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Improving Water Management and Addressing Transboundary Water Issues with NASA-USAID 'SERVIR'

Improving Water Management and Addressing Transboundary Water Issues with NASA-USAID 'SERVIR'. Aleix Serrat-Capdevila - University of Arizona – NASA SERVIR AST Ashutosh Limaye - NASA SERVIR AST Technical Coordinator. About SERVIR.

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Improving Water Management and Addressing Transboundary Water Issues with NASA-USAID 'SERVIR'

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  1. Improving Water Management and Addressing Transboundary Water Issues with NASA-USAID 'SERVIR' • Aleix Serrat-Capdevila - University of Arizona – NASA SERVIR AST • AshutoshLimaye- NASA SERVIR AST Technical Coordinator

  2. About SERVIR A NASA-USAID partnershipthat provides satellite-based Earth observations and science applications to help developing nations in Central America, East Africa and the Himalayas to improve their environmental decision making.

  3. SERVIR Network SERVIR Hub Program Office (NASA/MSFC) Potential Future Hubs SERVIR Network RCMRD – Host of SERVIR Africa ICIMOD – Host of SERVIR-Himalaya CATHALAC– Host of SERVIR-Mesoamerica

  4. What We Do • Identify needs in SERVIR regions • Link science products to meet those needs through improved access to data, models and visualizations • Build capacity of regional institutions, stakeholders, and young professionals • Strengthen partnerships and foster collaboration across SERVIR network

  5. Connecting Space To Village |‌ 5

  6. Faisal HOSSAIN et al. Tennessee Tech A Satellite-based Early Warning, Mapping and Post-Disaster Visualization System for Water Resources of Low-lying Deltas of the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region Water Surface Elevation Data from Jason-2 + Hydrodynamic Model In collaboration with ICIMOD. Full ownership by end user: IWM-Bangladesh has created its own dynamic portal.

  7. Faisal HOSSAIN et al.Tennessee Tech Experimental 8 Day JASON-2 Flood Forecasting http://apps.geoportal.icimod.org/BDFloodForecasting/ http://apps.iwmbd.com/satfor

  8. CREST in East Africa • SERVIR has developed a hydrologic modeling system called CREST. • It uses NASA remotely-sensed datasets for hydrologic assessments. In collaboration with: • Kenya Meteorological Department • Department of Water Resources, Kenya • SERVIR Africa is running the model in near real time and is working on getting the seasonal forecasts in a few months.

  9. Comments from a CREST End User “The biggest problem we have is lack of data. When someone, like SERVIR Africa comes along to help us out it is very good because we have been missing floods.” -SiminteiKooke Deputy Director of Water Resources, Kenya Ministry of Water and Irrigation

  10. SERVIRAfrica

  11. Online Interactive Mapper

  12. Pietro CECCATO et al. Columbia-IRI • Flood Risk Mapping, Water Bodies Monitoring and Climate Information for Disaster Management and Human Health Integration A vector-borne disease risk assessment tool. Irrigated/Inundated Area vs. Malaria Noticeable 4-month lag: peak in surface water fraction vs. malaria incidence rate in 8 districts in Eritrea. Time series of inundated area will help forecast risk of malaria transmission.

  13. James VERDIN & Chris FUNKUSGS - UCSB A Long Time-Series Indicator of Agricultural Drought for the Greater Horn of Africa – USGS FEWS NET Creation of a 1981-2013 time-series of gridded rainfall at 0.05 degree (pentadal) Computation of seasonal water balance maps for maize, grains, and rangelands using a custom instance of LIS Creation of a web interface building upon the Early Warning eXplorer (EWX)

  14. Stephanie GRANGER et al.NASA-JPL East Africa Drought and Crop Productivity Assessment and Prediction • Nowcastsand forecasts of drought and crop productivity, using ground and satellite based information: • VIC hydrologic model coupled with the DSSAT crop productivity model. • Informing farmers to adjust the timing of their crops based on projected outlooks of drought probability and crop productivity. • Inform decisions at the ministry level by providing projections of productivity and yield with associated error bars. Initial focus on Kenyan watersheds Nzoia/Yala Basin Upper Tana

  15. Juan VALDES (U. Arizona) Aleix SERRAT-CAPDEVILA SERVIR Water Africa Arizona Team (SWAAT Project) Developing real time hydrologic monitoring and forecasting applications in 3 pilot basins. to support water management Multi-Model Approach using: + Real-time satellite precipitation and soil moisture measurements + Numerical Precipitation Forecasts Tekeze Basin Background Efforts in Senegal Basin Mara Basin What models are best in what settings ? What models are best for what purposes? Regional Stakeholder Feedback and CO-DESGN of applications Upper Zambezi

  16. Proof of concept Senegal River sub-basin, from Serrat-Capdevila et al. (2013)

  17. Linkage with UNESCO-Related Programs and Projects

  18. Take home messages • SERVIR is a link between US research institutions and end users in the Hub regions. • SERVIR uses remote sensing data and develops cutting-edgeapplications to support on-the-ground water management needs, which may be different in each region. • Hence, it connects the latest hydrologic tools and forecasts to end users and decision makers. • The SERVIR Hubs, technical institutions with regional government support, make the linkage sustainable. • Growingpositive impacts in East Africa, Himalayan region and Central America. Soon in West Africa and Asia. • Open to new partnerships with other organizations.

  19. Thank youaleix@email.arizona.edu

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