Indian Space Research Organisation Department of Space Government of India

Strengthening Regional Resilience with Geo-Information Programme on Trans-boundary Cooperation in South and South East Asia for geospatial information

January 18, 2018

SHANTANU BHATAWDEKAR

DIRECTOR, EARTH OBSERVATIONS SYSTEM

- Avenues and Requisites for Successful Collaboration -

• Data Availability & Value added services

• International Charter & Sentinel Asia

• CARTOSAT-1 DEM

• SAARC – Urban Sprawl / RS Applications

• ASEAN Facility

• Bhuvan Services

• In-situ Observation Network • SAARC STORM

• Capacity Building • Sri lanka/Myanmar Drought

• Geo-GLAM

• Geoportal Development

• BRICS

• CSSTEAP / ITEC

• South Asia Satellite

Sentinel Asia

2008-2017 – 91 events supported

2016 – 18 Activations (10 countries)

2017 – 16 Activations (9 countries)

International Charter

2016 2017

Activations: 28

Countries: 20

No. of scenes : 133

Activations: 29

Countries:22

No. of scenes : 140

Seamless Surface for India

& neighbouring countries

Elevation in meters

Terrain Data for India and Adjacent Landmass

Digital Elevation Model Free Downloadable from Bhuvan

Hydrological Modelling Infrastructure Planning Power Potential Assessment Land/Water Resources Development ……

• Hydrological Modelling • Infrastructure Planning • Power Potential Assessment • Land/Water Resources

Development • ……

Bhutan

1991 2014

Satellite data for the city of Dhaka

Urban built-up for the years 1991, 1999, 2009 and 2014

1999 2009 2014

118.01% 249.09% 299.90%

Increase in urban built-up wrt 1991

•Spatial temporal patterns of Urban changes - 1991, 1999, 2004 & 14

•Long-term Urban Dynamics (6 Cities of 5 SAARC Countries)

•Chittagong & Dhaka (Bangladesh) ; Herat (Afghanistan)

•Kathmandu (Nepal) ; Thimphu (Bhutan)

•Batticola, Sri Lanka)

Remote Sensing Application Initiatives for South Asian Countries

Horticulture crop - Inventory of Grapes Kabul province, Afghanistan

Jute crop mapping Madaripur, Bangladesh

Delineation of transplanted Aman rice Jessore district, Bangladesh

Delineation and inventory of rice cropped area 12 districts of Sri Lanka

Long-term changes in forest cover South Asian Countries

Forest type Bhutan, Nepal and Afghanistan

To analyse forest fragmentation Maldives

Ground Water Mapping Kandy District, Sri Lanka

Geological mapping Logar valley, Afghanistan

Surface Water Bodies Sri Lanka

Estimation of hydrological fluxes South Asian Countries

Snow cover extent monitoring Bhutan and Nepal

Urban Sprawl Batticalova (Sri Lanka) , Chittagong, Dhaka (Bangladesh),

Herat (Afghanistan), Khatmandu (Nepal) , Thimpu (Bhutan)

Floods Sri Lanka

Landslide inventory Sindhupalchowk, Nepal

Agriculture

Forest

Ground Water

Water

Urban

Disaster

Forest cover changes in Nepal 1930-2014

Grape Cultivation in Afghanistan

2016 Seasonal maximum snow Cover

in Bhutan (2nd fortnight of Jan 2016)

• To establish a Tracking, Data Reception

Station and Data Processing Facility

• Training in Space Technology & Applications

• Framework Agreement in Sep 2016 & ISRO-

MONRE IA under discussion

Regional Cooperation - India-ASEAN space cooperation

• Remote Sensing data to the ASEAN countries - FREE OF

ACCESS FEE. Assured continuity of data from

RESOURCESAT & OCEANSAT series.

• Sharing of ISRO’s techniques in satellite data processing for

suite of applications

• Capacity building of the ASEAN personnel in Remote sensing,

Satellite Meteorology, Satellite communication, Atmospheric

Science and customized training modules.

India would provide

data of ~ 1 M USD /

year to ASEAN free

of charge.

