Hatfield Consultants Africa Presentation National Disaster Management Office of Botswana

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SIMON HUGHES, DIRECTOR28 APRIL 2011

NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT OFFICE

HATFIELD CONSULTANTS AFRICA

CONTENTS› Hatfield Consultants

› Capabilities

› Project examples› Lower Mekong Flood Monitoring Service

› Japan 2011 Earthquake/Tsunami

› Namibia Flood mapping

› River Awareness Kits

› Opportunities for support to NDMO?

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ABOUT HATFIELD› Hatfield has provided environmental

services to industry and government for over 35 years

› 1600 projects completed in over 40 countries

› 75 professional staff in offices in Canada, Indonesia and Africa

› Recipient of awards for:› Corporate Social Responsibility› International Development Services› Linear Development Services

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WHAT WE DO BEST› Integrated Aquatic Services:

› Fish Habitat Assessment› Fish Habitat Compensation Planning› Fish Inventories › Hydrology› Water and Sediment Monitoring

› Environmental Impact Assessment› Environmental Management› Environmental Effects Monitoring› Remote Sensing and GIS› Web-Based Environmental Information

Systems:> Permit Tracking > Environmental

Databases


ADVANTAGES & STRENGTHS› Team of multi-disciplinary

specialists (environment, fisheries, social/gender, GIS remote sensing)

› Offices around the world

› Strategic partnerships

› Award winning track-record of projects

› Experience on small and large projects in all aspects of the project life-cycle

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PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES› We use participatory approaches

to ensure meaningful stakeholder input including:

› Focus groups

› Workshops

› Interviews and surveys

› Training and capacity development are integral to all our work.


HATFIELD OFFICES


Vancouver, British Columbia

Ft. McMurray, Alberta

Calgary, Alberta

Bogor, Indonesia

Gaborone, Botswana

› Established August 2010

› Fully registered in Botswana

HATFIELD AFRICA› Information Communications Technologies (ICT)

› Environmental Information Systems

› Website & CD-ROM development

› Hatfield Content Management System - HatCMS

› Geographic Information Systems

› Cartography

› Remote Sensing and Satellite Image Sales

› Web-delivery – map services & Google Earth/Maps

› Training and Capacity Development

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ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS› User Needs Analysis › Training & Capacity Building › Environmental Data Management

› Data clean-up, preparation and input into database formats

› Data management and reporting systems › Data analysis and reporting

› Web-Based Project Management Systems › Permit tracking › Document and image management › Collaboration tools

› Data Exchange Services


GEOMATICS› Products:

› High resolution satellite imagery - 50cm upwards› GeoEye, RapidEye, etc › Landcover and vegetation maps, including

change detection› Hydrologically corrected DEMs

› Services:› Spatial data acquisition, capture› Satellite image acquisition and preparation for

GIS› GIS database design› Spatial analysis› Cartography and Web-mapping› Development of Google Earth/Maps services


EXAMPLE PROJECTS› Mekong River Commission Flood Monitoring

› Japan Earthquake/Tsunami

› Namibia Flood Mapping

› SADC Economic Accounting for Water Use

› River Awareness Kits


LOWER MEKONG RIVER BASINFLOOD MONITORING


› Flood Monitoring service – Mekong flood season

› Entire Lower Mekong Basin

› Weekly coverage, near-real time

› 70+ products per ‘date’

› Basin › Flood extent

› Flood extent change

› Individual hydrometric stations› Flood extent

› Flood extent change


FLOOD EXTENT AND CHANGE


STATION FLOOD EXTENT


STATION FLOOD EXTENT CHANGE

Recession

Expansion

JAPAN EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI


› Canadian Space Agency contract to support disaster relief

› International Disaster Management Charter

› RADARSAT-2

› Iwati and Sendai prefectures before(2010-05-11) and after (2011-03-12) tsunami

› Identified extent of inundation and infrastructure damage





NAMIBIA FLOOD MAPPING


› Canadian Space Agency contract to support disaster relief

› International Disaster Management Charter

› RADARSAT-2

› Cuvelai River

› Kavango River

› Flood extent

› Inundation estimates

› 15, 19, 21, 22 March 2011

› Semi-automated feature extraction

NAMIBIA FLOOD MAPPING 15 MARCH 2011








NAMIBIA FLOOD MAPPING 21 MARCH 2011FEATURE EXTRACTION – FLOOD EXTENT


SADC ECONOMIC ACCOUNT FORWATER USE PROJECT WEBSITE & CD-ROM


› SADC Water use accounting project 2009 – 2010

› Funding from EU Water Facility & GIZ› Re-package project results› Easy to use website and CD-ROM› Make documentation more accessible

for decision-makers and a broader audience

› Central resource for SADC on EAW› Hatfield Content Management System

HatCMS› www.sadcwateraccounting.org

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SADC ECONOMIC ACCOUNT FOR WATER USE PROJECT WEBSITE & CD-ROM













• 2002/2003 – Mekong River Awareness Kit

• 2004-2006 – Nile River Awareness Kit

• 2007-2008 – Regional Aquatic Monitoring Program

• 2008-2009 – Orange-Senqu River Awareness Kit

• 2009 – 2011 – Limpopo and Kunene River

Awareness Kits

RIVER AWARENESS KITS

WHAT IS A RIVER AWARENESS KIT?


• Central repository of information for the Limpopo River basin

• Existing information, repackaged• Website and CD ROM• Text-based content• Maps, graphics and diagrams• Interactive media• Google Earth application• Documents• Parallel languages

APPROACH AND BENEFITS


• Approach– User-driven– Needs and Capacity Assessment and

Feedback– Focus on self-learning

• Benefits– Stakeholder involvement and ownership – Raises awareness of transboundary

water issues– Supports cooperation between basin

states and institutions– Platform for capacity development,

enhancing the regional knowledge base– Identify gaps in knowledge

CONTENTS


• Developed through participatory approach• River Basin – geography and physical

environment (98)• People & the River – social, economic and

cultural aspects (40)• Governance – governance context from

international to Limpopo (49)• Resource Management – water demand,

infrastructure, valuation (54)• Total 240+ pages

OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUPPORT TO NDMO?


• GIS and Remote Sensing services– flood service, etc

• Satellite image acquisition• Website development• Information system development• Google Maps/Earth services• Report writing/review/editing

CONTACT INFORMATION


SIMON HUGHESDIRECTORHATFIELD CONSULTANTS AFRICA

+267 726 596 [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]�

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Hatfield Consultants Africa Presentation National Disaster Management Office of Botswana