Natural Disaster Monitoring by

SensorWeb Technology in Thailand

Veerachai Tanpipat, D.Eng.

ดร.วีรชัย ตันพิพัฒน ์iamtanpipat@hotmail.com

THAIFLOOD

Steve Chien, Joshua Doubleday, David McLaren, and Daniel Tran

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA

Poramate Minsiri (Bundit Center)

Chainarong Sukumprasertsri (Fat Shore, Wind Power)

Siri Akaakara, Anuchit Ratanasuwan

National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department of Thailand

Daniel Mandl, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA

Table of Contents

•Sensorweb

•Forest fire sensorweb

•Flood sensorweb

•ThaiFlood

•Thai Citizen Observation Program (TCOP)

•Conclusions

What is SensorWeb Technology?

http://eo1.gsfc.nasa.gov/new/sensorWebExp/index.html

The main objective of the sensorweb activity is to create an

interoperable environment for a diverse set of satellite sensors via the use of software and the Internet.

Developed by NASA-GSFC/JPL

Triggered by MODIS fire alert email!!! By FIRMS

19 February 2011

Earth Observing 1 (EO-1), Advanced Land Imager (ALI)

Flood

sensorweb

Real-time Observation

Event Detection/

Forecast

-Criteria

-Thresholds

NEWS

1. Terra/Aqua MODIS

Low res. data

(250 m.-1km./pixel)

2. TRMM

Satellite

Imaging

Ground

station

(Telemeters)

1.Rain: HAII, 72-hr

accumulation)

2.Water level: RID,

MRC, HAII (Feb 12)

DSS

-Warning

-Monitoring

EO1 image

acquisition High resolution data

(10 m./pixel)

Retasking

Image processing

& classification

Visualization

(Monitoring)

eg. GIS

Modeling

1.WRF (3x3 km2)

2. HAM Weather

forecast

Hydrologic

al/Hydrauli

cs

1. SWAT

2. MIKEBASIN

Observation & monitoring

(HAII Focus )

Satellite

Monitoring

Detection

Detection

Cross-verification

BY T., Porranee, HAII

Locations

where

EO-1 were

triggered

for flood monitoring

ALI, Ayutthaya 9 DEC 2012

Bang Pra Ma, Supanburi,

ALI quick look; Acquired 14 Feb 2012

Email alert from ASE Operation at NASA JPL

ThaiFlood UAV Team

Big Bags

ThaiFlood UAV Team

ThaiFlood: www.thaiflood.com

http://situation.thaiflood.com/

The "International

Symposium on

Artificial Intelligence,

Robotics and

Automation in Space

(i-SAIRAS)“ 2012,

ESA, 4-6 September 2012, Turin, Italy

Thai Citizen Observation Program (TCOP) •Objective is to monitor flood by citizen network

information sharing.

•Private weather stations real time data feeding.

•Present information at the same website (Google

Map)

•Mimi the idea from Citizen Weather Observation

Program (CWOP) in the USA.

Thai citizen observation program (TCOP)

There are only 3 stations installed so far; one at

DanLoas Moutain Range, Sri Kil, Korat and two more

at Ke-Re-Wong and Krung-Ching Moo 8

Nakornsrithammarat

Thailand Information Center

Conclusions • Thailand SensorWeb will last until at least until

early 2013

• The operation consider to be a successful one

as we can provide information to both

government agencies and the public

• Thai Flood is a unique people networking

• Thai Citizen Observation Program (TCOP) will

install more weather stations in the near future to

expand people network.

• In the near future, we will be able to use VIIRS

fire products to trigger the fire sensorweb.

Acknowledgements

•Dr. Diane Davies (FIRMS, U. of Maryland),

•Dr. Chris Elvidge (NOAA/NGDC)

•Dr. Jeff Schmaltz (NASA/GSFC-MRRS),

•Dr. Stuart Frye (NASA/GSFC),

•Dr. Steve Chien, David McLaren, Daniel Tran (NASA/JPL),

•Dr. Daniel Mandl (NASA GSFC),

•Dr. Dan Slayback (NASA NRT Flood Map),

•Dr. Shinichi Sobue (JAXA),

•Dr. Royal Chidon (HAII),

•Poramate Minsiri (Bundit Center-ThaiFlood),

•Chainarong Sukumprasertsri (Fat Shore, Wind Power and

ThaiFlood),

•Siri Akaakara, Anuchit Ratanasuwan (DNP)

Thank You Very Much