LCLUC Regional Hands-on Training in AOGEO R egion – Thailand Malaysia

1. LCLUC Regional Hands-on Training in AOGEO Region – Thailand Malaysia Committee on Earth Observation Satellites • NASA LCLUC • CEOS WGCapD-8 Annual Meeting • Agenda Item 20 • Working Group on • Capacity Building & Data Democracy • Indian Institute of Remote Sensing • Indian Space Research Organisation • Dehradun, India • March 06th – 08th, 2019

2. Outline -Brief update on the NASA LCLUC Program -Regional hands-on training -Previous trainings in the region and forthcoming events -Budget -Questions Addressed • Training topics • Who are you targeting? • What outcomes are you trying to achieve? • What best practices do you follow? • What evidence do you measure to show that capacity is built? • Who are your implementing partners? • What are the potential areas for collaboration and linkages?

3. NASA Land Cover/Land Use Change Program • LC/LUC is an interdisciplinary scientific theme within NASA’s Earth Science Division. The ultimate vision of this program is to developthe capability for periodic global inventories of land cover and land use from space, to develop the scientific understanding and models necessary to simulate the processes taking place, and to evaluate the consequences of observed and predicted changes • Characterizing Land Cover • Quantifying LC Change • Drivers of LCLUC • Natural Drivers • Anthropogenic Drivers • Socio-Economic Drivers • Political Drivers • Landscape Modification • Impacts of LCLUC • Carbon Cycle • Surface Hydrology • Atmosphere • Social Systems • Food, Energy, Water • Scenarios of Future Change http://lcluc.hq.nasa.gov

4. NASA LCLUC Program Management Dr. Garik Gutman, NASA Head Quarters -Program Manager Dr. Chris Justice, Prof. Dept. of Geographical Sciences, Univ. of Maryland College Park -Program Scientist Dr. Krishna Prasad Vadrevu, Remote Sensing Scientist, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center -Program Coordinator

5. LCLUC – A Global Program • LCLUC is a global program supported through regional partnerships toenhance • Regional scientists’ access to NASA assets • NASA scientists access to national data and facilitate field data collection  • LCLUC is a catalyst for regional science initiatives through • Networks by leveraging national/local knowledge and resources and strengthening NASA research projects • Workshops focused on societal priorities and policy-relevant land-use science • LCLUC is a promoter of regional capacity building through • NASA data-use training • International data sharing

6. Webinars • Science meetings • Regional Trainings • Special sessions (AGU, EARSeL, Other) • E-Newsletters • LCLUC websiteand Facebookpage • Education and Outreach

7. Regional meetings/workshops help in identifying research, capacity building and training Needs and Priorities • Training events are integral to the LCLUC program • (eg: 3-day training after the meeting) • 3-day Meeting: No registration Charges; Free food • ~200 participants • 3-day Training:No registration charges; Free food • ~80 participants • Regional Hands-On Training

8. Meeting Location:  JohurBahru, Malaysia Meeting dates (3-days):  July 22-24th, 2019 Training dates (3-days):July 25-27th, 2019 www.sari.umd.edu Contact: Dr. Krishna Vadrevu krishna.p.vadrevu@nasa.gov • LCLUC Malaysia Meeting +Training, 2019

9. Meeting Location:  Chonburi Campus, GISTDA Training dates:  October 14-18th, 2019 www.sari.umd.edu Contact: Dr. Krishna Vadrevu krishna.p.vadrevu@nasa.gov NASA LCLUC -GISTDA collaboration -2-Training events per year -One at the GISTDA campus and second one at a local University in Thailand -NASA LCLUC to facilitate international trainers; GISTDA to facilitate local logistics • NASA – GISTDA Training Events • (2019-2021) Building collaborations and organizing events with equal cost-share can be a good strategy

10. Recent Meetings in the S/Southeast Asia

11. Recent Trainings in S/Southeast Asia Promoting Open Source Tools and Cloud Computing Platforms (Ex: GEE)

12. LCLUC Meeting, 2018, Philippines ~202 participants – 21 countries representation from 160 different organizations 3-day meeting + 3-day training

