TIGER Capacity Building & Research Activities · TIGER Capacity Building & Research Activities Dr. Zoltán Vekerdy and Ir. Arno van Lieshout [email protected] and [email protected]

TIGER Capacity Building & Research Activities

Dr. Zoltán Vekerdy and Ir. Arno van Lieshout

[email protected] and [email protected] University of Twente

Faculty of Geoinformation Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC)

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TCBF under TIGER

TIGER Initiative in 2013

– TIGER Capacity Building Facility: Aims at supporting the research actions of the initiative • Providing capacity building

• Providing access to data

21-Oct-2013 TIGER Workshop 2013, Tunis 2

– TIGER-NET: Aims at supporting the satellite-based assessment and monitoring of water resources (next presentation by Dr. Walli)

TCBF approach

• Paradigm change was needed:

Capacity Building Building on Capacity

(Executive Seminar on Earth Observation for Improving Water Management in Africa, 2008

http://www.itc.nl/PDF/report_executive_seminar.pdf)

• There is an existing capacity in Africa; good starting point – Univerisities, regional centres, etc.

– TIGER Capacity Building Facility Phase I

http://www.itc.nl/PDF/report_executive_seminar.pdf

http://www.itc.nl/PDF/report_executive_seminar.pdf

TIGER CBF Phase II activities

• Support of 20 research projects

• 8 training courses on EO topics

• Training Kit

• Support to Regional Offices

• Support to data access

• Cooperation with other networks and donors (World Bank, CapNet)

• Fellowship programme (Alcantara)

• Support of projects in publications: – AARSE conferences,

– Special issue of Remote Sensing ‘Open’

Countries Involved: • Burkina Faso • Chad • DRC • Egypt • Ghana • Kenya • Madagascar • Mali • Morocco • Namibia • Republic of Congo • Senegal • South Africa • Zambia

TIGER Phase - Research Component: 20 Research Projects

Activities: • Research supervision • Tailored courses • Courses in Africa • Distance education courses • Publication support • etc.

Training sessions in Africa

1. Basics of EO,

2. Water quality

3. Radar applications

4. ET and drought

5. Advanced EO in water management – SAR and flood mapping (with WB)

6. EO for water management in the Mediterranean (with EMWIS/SEMIDE)

7. Small reservoirs and water body mapping (with WB)

8. EO applications for stakeholders – After our workshop


Training Kit

• 5 application topics (three-day courses): – Flood and water body mapping with SAR

– Evapotranspiration and drought

– Crops and irrigation

– Land cover

– Water Quality

• 1 cross-cutting topic: – Data acquisition

• 70 hours of teaching: lectures, exercises, additional teaching material, showcases, etc.

• Tested in RO trainings – feedback-based modifications

• Freely accessible from the end of this year

Empowerment of Regional Centers:

• Focus on the TCBF Regional Centers: AGHRYMET (Niger), RCMRD (Kenya), WRC et al. (South Africa), OSS (Tunisia)

• Training on the Training Kit (RO training)

• Partnership with Cap-Net/UNDP for Training of the Trainers

• Encouraging and supporting further trainings

TIGER Capacity Building Facility: TCBF activities for 2012-13

Training Kit

Regional office trainings

• Preparation for the utilization of the TIGER Training Kit

• Feedback from the TIGER community

• Preparation for CapNet Training of Trainer courses in the RO’s regions

Data access Simulated Sentinel-2 Time Series

• Part of Take5 initiative of CESBIO/CNES

• 14 test sites, globally distributed

• Four major EO applications: Forest, Marine, Agriculture, Wetlands

• Multi-sensor & multi-temporal data set (February-June 2013)

– SPOT4: 5 days repeat, 20 m, 60x60 km2, L1c & L2a

– RapidEye: 5 days repeat, 5 m, 25x25 km2, L3a

– Landsat-8: 16 days repeat*, 30 m, 180x180 km2, L1T


*since 15th of April (preferential acquisition)

Data access Multi-temporal and multi-sensor datasets


Free & Open complementary data over 14 of the Take5 test sites

Swath Width Spatial Resolution Nr. of Bands Revisit Time

Sentinel-2 290 km 10 m - 20 m 13 5 days

RapidEye 65 km 5 m 5 5 days

SPOT-4 60 km 20 m 4 5 days

Landsat-8 185 km 30 m 11 16 days

Access open from today to full RapidEye data set http://due.esrin.esa.int/s2t5.php

http://due.esrin.esa.int/s2t5.php






Cooperation with other networks and stakeholders: Cap-Net

www.cap-net.org Main activities: 1.) Training of Trainers programme with TIGER Regional Offices 2.) Further development of the TIGER Training Kit 3.) Further joint training proposals through our networks NBCBN (Nile Basin) CB-Hydronet (Congo Basin)


http://www.cap-net.org/





Cooperation with other networks and stakeholders: World Bank

• World Bank

– 2 trainings in 2012-13

– 3 trainings in preparation 2014-15

– 2 (or more?) trainings planned

– Focus first on national water authority (Zambia), then plans for extensions to river basin level (Zambezi)

– Topics: small water body mapping, flood, crop water requirements, ET and drought, etc.


Cooperation with other networks and stakeholders

• EMWIS/SEMIDE – focus on the Mediterranean

– The 6th Training course was organized with EMWIS/SEMIDE

• USDA Agriculture Research Service on SMAP calibration/ validation

– via the Moroccan Projects

• UNESCO IHP – joint course(s)

• Upcoming partnerships: CB HYDRONET, NBCBN-RE, …


Alcantara fellowship programme WQ of Lake Burullus (preliminary results)


Spring and summer blooms are shown for three spatially averaged regions The regions seem to have the same temporal behavior The start of the summer bloom is delayed in the middle region

M. S. Salama, H. Farag and V. Vekerdy University of Twente, The Netherlands

Support of projects in publications

• AARSE conferences: Scientific Results presented in special TIGER sessions

• Living Planet 2013: Two special TIGER Sessions

• Special issue of Remote Sensing “Open”

– Special Issue "Earth Observation for Water Resource Management in Africa" http://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/

– Deadline: 31st March 2014

– Peer reviewed, impact factor 2.1

– Publication fee: CHF 1000,- But! TCBF supports TIGER projects

– All TIGERs are welcome to submit research results!


http://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/



Summary of future plans

• Main goal: long-term sustainability of TCBF • Further work on extending our network and partnership

– Training sessions with partner organizations/networks – Training Kit – Utilizing WOIS in the trainings – Distance education courses… etc.

• Support to research – New call (approximately 10 projects) – Focus on quality research – New Alcantara call – Publication support

• Support in data access

•Your ideas? 21-Oct-2013 TIGER Workshop 2013, Tunis 17

TIGER CBF point of contact: [email protected]

Websites:

http://www.itc.nl/tiger http://www.tiger.esa.int

Latest Publications: TIGER Newletter #15 TIGER report 2012


http://www.itc.nl/tiger

http://www.tiger.esa.int

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