SERVIR Initiative for Geospatial Capacity Building in South Asia

Birendra Bajracharya Regional Program Manager, MENRIS International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development

ICIMOD - Regional Intergovernmental Learning and Knowledge Centre

210 million people in the HKH

1.3 billion people downstream

Linking Science-Policy-Practice

SCO NASA

Mesoamerica East Africa

HKH

Lower Mekong

West Africa

A flagship NASA-USAID partnership to improve environmental management and resilience to climate change by strengthening the

capacity of governments and other key stakeholders to integrate Earth observation information and geospatial technologies into

development decision-making

Monitoring Cryosphere & Atmosphere

Disasters Risk Management and Response

Adaptation to Change and

Livelihood Option

Integrated River Basin

Management

Transboundary Landscapes

Conservation

SERVIR-Himalaya

Addressing Mountain Development Challenges

Improve access to data, tools, model and

online mapping and visualization

Strengthen capacity of regional stakeholders

and youths

Create user-tailored decision support

tools and information services

Foster regional cooperation and build

international partnerships

Application Examples

Mapping, Monitoring and Modeling of Water Resources

Agricultural drought and crop monitoring

Rangeland management

Landscape Conservation and Natural resources accounting

Air Quality Monitoring

Disaster Risk Reduction and Rapid Response

GIT and Capacity Building

Forest Fire Monitoring in Nepal and Bhutan

Decadal Land Cover Change

Geographic Priority

• Primary focus:

Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Burma (in collaboration with SERVIR Mekong)

SERVIR HKH Phase 2

Thematic Priority

• Food Security and Agriculture

• Water, Weather, and Disasters

• Ecosystems, Land Use and Land Cover

• Special emphasis on User engagement, Capacity building, M&E and Gender

Operational Arrangement

SERVIR HKH

USAID

Support Team

NASA

Applied Science Team

Small Grants AST Projects

Capacity Building

Access to data and tools

Customized products, tools and services

Other SERVIR hubs

Technical backstopping, connect to scientific communities, access to data and methods, GIT support, Global data archive

Develop tools and provide training

on hub functions, facilitate hub

exchange, maintain global

web site

Joint research, product co-development, training

Exchange technical knowledge, joint product

development

Other SERVIR hubs

Other SERVIR hubs

Funding, procuring, and managing SERVIR hubs;

leverage global development mandate; coordinate among

its bilateral and regional missions

SERVIR has built the ClimateSERV data processing system to analyze and deliver global or regional data for the time period and area of interest.

o CHIRPS global rainfall data (FEWS NET)

o 0.05° spatial resolution (~5 km) o Consistent, daily rainfall records since 1981

o NMME Seasonal climate forecasts (NASA/SERVIR) o 0.5° spatial resolution (~50 km). o Daily rainfall and temperature for 180 days in advance,

updated monthly

o eMODIS vegetation index (NDVI, for West Africa, USGS) o 250 m spatial resolution. Pentadal, available since 2001

ClimateSERV (http://ClimateSERV.nsstc.nasa.gov/)

NASA Science Contributions

RHEAS framework to link hydrological and crop productivity models S. Granger1, K. Andreadis1, A. Behrangi1, N. Das1, J. Fisher1, E. Han2, A. Ines3, S. Li2, B. Lyon2, D. Stampoulis1 1Caltech/NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, 2IRI Columbia University 3Michigan State University

Regional Hydrologic Extremes and Assessment System (RHEAS) modeling framework to provide drought and crop productivity information to agricultural communities of SERVIR-Africa.

RHEAS Assimilation code is complete

Hydrologic model run in hindcast, nowcast and forecast modes (using IRI Net Assessments)

VIC and DSSAT models loosely coupled

Maize module completed (cultivar data acquired for Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia)

Stakeholder Engagement

Adapted capacity building model from public health sector

Developed training materials

Held National Workshops in 5 countries

Accessible Information

OpenGeo database implemented (PostGIS)

Prototype WebGIS using OpenGeo Suite

Outputs in GeoTiff and as Web Map Services

RHEAS drought severity forecasts using disaggregated IRI Net Assessments as forcings.

Now open source: https://github.com/nasa/RHEAS

GPM – Global Precipitation Measurement Mission SMAP – Soil Moisture Active-Passive Mission

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• IMERG Web Map Service – https://servirglobal.net/Global/Articles/Article/1452/servirs

-new-web-service-streamlines-use-of-key-precipitation-data

• Hydrology applications

– Floods (http://pmm.nasa.gov/applications/floods)

– Landslides (http://pmm.nasa.gov/applications/landslides)

Follow on TRMM-based flood and landslide monitoring http://pmm.nasa.gov/TRMM/flood-and-landslide-monitoring

• SMAP applications (http://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/science/applications/)

– monitoring soil moisture to improving understanding of water cycle, weather and climate forecasting, droughts, fires, floods, landslides, and agricultural productivity

User needs Priorities

Engagement

Decadal Programmatic

Framework

Integrative

Multi-Scale

End to End

Reproducible Repeatable Reliable

Right Information Right Time Right People

Product Service packaging

Capacity Building

Delivery and Operational Systems

Institutionalization

Sustainability

Service Design Framework

• Internships • NASA DEVELOP • Hackathon • Youth Forum

User engagement and Capacity Building

• Consultation Workshops • Dissemination workshops • Awareness campaigns • Policy Dialogs

• Application oriented Trainings • On the Job training • Exchange programs

Knowledge sharing platforms

Thank You