GC092
Use of Earth Observations in Mitigating Major Environmental Challenges in South and Southeast Asia

Session ID#: 78746

Session Description:
Growing population pressures, coupled with increased variability of floods and droughts are increasing the complexity of resource allocation and other environmental decision making in the South and Southeast Asia regions. This session focuses on basic and applied research efforts in the regions that incorporate Earth observations to generate tools, products, and services, to support the environmental decision making by governmental institutions, non-governmental agencies, and the general public. The major challenges facing the region are particularly acute in food security and agriculture, water resources management, disaster risk reduction, and rapidly changing land use and ecosystems. Submissions are welcome from researchers and practitioners focusing on addressing these societal challenges for the South and Southeast Asia regions.
Index Terms:

1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Primary Convener:  Walter Lee Ellenburg II, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Birendra Bajracharya, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, MENRIS, Kathmandu, Nepal, Peeranan Towashiraporn, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Pathumthani, Thailand and Amanda (Weigel) Markert, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Amanda (Weigel) Markert, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Rising future tropical cyclone-induced extreme winds in the Mekong River Basin (503052)
Aifang Chen1, Kerry Emanuel2, Deliang Chen1, Changgui Lin1 and Fuqing Zhang3, (1)University of Gothenburg, Department of Earth Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden, (2)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States
 
Evaluating Flood Forecasting System Performance in Cambodia During the 2019 Flood Season (503838)
Claire Nauman1, Amanda (Weigel) Markert2, Robert Griffin1, Eric Anderson3, Timothy Mayer1, Farrukh Chishtie4 and Chinaporn Meechaiya5, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (5)Asian Disaster Perpardness Center, SERVIR-Mekong & Climate Resilience, Bangkok, Thailand
 
Spatial Biodiversity Model To Characterize Biological Diversity Using R Statistical Computing Environment For Nepal Himalaya (504304)
Ramesh Silwal, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, India; International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Geospatial Solutions, Kathmandu, Nepal, Arijit Roy, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Disaster Management studies, Dehradun, India, Harish Karnatak, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Geoweb Services, IT and Distance Learning Department (GIT&DL), Dehradun, India, Subrata Nandy, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Goernment of India, Forestry and Ecology, Dehradun, India and Rajesh Bahadur Thapa, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Geospatial Solutions, Kathmandu, Nepal
 
Assessing the Accuracy of Landslide Runout Simulations within Myanmar, Southeast Asia (508328)
Skyler Edwards, Madison, AL, United States, Eric Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, Andi Brinn Thomas, HX5—Jacobs JETS Contract, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States and Amanda (Weigel) Markert, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Hydrologic Monitoring in Afghanistan to Support Food and Water Security Decision Making (Invited) (509080)
Amy McNally1, Md Shahriar Pervez2, Augusto Getirana1, Andrew Hoell3, Kimberly Slinski4, Gregory J Husak5, Harikishan Jayanthi6 and Christa D Peters-Lidard7, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)ASRC Federal InuTeq, Contractor to USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (3)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrologic Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (6)Climate Hazards Group, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (7)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Mapping Areas, Understanding Causes and Estimating Impacts of Mangrove Erosion Hotspots (517959)
Radhika Bhargava, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Daniel Friess, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Dipto Sarkar, National University of Singapore, Geography, Singapore, Singapore and Tom Worthington, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
Evaluation of Precipitation Forecast Produced by High Impact Weather Assessment Toolkit from NASA SERVIR's Monitoring Extreme Weather in the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region Service (518730)
Helen Blue Baldwin, NASA SERVIR - Science Coordination Office, Washington, DC, United States, Walter Lee Ellenburg, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Robert Griffin, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Natural hazards monitoring and disaster response for South and Southeast Asia using Synthetic Aperture Radar data (521600)
Emma Hill1,2, Shi Tong Chin2, Cheryl Tay Wen Jing1, Sang-Ho Yun3, Yu-Nung Nina Lin4, Alok Bhardwaj2, Eric Ostrom Lindsey2, Hook Hua3, Gerald Manipon3, Judy Lai-Norling3, Susan E Owen3 and Mark Simons5, (1)Nanyang Technological University, Asian School of the Environment, Singapore, Singapore, (2)Nanyang Technological University, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Comparative analysis of three temporal smoothing algorithms on annual land cover time series (532633)
Nishanta Khanal1, Mir A Matin2, Kabir Uddin1, Poortinga Ate3, Farrukh Chishtie3, Karis Tenneson4 and David S Saah5, (1)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Geospatial Solutions, Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (4)Spatial Informatics Group, Pleasanton, CA, United States, (5)University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States
 
