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From Sergio Camacho: Micro basin studies to cover flooding due to hurricanes and extreme hydrometeorological events, including flash floods. This is a Mexico program that includes participation of countries in Central America and the Caribbean. Focus on CB hands-on training in access to no-cost satellite data (Landsat, Sentinel) and use of no-cost tools (e. g. QGIS, SNAP). Training has been in person but adding virtual due to Covid—19 pandemic.

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From Sergio Camacho: Micro basin studies to cover flooding due to hurricanes and extreme hydrometeorological events, including flash floods. This is a Mexico program that includes participation of countries in Central America and the Caribbean. Focus on CB hands-on training in access to no-cost satellite data (Landsat, Sentinel) and use of no-cost tools (e. g. QGIS, SNAP). Training has been in person but adding virtual due to Covid—19 pandemic.

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We are building 3 EWS for floods, at different levels and with different kind of information: i) at a rural community level; ii) at a poor neighborhood in a city; iii) at median size city level (Pilar)

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Hello, for us it is important to collaborate to have high resolution satellite images for the flood zone of the lower part of the Grijalva Usumacinta river, especially to mitigate or have protection strategies for the communities and cities affected by the floods. In Chiapas Tabasco Mexico.

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Hello, for us it is important to collaborate to have high resolution satellite images for the flood zone of the lower part of the Grijalva Usumacinta river, especially to mitigate or have protection strategies for the communities and cities affected by the floods. In Chiapas Tabasco Mexico.

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Hello, for us it is important to collaborate to have high resolution satellite images for the flood zone of the lower part of the Grijalva Usumacinta river, especially to mitigate or have protection strategies for the communities and cities affected by the floods. In Chiapas Tabasco Mexico.

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Hello, for us it is important to collaborate to have high resolution satellite images for the flood zone of the lower part of the Grijalva Usumacinta river, especially to mitigate or have protection strategies for the communities and cities affected by the floods. In Chiapas Tabasco Mexico.

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For hydraulic simulation tests in urban watersheds of Chiapas, Mexico, we need updated LIDAR DTMs.  We have LIDAR files from a 2006 flight, but since then there have been very marked changes in the topography of cities such as Tuxtla Gutierrez, San Cristobal de las Casas, Tapachula and others in Chiapas.
Similarly, to complement and improve hydrological and temporal land cover change studies, SPOT or higher resolution satellite images are required: currently only a complete series of Landsat images, with a resolution of 30 m, is available.

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Temporal and territorial prospective studies using Landsat satellite images

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Temporal and territorial prospective studies using Landsat satellite images

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The Autonomous University of Chiapas has the capacity to advise and carry out temporal and territorial prospective studies using Landsat satellite images.
Although the analyses carried out so far are located in the Grijalva-Usumacinta Basin, in Chiapas, Mexico, due to similar physical-environmental conditions, we can collaborate with other colleagues covering other regions of Central and South America as well as Tropical Africa.

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Inter-American Academy﻿ of Geosciences & Applications

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Inter-American Academy﻿ of Geosciences & Applications

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The Inter-American Academy of Geosciences & Applications is an aspirational objective that is the result of current and previous capacity development efforts in the region. The Inter-American Academy of Geosciences & Applications seeks to connect the community of practitioners, education, training and development opportunities, tools and resources that support knowledge and technical transfer that support professional development to advance sustainability in the region.

Partners in the Inter-American community are working to build capacity to advance the use of Statistical, Earth Observation, Geospatial and other Data to improve understanding and promote data-driven decision making.

https://academy-amerigeoss.hub.arcgis.com/

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Flood mapping to support territorial planning in most Americas' municipalities that need to develop sustainable development plans.  It needs flood mapping at a 25.000 or less scale.  Also, to link Climate change, SDGs, and Sendai Framework.

DEMS are high cost around 40% of the risk studies.

Countries have had no official methodology for Risk Mapping To support municipalities and Departments.

