GC045
Implementing Earth Observations in South and Southeast Asia to Address Environmental Challenges I eLightning

Wednesday, 9 December 2020: 07:00-08:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Timothy Mayer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Amanda (Weigel) Markert, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Birendra Bajracharya, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, MENRIS, Kathmandu, Nepal and Peeranan Towashiraporn, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand
Primary Liaison:  Helen Blue Baldwin, NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Chairs:  Timothy Mayer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Amanda (Weigel) Markert, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Helen Blue Baldwin, NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
07:00
GC045-01
Application of SERVIR - Mekong’s RDCYIS to Enhance Drought Forecast and Warning Generation in Ninh Thuan Province, Vietnam (680205)
Susantha Jayasinghe1, Dang Thanh Binh2, Nguyen Tien3, Ha Hai Duong4, Farrukh Chishtie5, Nguyen Hanh Quyen6, Biplov Bhandari6, Kostas M Andreadis7, Narendra N Das8, Amor V M Ines9, Kel Markert10, Peeranan Towashiraporn1 and Amanda (Weigel) Markert11, (1)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (2)Vietnam National Hydro-meteorological Agency, Hanoi, Vietnam, (3)Vietnam Academy of Water Resources, Hanoi, Vietnam, (4)Vietnam Academy of Water Resources, Vietnam, Vietnam, (5)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (6)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (7)NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, United States, (8)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, (10)NASA/SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, United States, (11)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
07:03
GC045-02
Developing a Customizable Composite Drought Index for Pakistan (694701)
Caily Schwartz1, Robert Griffin1, Walter Lee Ellenburg II2, Vikalp Mishra1, Timothy Mayer1, Faisal M. Qamer3, Mir Abdul Matin3 and Tsegaye Tadesse4, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
07:06
GC045-03
Rapid Indo-Malaysian Land Cover and Land Use Change over the last 35 Years (696269)
Yaqian He1,2, Jonathan W Chipman1 and Justin S Mankin3, (1)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)University of Central Arkansas, Geography, Conway, AR, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States
07:09
GC045-04
Forecasting Inundation Extents using REOF analysis (FIER) over Lower Mekong Basin (699974)
Chi-Hung Chang1, Hyongki Lee1, Le Thuy Tien Du1, Jinkyoo Choi1, Du Duong Bui2, Chinaporn Meechaiya3,4 and Kel Markert5,6, (1)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (2)National Center for Water Resources Planning and Investigation, Hanoi, Vietnam, (3)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (4)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (5)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States, (6)NASA/SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, United States
07:12
GC045-05
Degradation as a catalyst for primary forest conversion in Indonesia (702574)
Diana Parker1, Kustiyo .2, Arief Wijaya3, Anna Tosiani4, Muhammad Yazid4, Inggit Sari2, Tatik Kartika2, Rizky Firmansyah3, Zuraidah Said3, Peter Potapov5, Alexandra Tyukavina5, Stephen V. Stehman6 and Matthew Hansen5, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)National Institute of Aeronautics and Space of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, (3)World Resources Institute Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, (4)Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, (5)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (6)SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States
07:15
GC045-06
Recent measurements of subsidence in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh (707975)
Michael S Steckler1,2, Bar Oryan1,2, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal3, Céline Grall4, Syed Humayun Akhter5, Carol Wilson6, Md. Hasnat Jaman7, Valerie Ballu8 and Eric Lindsey9, (1)Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (4)LIENSs, La Rochelle University, La Rochelle, France, (5)University of Dhaka, Department of Geology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (6)Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (7)Barisal University, Barisal, Bangladesh, (8)Laboratoire Littoral Environnement et Sociétés (LIENSs), La Rochelle, UMR 7266, La Rochelle, France, (9)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
07:18
GC045-07
Multiscale Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in Myanmar, Southeast Asia (719806)
Skyler Edwards, Madison, AL, United States, Eric Ross Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Susantha Jayasinghe, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand and Anggraini Dewi, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand
07:21
GC045-08
A deep-learning approach to forest disturbance detection using Sentinel-1 imagery in the Lower Mekong Basin (734791)
