajracharya, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, Walter Lee Ellenburg II, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, United States and SERIVR Global Science Team
OSPA Liaison:  Peeranan Towashiraporn, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand and SERIVR Global Science Team
Index Terms:

1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Integration of Optical, Topographic and RADAR data for Enhanced Land Use Land Cover (LULC) Classification (443977)
Varun Tiwari1,2, Mir Abdul Matin3, Ishaan Kochhar4, Faisal M. Qamer5 and Birendra Bajracharya5, (1)ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Geo-spatial Solutions, Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Geospatial Solutions, Kathmandu, Nepal, (5)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal
Spatial Multi-Criteria Modeling for Habitat Suitability of Flagship Species in Western Himalaya (428576)
Ramesh Silwal1, Vishwas Sudhir Chitale2, Janita Gurung3, Mir Abdul Matin2 and Subrata Nandy4, (1)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Geospatial Solutions, Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Transboundary Landscapes, Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Goernment of India, Forestry and Ecology, Dehradun, India
Using MODIS and Landsat Data to Produce Land Use Land Cover Maps for the Lower Mekong Basin: Implications for Regional Water and Disaster Management (452556)
Joseph Spruce, Science Systems & Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States and John D Bolten, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, United States
Validating the Effectiveness of Treatment on the Productivity of Agricultural Fields in Nepal using Machine Learning Techniques and Space-borne Data (364945)
Ronan Lucey1, Walter Lee Ellenburg II2,3, Robert Griffin4,5 and Udaysankar S Nair3,6, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (2)NASA SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)NASA-SERVIR, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
A novel approach to assess food security and natural capital using cloud-based remote sensing and machine learning: a case study of Nghe An and Thanh Hoa Vietnam. (426345)
Ate Poortinga, Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, Nguyen Hanh Quyen, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, Thanh Hai Pham, Nong Lam University, Forestry, HoChiMinhCity, Vietnam, Farrukh Chishtie, SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, Karis Tenneson, USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Kel Markert, Researcher, Huntsville, United States, Kien Tran, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, Disaster Management Policy and Technology Center, Hanoi, Vietnam, Nicholas Clinton, Google Inc., Mountain View, United States and David Saah, University of San Francisco, Environmental Science, San Francisco, CA, United States
A Tool for Climate Smart Crop Insurance: Combining Farmers’ Pictures of Crops with Dynamic Crop Modeling for Accurate Yield Estimation prior to Harvest (424889)
Bijoy KUMAR Singh1,2, Jaya Kumar1, Dulal Chakrabarti3 and Naveen Kalra3, (1)BKC WeatherSys Pvt. Ltd., Noida, India, (2)Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Self Employed, Noida, India
Application of Regional Drought and Crop Yield Information System to enhance drought monitoring and forecasting in Ninh Thuan Province in Vietnam (396354)
Susantha Jayasinghe1, Farrukh Chishtie2, Nguyen Hanh Quyen1, Biplov Bhandari1, Kostas M Andreadis3, Narendra N Das4, Amor V M Ines5, Kel Markert6, Peeranan Towashiraporn1 and Eric Ross Anderson7, (1)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (2)SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (3)NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, United States, (4)Michigan State University, Department of Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States, (5)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, (6)Researcher, Huntsville, United States, (7)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States
Sub-seasonal to seasonal hydrological prediction in the Hindu Kush – Himalaya (HKH) region with the South Asia Land Data Assimilation System (SALDAS) (436265)
Yifan Zhou1, Ben M Zaitchik2, Ryan Zamora3, Faisal M. Qamer4, Mir Abdul Matin5, Kiran Shakya4, Sujay V Kumar6 and Jim Nelson7, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)Texas A&M University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, (5)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Brigham Young University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Provo, UT, United States
Historical reconstruction and near-term forecasts of surface water in South Asia (437214)
Cedric H David1, Dr. George H. Allen, PhD2, Charlotte Marie Emery1, Mir Abdul Matin3, Jim Nelson4, Norm Jones5, Ben M Zaitchik6, Patrick N Gatlin7 and Walter Lee Ellenburg II8, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, (3)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)Brigham Young University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Provo, UT, United States, (5)Brigham Young University, Civil and Construction Engineering, Provo, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (7)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (8)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, United States
Multi-Objective Calibration Of A Hydrological Model Using Satellite-Based Data For Poorly Gauged Mekong River Basin (460794)
Tien Le Thuy Du1, Hyongki Lee2, Du Duong Bui3, Isberg Kristina4, Susantha Jayasinghe5, Senaka Bandara Basnayake5 and Farrukh Chishtie6, (1)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, United States, (2)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (3)National Center for Water Resources Planning and Investigation, Hanoi, Vietnam, (4)Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden, (5)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (6)SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand
Developing a Landslide Early Warning System for the Rohingya Refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh (363437)
Peter R Sammonds, University College London, Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, London, United Kingdom, Bayes Ahmed, University College London (UCL), Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR), London, United Kingdom, Md. Shahinoor Rahman, George Mason University Fairfax, Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, Fairfax, VA, United States and Rahenul Islam, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Improving Flood Early Warning Systems in Lower Mekong Countries with Earth Observation Data (387716)
Senaka Bandara Basnayake1, Chinaporn Meechaiya1, Farrukh Chishtie2, Susantha Jayasinghe1, Hyongki Lee3, Peeranan Towashiraporn1, Eric Ross Anderson4, Kel Markert5, Ate Poortinga6 and Spencer McDonald7, (1)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (2)SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (3)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)Researcher, Huntsville, United States, (6)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (7)Intern, SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand

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