The satellite image processing is affected by the high rotation of GIS experts to mapping the risk.

The Technologies Solutions need to generate detailed maps in basins with the risk of flash floods that have caused many countries' fatalities.

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Images in the thermal spectrum with higher resolution, are required for detailed geology studies, which are very necessary within the environmental and economic field.

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Images in the thermal spectrum with higher resolution, are required for detailed geology studies, which are very necessary within the environmental and economic field.

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Estamos en la zona sur

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Universities are working with National Agencies to develop risk mapping for critical municipalities through the Mapathons as the first steps to create GEO-Labs. Also, thinking  to support the Charter Activations in a future..

Paraguay is creating a GEO lab in Paraguayan Space Agency to establish stable capabilities at the country level.

Multi hazards assessment in Guatemala and Costa Rica uses Environmental Fragility indexes to support development plans and simplify environmental licensing for Development projects and now starting in Puerto Rico. Cooperation between national, , and regional agencies.

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How do we get agencies whose mandate is to monitor agricultural landscapes and crop productivity to integrate SAR in their operations. These are not necessarily SAR experts, but want to know how to integrate this technology into their operational activities. We need to share case studies and road maps, in addition to training. (Heather McNairn, AAFC, Canada)

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Regional, State, and Municipal end user awareness of training resources: A list of associations to act as boundary organizations to reach these sectors at large. 

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Regional, State, and Municipal end user awareness of training resources: A list of associations to act as boundary organizations to reach these sectors at large. 

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Pilar mentioned Regional Alliances for DRR, these types of organizations.

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ESA and the WorldWater project are starting a new algorithm intercomparison for water detection. The focus is Sentinel data, but also includes Landsat. Final results will be shared with the community and should contribute to improved methods globally. (Brian Killough, CEOS, NASA)

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Leveraging SERVIR tools for flood prep / response in Central America

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Leveraging SERVIR tools for flood prep / response in Central America

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The GEOGloWS Hydroviewer and HYDRA Floods platforms / algorithms developed for other SERVIR regions were used by CEPREDENAC and CRRH for prep for / response to Hurricanes Eta and Iota in Central America in Nov. 2020. These organizations - are currently exploring how to integrate both approaches into their operations.

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GEOGloWS ECMWF Streamflow HydroViewer (forecasting), HYDRA Floods (post-event impact assessment)

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GEOGloWS ECMWF Streamflow HydroViewer (forecasting), HYDRA Floods (post-event impact assessment)

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Systematic evaluations of needs are lacking; most of the information gathered on needs is from anecdotal observations from / experiences with countries

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At ESPOL, we have build a BOT for searching CB opportunities in any language. We have used 164 key words. We will produce a tutorial, but I believe it is simple enough to use it straight forward. We are testing it right now. Hopefully, it could be available by May. (Pilar)

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CSIRO is sponsoring a series of 3 workshops for the Americas in April to Aug 2021. The focus is on EO benefits and challenges and identification of specific problems that can be addressed with data cube technologies. The workshops will be conduced in Spanish. (Brian Killough, CEOS, NASA)

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The NASA-SICA Joint Statement (2019) sets up a framework for collaboration in Central America + Dominican Republic

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The NASA-SICA Joint Statement (2019) sets up a framework for collaboration in Central America + Dominican Republic

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Copernicus is funding outreach activities in Central America

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Copernicus is funding outreach activities in Central America

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NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) Disaster Themed Trainings

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NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) Disaster Themed Trainings

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16 online webinar series since 2012 has seen great participation from the Americas (over 1900 different organizations)

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ARSET provides in-person and online trainings focusing on access and applications of remote sensing observations for disaster management. The trainings are aimed at facilitating disaster monitoring, preparedness, and relief activities by using remote sensing observations. Topics can include extreme rainfall, floods, landslides, hurricanes, earthquakes, and oil slicks.