Annual Cropland Area Estimation and Change Analysis to Support Agricultural Statistics of Nepal Applying an Automatic Methodologies (542800)
Sajana Maharjan1, Kabir Uddin1, Mir Abdul Matin1, Nishanta Khanal1, Birendra Bajracharya2, Raja Ram Aryal3, Karis Tenneson4 and David S Saah5,6, (1)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Geospatial Solutions, Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, MENRIS, Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)Forest Research and Training Centre, Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)Spatial Informatics Group, Pleasanton, CA, United States, (5)University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States, (6)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Pleasonton, CA, United States
 
Developing a web-based seasonal geomorphological monitoring system for Ayeyarwady River basin in Myanmar (542929)
Dhyey Bhatpuria1, Karthikeyan Matheswaran2, Thanapon Piman2, Manish Shrestha2, Aung Myo Khaing3 and Peeranan Towashiraporn4, (1)Stockholm Environment Institute, Asia Centre, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Stockholm Environment Institute, Asia Centre, Bangkok, Thailand, (3)Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems, Yangon, Myanmar, (4)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Pathumthani, Thailand
 
Remote sensing applications of land cover mapping and development of associated decision support tools (548826)
Kristofer Lasko, Geospatial Research Laboratory, US Army Corps of Engineers, Alexandria, VA, United States
 
Application Research of Multi-source Data Auto-aggregation Middleware in Eco-environmental Monitoring (568755)
Jianwen Guo and Feihu Hu, CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China
 
Impacts of dam development and landscape changes on suspended sediment concentrations in the Mekong River Basin’s ‘3S’ tributaries: a satellite remote sensing perspective (606131)
Claire Beveridge, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, Matthew Bonnema, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Faisal Hossain, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, Seattle, United States
 
Understanding the Regional Implications of Drought on Rice Yields over the Lower Mekong Region (615392)
Abhijeet Abhishek1, Narendra N Das2, Amor V M Ines1, Konstantinos Andreadis3, Mantha S Phanikumar4, Susantha Jayasinghe5 and Farrukh Chishtie6, (1)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (4)Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI, United States, (5)Asian Disaster Perpardness Center, SERVIR-Mekong & Climate Resilience, Bangkok, Thailand, (6)SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand
 
A Comparison of Techniques for Estimating NDVI for Agricultural Intervention Impact Assessment (615607)
Ronan Lucey, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, Robert Griffin, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Walter Lee Ellenburg II, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States and Udaysankar S Nair, University of Alabama in Huntsville Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Predicting Land Cover Change Hotspots Using a Landsat Derived 30 Years Land Cover Timeseries, Open Data and Machine Learning (628086)
Aekkapol Aekakkararungroj, SERVIR-Mekong, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Geospatial Information Department, Bangkok, Thailand, Poortinga Ate, Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, Farrukh Chishtie, SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, Nguyen Hanh Quyen, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, Kritsana Kityuttachai, Mekong River Commission, Vientiane, Laos and David S Saah, University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States
 
Uptake of bias corrected GPM IMERG products by the Mekong River Commission for Operational Flood Forecasting Services (629004)
Senaka Bandara Basnayake1, Farrukh Chishtie2, Miguel Angel Laverde Laverde3, Chinaporn Meechaiya1, Susantha Jayasinghe1, Amanda (Weigel) Markert4, Kel Markert5, Timothy Mayer6, Eric Anderson7 and David S Saah8, (1)Asian Disaster Perpardness Center, SERVIR-Mekong & Climate Resilience, Bangkok, Thailand, (2)SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (3)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)Researcher, Huntsville, United States, (6)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (7)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (8)University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States
 
A Novel Multi-sensor System for Surface Water Mapping and Flood Applications (634906)
Farrukh Chishtie1,2, Kel Nicolas Markert3, Amanda (Weigel) Markert4, David Saah5, Arjen Haag6, Willem van Verseveld6, Martijn Kwant6, Eric Ross Anderson4, Timothy Mayer7, Poortinga Ate2, Khun San Aung1, Kittiphong Phongsapan8, Karthikeyan Matheswaran9, Chinaporn Meechaiya10, Miguel Angel Laverde Laverde11, Biplov Bhandari12, Thannarot Kunlamai12 and Peeranan Towashiraporn13, (1)SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (2)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)University of San Francisco, Environmental Science, San Francisco, CA, United States, (6)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (7)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (8)Asian Disaster Prepapredness Center, Climate Chnage and Climate Risk Management, Bangkok, Thailand, (9)roskilde university, Roskilde, Denmark, (10)Asian Disaster Perpardness Center, SERVIR-Mekong & Climate Resilience, Bangkok, Thailand, (11)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (12)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (13)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Pathumthani, Thailand
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