13. Outputs are Priority! Volume-II Volume-I

14. Philippines Training ~120 Participants University of Philippines

15. 3-Different Outputs of the Philippines Meeting Journal Special Issue Journal Special Issue 2-Volume Book Biomass Burning in South/Southeast Asia – Volume-1 Inventory, Mapping and Monitoring Biomass Burning in South/Southeast Asia – Volume-2 Impacts on Biosphere Guest Editors Dr. Krishna Vadrevu (NASA) Dr. ToshimasaOhara (NIES) Guest Editors Dr. Krishna Vadrevu (NASA) Prof. Chris Justice (Umd) Dr. Garik Gutman (NASA) Book Editors Dr. Krishna Vadrevu (NASA) Dr. ToshimasaOhara (NIES) Prof. Chris Justice (Umd)

16. Philippines Meeting Summary Published in the NASA Earth Observer Sep-Oct-2018

17. 2-Days of Focused Training using Google Earth Engine for Forest Cover Mapping in Nepal Day-1 -Introduction to GEE -Coding, calculating, visualization, exporting Day-2 Satellite image analysis in GEE -Topographic correction, pre- processing, post-processing and including classification accuracy assessment • We also do Focused Thematic Training Workshops 35 Participants, Forest Action Institute, Nepal

18. What are the training topics? • Who are you targeting? • What outcomes are you trying to achieve? • What best practices do you follow? • What evidence do you measure to show that capacity is built? • Who are your implementing partners? • What are the potential areas for collaboration and linkages? • Questions Addressed

19. Day-1 • Popular Lecture – How to Write Papers for the “Remote Sensing of Environment” -Emilio Chuvieco, Editor RSE, (University of Alcala, Spain) • Multi-temporal Analysis of Satellite Images – Emilio Chuvieco (University of Alcala, Spain) • Web based tool to study the impact of Agricultural LCLUC on Climate – Atul Jain (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) • Day-2 • Annual Forest Disturbance Mapping Using Time Series Landsat Observations –Chengquan Huang (Univ. of Maryland College Park) • Philippines Training Topics

20. Philippines Training Topics • SAR Remote Sensing and Examples – Thuy Le Toan (CESBIO, France) • Day-3 • Random Forests Classification in Python and Crop-type classification – Kristofer Lasko (UMD, USA) • Spectral Indices, and Image Classification with GEE – Ate Poortinga (SERVIR‐Mekong/Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Thailand)

21. Grad students, regional researchers, participants from government, non-government (each training has different participants; we have statistics from registration pages) • All interested in LCLUC • Facilitated by the local host, NASA mailing list, emails • Mandatory registration (meeting + training website link) • Who are you targeting?

22. Hands-on training • Train attendees w.r.t. latest tools/techniques relating to LCLUC science • Train attendees w.r.t. to latest products generated by the NASA PI’s • Improve knowledge and educate attendees w.r.t. on-going LCLUC issues in different countries/regions of the world • Training through hands-on tutorials of their on-going research projects (US LCLUC PI’s) • What outcomes are you trying to achieve?

23. Start much early • Meeting/training registration through Website • Accommodation at the subsidized University hostels • Trainers are contacted in advance (at least 3-4 months) • No computer rooms – all attendees are requested to bring their own laptops (informing in advance will help) • Trainers asked to inform about software requirements to share with attendees (to install on computers) • Classroom type of setting with Internet + Projector • Hands-on materials posted on the website • Participation certificates to attendees • What best practices do you follow?

24. LCLUC program does it through post-training Evaluation forms • Online Evaluation Form built to address multiple questions (sample evaluation in next slides) • Using tools taught during training events to use later; metrics through Publications • What evidence do you measure to show that capacity is built?

25. Evaluation helps us to design more robust training events in future Evaluation is mostly done through online Google Forms

27. For us, Quality is most important • LCLUC training events are done by the NASA LCLUC project PI’s who are highly experienced Professors at different Universities (mostly US; sometimes other) • We have several implementing partners. They vary depending on sponsorship and also interests (Govt/non-gov, academia) • Local hosts provide / facilitate logistics. To be cost-effective, training events are organized at the local Universities. • Implementing Partners

28. We can include international/WGCapD trainers in the LCLUC training events • For the forthcoming training events in Malaysia and Thailand, we can work together to make them WGCapD events (NO FUNDING REQUIRED – already covered) • We are open to different themes (crops, forests, urban, disasters, water resources, etc.). Optical + SAR + UAV + Cloud computing have been our regular topics • Open to the other collaborative options • What are the potential areas for collaboration and linkages?

29. Thank you for your attention Questions?