Courses are appropriate for policy makers, regulatory agencies, NGOs, and other applied science professionals.
Disasters Lesson Plan

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ARSET Disasters Trainings | NASA Applied Sciences

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ARSET provides in-person and online trainings focusing on access and applications of remote sensing observations for disaster management. The trainings are aimed at facilitating disaster monitoring, preparedness, and relief activities by using remote sensing observations. Topics can include extreme rainfall, floods, landslides, hurricanes, earthquakes, and oil slicks.

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Deploying Virtual Capacity Building Opportunities 

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Deploying Virtual Capacity Building Opportunities 

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The Inter-American Academy provides classroom, E-Learning, webinar education, and training opportunities, offering participants flexible options to gain knowledge, skills, and abilities to use social, economic, environmental, and other Earth data.
AmeriGEO is looking for partners in the region to promote training opportunities through this platform. The Academy is able to provide the platform, document database, and technical support for these trainings.
If you are interested in having a training featured on the site, please contact the Academy Coordinator (america.alvarez13@outlook.com )

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Since a few year ago, experts from several UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices and other Centres of Excellence have developed step by step procedures to process satellite imagery to generate specific types of maps.  In the case of floods these UN-SPIDER Recommended Practices include flood hazard mapping, flood mapping and changes in the temporal and spatial behaviour of floods due to land-use changes in the upper part of basins.  These are developed using open software, and open imagery.  These are available at https://www.un-spider.org/advisory-support/recommended-practices.

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Since a few year ago, experts from several UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices and other Centres of Excellence have developed step by step procedures to process satellite imagery to generate specific types of maps.  In the case of floods these UN-SPIDER Recommended Practices include flood hazard mapping, flood mapping and changes in the temporal and spatial behaviour of floods due to land-use changes in the upper part of basins.  These are developed using open software, and open imagery.  These are available at https://www.un-spider.org/advisory-support/recommended-practices.

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SICA's disasters + hydro-met secretariats, CEPREDENAC and CRRH respectively, are key organizations

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Per Steven Ramage (GEO)'s comment yesterday, there is a large community of Earth Observation users on social media, and engaging with them is a significant, untapped opportunity

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WMO VLab for Education and Training in Satellite Meteorology

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WMO VLab for Education and Training in Satellite Meteorology

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https://www.wmo-sat.info/vlab/
check out the calendar link for training activities
Similar to CEOS, there are Regional Initiatives. For the Americas and the Caribbean, check out https://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/training/rmtc/
In particular, we have a monthly climate and weather discussion (Regional Focus Group) that connects many people across many countries and organizations.

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Established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS), the Virtual Laboratory for Training and Education in Satellite Meteorology (VLab) is a global network of specialized training centres and meteorological satellite operators working together to improve the utilisation of data and products from meteorological and environmental satellites.

Eight satellite operators are involved: CMA, CONAE, EUMETSAT, INPE, JMA, KMA,

NOAA and ROSHYDROMET, and thirteen training centres - called Centres of Excellence (CoEs) - located in Argentina (Buenos Aires and Cordoba), Australia (Melbourne), Barbados (Bridgetown), Brazil (Cachoeira Paulista), China (Beijing and Nanjing), Costa Rica (San Jose), Kenya (Nairobi), Morocco (Casablanca), Niger (Niamey), Oman (Muscat), Republic of Korea (Gwanghyewon), the Russian Federation (Moscow and St Petersburg) and South Africa (Pretoria). Three CoEs are linked to universities (Buenos Aires, St. Petersburg and Nanjing).

The CoEs, working closely with one or more of the satellite operators and often co-located with WMO Regional Training Centres, are established in all WMO Regions to meet user needs for increased skills and knowledge in using satellite data within their Region.

The VLab activities are also supported by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), the European Virtual Organisation for Meteorological Training (Eumetcal), the EUMETSAT sponsored international training project (EUMeTrain), and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) COMET Training Program of the United States.