John Burns Kilbride1, Poortinga Ate2, Biplov Bhandari3, Robert E Kennedy1, Nyein Soe Thwal3, Jeff Silverman4, Timothy Mayer5, Karis Tenneson6, Nicholas Clinton7, Amanda Weigel8 and David S Saah9, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (3)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (4)Tetra Tech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (7)Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, United States, (8)SERVIR - NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (9)University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States
07:24
GC045-09
Impacts of Cyclones Fani, Bulbul and Amphan on shoreline erosion dynamics in the Sundarbans mangrove forest in India and Bangladesh. (743634)
Radhika Bhargava and Daniel Friess, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
07:27
GC045-10
Commodity-driven changes in Southeast Asia forest cover and carbon stock using robust visual photo-interpretation (747418)
John Dilger1, Jenna Jadin2, Karis Tenneson3, Todd S Rosenstock4, Nathan Pugh5, Matthew S Patterson5, Rachmat Mulia4, Nguyen Hanh Quyen6, Poortinga Ate1, Farrukh Chishtie1, Sarah Marlay7 and David S Saah8, (1)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (2)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, United States, (3)Spatial Informatics Group, Pleasanton, CA, United States, (4)World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya, (5)US Forest Service, Geospatial Technology and Applications Center (GTAC), Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (6)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (7)USDA Forest Service, International Programs, Fort Collins, United States, (8)University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States
07:30
GC045-11
Estimating Forest Stand Height in Savannakhet, Lao PDR Using InSAR and Backscatter Methods with L-Band SAR Data (748075)
Helen Blue Baldwin1, Timothy Mayer1, Kelsey E. Herndon2, Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova2, Yang Lei3, Nguyen Hanh Quyen4, Thannarot Kunlamai4, Peeranan Towashiraporn5 and Sylvia Wilson6, (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)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (5)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (6)United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States
07:33
GC045-12
Cloud Free Flood Mapping : Towards a Radar-Based Approach to Flood Detection for Index Insurance Applications in Northern Bangladesh (758493)
Mitchell Thomas1, Beth Tellman2, Marco Tedesco1, Paolo Colosio3 and Michael S Steckler4, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Columbia Water Center, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, (4)Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
07:36
GC045-13
Towards more Accurate Riverine Flood Forecasting over the Lower Mekong Basin: Assessment of the Rainfall Forecast CHIRPS-GEFS for the Mekong River Commission (767818)
Chinaporn Meechaiya1, Miguel Laverde1, Lam Hung Son2, Khem Sothea2, Arjen Haag3, Martijn Kwant3, Poortinga Ate4, Amanda (Weigel) Markert5, Shraddhanand Shukla6, Martin Francis Landsfeld6, Gregory J Husak6, Farrukh Chishtie4, Peeranan Towashiraporn1 and David S Saah7, (1)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (2)Mekong River Commission, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, (3)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (4)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (5)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Group, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (7)University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States
07:39
GC045-14
Modeling Habitat Suitability for Clouded Leopard and Sambar Deer in the Far Eastern Himalayas (773309)
Ramesh Silwal1,2, Kabir Uddin2, Yi Shaoliang2 and Mir Abdul Matin2, (1)Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, India, (2)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal
07:42
GC045-15
Ongoing development and adoption of a regional near real time flood monitoring service by SERVIR-Mekong: challenges, innovations and upcoming deliveries (775348)
Farrukh Chishtie1,2, Kel Nicolas Markert3, Arjen Haag4, Poortinga Ate2, Amanda (Weigel) Markert5, Timothy Mayer6, Khun San Aung1, Kittiphong Phongsapan7, Thannarot Kunlamai8, Martijn Kwant4, Nyein Soe Thwal8, Claire Nauman6, Chinaporn Meechaiya8, Miguel Laverde9, Andrea Puzzi Nicolau10, Nicholas Clinton11, David S Saah12 and Peeranan Towashiraporn9, (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)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (5)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (7)Asian Disaster Prepapredness Center, Climate Chnage and Climate Risk Management, Bangkok, Thailand, (8)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand, (9)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (10)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, (11)Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, United States, (12)University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States
07:45
Discussion
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