Bhuvan for South Asian Countries

SAARC STORM (Severe Thunderstorms : Observations and Regional Modeling) Project

• The project aims for improved short range forecasting and monitoring of severe

thunderstorm over India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.

• SAARC Meteorological Research Centre (SMRC), Dhaka is the coordinating

agency for this regional initiative under SAARC.

Commitment of ISRO is to set up

- 24 AWS and 1 GPS Radiosonde station in Bangladesh

- 16 AWS, 2 GPS Radiosonde and 1 Doppler Weather Radar in Nepal

- 10 AWS and 1 GPS Radiosonde in Bhutan

50 AWS

4 GPS Sonde stations

1 DWR

• 10 AWS and one Radio Sonde Station set up

in Bhutan.

• 1 AWS installed in Bangladesh.

• 16 AWS and 2 ground station elements of

Sonde station delivered at Nepal.

Drought Monitoring Mechanism under ESCAP

Agricultural drought monitoring mechanism in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan

SOUTH ASIA SATELLITE – Enhancing Partnership for Sustainable Development

LIFT-OFF : 16:57 IST 05-05-2017

12 Ku Band Transponders

> 12 years Mission Life

GSLV-F09 India has made a pioneering contribution by

realizing the South Asia satellite towards

Sustainable Development by connecting the

nations in the region.

Potential Applications

VSAT

Tele-medicine Tele-education

DTH e-Governance

Broadcasting

• Ground segment terminals established in Bhutan, Maldives & Afganistan

• Demonstration of services like TV transmission, Video Conferencing

• Access to Bhuvan & MOSDAC

Capacity building for the neighboring countries

Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS)

at Dehradun

• Offers 8-weeks course on RS & GIS

under Indian Technical Economic

Cooperation (ITEC) sponsored by MEA

UN affiliated Centre for Space Science and

Technology Education in Asia and the

Pacific (CSSTEAP), Dehra Dun (Nov 1,

1995)

• 55 Countries of East Asia; South-East

Asia; South Asia; Central Asia; Pacific

• Offers short-term training courses &

9-months PG Diploma on space

technology applications

• 5 Themes: RS & GIS; SATCOM, SATMET,

Space Science & GNSS

• Uses facility & expertise of IIRS, SAC,

PRL

More than 1600 officials from 93

Countries are offered training by IIRS &

CSSTEAP

ITEC 400 professionals from 17 neighboring countries

BRICS RS Satellite Constellation

STEP1: form virtual constellation consisting

of several operating RS satellites

STEP 2: form actual constellation

Planned contributions: 5 satellites and 5

ground stations contributed by BRICS space

agencies

• AEB and CNSA : CBERS-04

• AEB : Cuiaba Station

• Roscosmos: Kanopus-VI; Moscow Station

• ISRO: Resourcesat-2; Shadnagar Station

• CNSA : GF-1 and ZY-3/02; Sanya Station

• SANSA: Hartebeesthook Station located

CBERS 04 Kanopu

s-V1 Resourcesat-2 GF-1 ZY-3/02

5 10 20 40 80 73 2.5 12 5.8 23.5 56 2 8 16 2.7

2.5 6

International events on disaster hosted by India in past 1 year

UN/India Workshop on EO Data for Disaster

Management and Risk Reduction : Asian Experiences, March 8-10, 2016 Hyderabad

Asia-Pacific Space Leaders Forum

On Disaster Risk Reduction UN-ESCAP/ISRO

Nov 2, 2016, New Delhi

Asia-Pacific Space Leaders Forum

On Disaster Risk Reduction UN-

ESCAP/ISRO

Nov 2, 2016, New Delhi

Asian Conference on Remote Sensing

On Space Applications: Touching

Human Lives

October 23-27, 2017, New Delhi

SAFE (Space Applications

For Environment) to

address solution to various

environmental problems

with space technology

24th session of the Asia-Pacific Regional

Space Agency Forum (APRSAF-24) on Space Technology for Enhanced

Governance and Development

Nov 14 -17, 2017 Bengaluru

GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring initiative (GEO-GLAM)

and Asia-Rice Crop Estimation and Monitoring (Asia-RiCE)

Asia-Pacific Initiatives