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VLab | WMO-CGMS VIRTUAL LABORATORY FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN SATELLITE METEOROLOGY

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Established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS), the Virtual Laboratory for Training and Education in Satellite Meteorology (VLab) is a global network of specialized training centres and meteorological satellite operators working together to improve the utilisation of data and products from meteorological and environmental satellites.

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From Sergio Camacho: There is a need for CB materials (training manuals, success stories, lessons learned, best practices) in languages other than English (Spanish, French, Portuguese). 

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From Sergio Camacho: There is a need for CB materials (training manuals, success stories, lessons learned, best practices) in languages other than English (Spanish, French, Portuguese). 

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From Sergio Camacho; Develop and deploy a regionally calibrated flood detection system that can produce near-real-time products that can be connected to vulnerability and impact factors.

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From Sergio Camacho; Develop and deploy a regionally calibrated flood detection system that can produce near-real-time products that can be connected to vulnerability and impact factors.

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While SERVIR-Amazonia's services focus largely on land cover change, there are opportunities for synergies (e.g. AST project led by Jim Nelson of BYU).

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From Sergio Camacho: Identify, bring together and expand communities of practice in the use of EO in flood Early Warning, risk reduction and emergency response. This can be done under and support the EOTECH process.

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From Sergio Camacho: Identify, bring together and expand communities of practice in the use of EO in flood Early Warning, risk reduction and emergency response. This can be done under and support the EOTECH process.

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 It would be great to have an application that showcases the benefit of using satellite imagery of different resolutions in flood management

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 It would be great to have an application that showcases the benefit of using satellite imagery of different resolutions in flood management

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A success story resulting from ARSET online trainings: A professor from University of San Simón (Bolivia) utilized skills acquired from these trainings enabled her to make more comprehensive disaster management recommendations, provide data to support territory management for indigenous peoples, train peers in remote sensing applications, and use web tools to create maps and assist the local government with disaster response.

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A success story resulting from ARSET online trainings: A professor from University of San Simón (Bolivia) utilized skills acquired from these trainings enabled her to make more comprehensive disaster management recommendations, provide data to support territory management for indigenous peoples, train peers in remote sensing applications, and use web tools to create maps and assist the local government with disaster response.

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Updated land cover / land use datasets as inputs for flood modelling

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Updated land cover / land use datasets as inputs for flood modelling

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In the case of Latin American countries with active volcanoes, we need to look into the combined effect of intense rainfall leading to the transfer of material from the active cones of volcanoes to the flood plains via floods

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In the case of Latin American countries with active volcanoes, we need to look into the combined effect of intense rainfall leading to the transfer of material from the active cones of volcanoes to the flood plains via floods

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I join the ideas of Moises to have lidar images of high resolution, which help us to carry out simulations of extreme events, in cities where, generally a year, there are at least economic losses due to floods caused by convective rains, such is the case of the central depression of the state of Chiapas, Mexico.INEGI's Mexico program with lidar versions of medium resolution that have been obtained for a long time.

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I join the ideas of Moises to have lidar images of high resolution, which help us to carry out simulations of extreme events, in cities where, generally a year, there are at least economic losses due to floods caused by convective rains, such is the case of the central depression of the state of Chiapas, Mexico.INEGI's Mexico program with lidar versions of medium resolution that have been obtained for a long time.

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Find our training material in our portal https://rus-copernicus.eu/portal/

The tutorial for flood mapping is under The RUS Library -> Train with RUS -> Risk monitoring
Check also out the related video https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB01WjameYMvL7-XfI8vRIA/videos

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It is a paid service provided by ONDA, one of the five cloud-based platforms (DIAS) developed on European Commission request to facilitate access to Copernicus data and information. Through this service users can access Copernicus data, computing power, processing tools and receive dedicated training on different application fields, including the use of Sentinel data for Floods.
Find more info and contact information at https://www.onda-dias.eu/cms/education/