Draft as of September 13
CAPACITY BUILDING IN ASIA
"EARTH OBSERVATIONS IN THE SERVICE OF WATER MANAGEMENT"
Co-hosted by:
IGWCO, GEO, JAXA, UT, AIT, UNU, UN-ESCAP, WMO, WCRP and ICHARM
September 26-28, 2006
Ramagarden Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
DAY 1- Workshop for Policy Makers
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
08:00 – 08:30 Registration
08:30 – 08:45 Welcome (Prof. Sudip Rakshit, Vice President of Research, AIT)
Wecome (T. Takebayashi, Deputy Director, MEXT)
Wecome (H. Kozawa, Associate Executive Director, JAXA)
08:45-09:00 Keynote speech (Dr. Siripong Hungspreug, Director-General, Department of Water Resources, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand (TBC))
PLENARY 1: OVERVIEW (Chair: C. Ishida, Planning Manager, JAXA)
Plenary one will provide an overview of the current state of water management issues in Asian countries. This session will highlight concerns and usage of technology and science in water management.
09:00 – 09:15 Overview of GEO activities for Water and Capacity Building, and expectation of this Workshop (Antti Herlevi, Senior Programme Officer, GEO Secretariat)
09:15 – 09:30 Overview of IGWCO and its Capacity Building activities including the result of March Workshop (R. Lawford, Director, International GEWEX Project Office)
09:30 – 09:45 Report of activity on Asian Water Cycle Symposium (T. Koike, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo)
09:45 – 10:05 BREAK
PLENARY 2: CAPACITY BUILDING AND BEST PRACTICES FOR APPLICATIONS OF EARTH OBSERVATIONS FOR WATER MANAGEMENT- INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL PROGRAMS
(Chair : T. Koike, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo)
Observing systems including satellites for water management are providing success stories all over Asia. Plenary two will highlight some of those projects serving water management concerns in Asian countries.
10:05 – 10:20 CEOS/TIGER (ESA[TBC])
10:20 – 10:35 GISTDA (Surachai, (TBC))
10:35 – 10:50 LAPAN (O. Roswintiarti, Head, Natural Resources and Environmental Monito)
10:50 – 11:05 JAXA/Earth Observation Program and Water Management Services (R. Oki, Senior Researcher,JAXA )
11:05 – 11:20 WMO (R. Lawford, Director, International GEWEX Project Office)
11:20 – 11:35 UN-ESCAP (Ti Le-Huu, Officer-in-Charge of Water Resources, Environment and Sustainable Development Division)
11:35 – 11:50 UNU (S. Herath, Senior Academic Programme Officer, UN University)
11:50 – 12:05 AIT (L. Samarakoon, Director, Geoinfomatics Center)
12:05 – 12:20 Mekon River Committee (Hong Tien, Program Coordinator)
12:20 – 13:30 LUNCH
PLENARY 3: CAPACITY BUILDING AND BEST PRACTICES FOR APPLICATIONS OF EARTH OBSERVATIONS FOR WATER MANAGEMENT- NATIONAL PROGRAMS
(Chair: J. Matsumoto, Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
13:30 – 13:40 Activities in Japan (T. Koike, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo)
13:40 – 13:50 Activities in Korea (D.H. Bae, Professor, College of Engineering,Sejong University)
13:50 – 14:00 Activities in China (. Ai, Deputy Director, International Project Office of MAIRS)
14:00 – 14:10 Activities in Mongolia (D. Azzaya, Director,Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology)
14:10 – 14:20 Activities in Vietnam (Thi Tan Thanh Nguyen, Deputy Director, Upper-Air Meteorological Observatory)
14:20 – 14:30 Activities in Lao PDR (Somphanh Vittaya, Hydrologist, Deputy Chief of Hydrological Division)
14:30 – 14:40 Activities in Cambodia (Bunnavuth Ku, Assistant,National Committee for Disaster Management)
14:40 – 15:10 BREAK
(Chair: L. Samarakoon, Director,Geoinfomatics Center)
15:10 – 15:20 Activities in Myanmar (Tin Yi, Staff Officer, Department of Meteorology and Hydrology)
15:20 – 15:30 Activities in Malaysia (A. Majid, Malaysian Center for Remote Sensing)
15:30 – 15:40 Activities in Indonesia (Joesron Loebis, Chairman, Indonesian Hydrology Society)
15:40 – 15:50 Activities in Philippine (R. T. Perez, Wether Services Chief, Flood Forecasting Branch)
15:50 – 16:00 Activities in Sri Lanka (Nihal Rupasinghe, Chairman,Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau)
16:00 – 16:10 Activities in Bhutan (Nado Rinchhen, Deputy Minister, National Environment Commission)
16:10 – 16:20 Activities in Nepal (K. P. Sharma, Deputy Director General, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology)
16:20 – 16:30 Activities in India (R. Kumar, Scientist, National Institute of Hydrogy)
16:30 – 17:00 BREAK
17:00 – 17:10 Activities in Bangladesh (Sazed K. Chowdhury, Superentend Engineer, Bangladesh Water Development Board)
17:10 – 17:20 Activities in Pakistan (Muhammad Akram Kahlown, Chairman, Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources)
17:20 – 17:30 Activities in Iran (Mohammad Javad Abedini, Faculty Member, Civil Engineering)
17:30 – 17:40 Activities in Uzbekistan (Sergey Myagkov, Deputy Director,Hydrometeorological Research Institute)
17:40 – 17:50 Activities in Russia (K. Valeriy, Deputy Head, Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia)
17:50 – 18:00 Activities in Central African Republic (M. Aline,GEO Member,Geosciences and Environment )
18:30 – 21:00 POSTER VIEWING AND RECEPTION
Days 2 and 3– Workshop for Earth observation providers and water resource managers
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
PLENARY 4: AVAILABLE DATA, TOOLS AND OPPORTUNITIES
(Chair: R. Lawford, Director,International GEWEX Project Office,(IGPO))
While data assimilation provides an emerging method for drawing together data sets from various sources into a format that makes them easier to use in water management, new tools are becoming available that enable water managers to visualize the current and future effects of weather and human factors on water through mapping and graphing capabilities. Plenary four will provide examples of these techniques and show their application in different parts of the world, including Asian countries.
08:00 – 08:20 ICHARM (K. Fukami, Chief, Hydrogic Engineering Research Team)
08:20 – 08:40 MAHASRI (J. Matsumoto, Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
08:40 – 09:00 PUB (S. B. Weerakoon, Associate Professor, University of Peradeniya)
09:00 – 09:20 JEPP (M. Yamanaka, Senior Scientist, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology(JAMSTEC))
09:20 – 09:40 CliC in Asian Region (T. Ohata, Program Director, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology(JAMSTEC))
09:40 – 10:00 CEOP (T. Koike, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo)
10:00 – 10:30 BREAK
10:30 – 10:50 MAIRS (L. Ai, Deputy Director, International Project Office of MAIRS)
10:50 – 11:10 ISRO Space Application Center (Y. V. N. Krishnamurthy, Head, Regional Remote Sensing Center)
11:10 – 11:30 Sentinel Asia (H. Kai,Associate Senior Engineer,JAXA)
11:30 – 11:50 River Basin Management (D. H. Bae, Professor,College of Engineering, Sejong University)
11:50 – 12:10 EWBMS: water resources monitoring and flow forecasting on the basis of geostationary satellite data (A. Rosema, Director, Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing)
12:10 – 12:30 ITC: FROM “BUILDING CAPACITY” TO “BUILDING ON CAPACITY” (Ms. Marjan Kreijns)12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH
WORKING GROUPS
Three working groups will be convened to further discuss the topics below. The working groups are to identify available data and tools, and to propose a regional application project which contributes to GEOSS Water Management SBA. It is expected that this dialogue will be interactive. Participants are asked to make no prepared presentations, unless asked by the organizers, so that the working group will be an open, flowing discussion of ideas and sharing of concerns in these areas as they pertain to Asia.
13:30 – 17:30 Break-Out Sessions
Working Group I: Flooding (Co-Chairs: K. Fukami, Chief, Hydrogic Engineering Research Team + Tanka Kafel, Senior Project Researcher, Geoinformatics Center,AIT, Rapporture: H. Kai, Associate Senior Engineer, JAXA )
Working Group II: Drought (Co-Chairs: L .Ai, Deputy Director, International Project Office of MAIRS + D. Azzaya, Director, Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Rapporture: TBD)
Working Group III: Water Quality (Chair: Bilqis Amin Hoque, Chairperson and Head of Research, Environment and Population Research Center, Rapporture: S. Greb, Chief Hydrologist and a Member of IGOS-IGWCO, Department of Natural Resources)
Thursday, September 28, 2006
PLENARY 5: REPORTS FROM WORKING GROUPS
(Chair: R. Lawford, Director, International GEWEX Project Office, Rapporture: Tanka Kafel [TBC])
This plenary will serve as the reporting mechanism for the finds of the working group discussions of the previous day. This will facilitate an open, cross-section of ideas as participants comment on all three working groups; a Q&A session will be included.
08:30 – 09:00 Report from Working Group I: Flooding (Co-Chairs: K. Fukami +Tanka Kafel, Senior Project Researcher,Geoinformatics Center,AIT)
09:00 – 09:30 Report from Working Group II: Drought (Co-Chairs: L. Ai, Deputy Director, International Project Office of MAIRS + D. Azzaya, Director,Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology)
09:30 – 10:00 Report from Working Group III: Water Quality (Chair: Bilqis Amin Hoque, Chairperson and Head of Research, Environment and Population Research Center)10:00 – 10:30 BREAK
10:30 – 12:00 Discussion and wrap-up
CLOSING
12:00-12:10 Closing remarks (T. Koike, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo)
12:10 Adjourn