UNESCOPakistanFloodProject“StrategicStrengtheningofFloodWarningandManagementCapacity(Phase2)”

TakanoriMiyoshi

SatelliteApplicationsandOperationCenter(SAOC)

JapanAerospaceExplorationAgency(JAXA)

7 June 2017

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Background

ØOccurrence 38%

Asia

ØAffected90%Asia: 5,294,962,652

ØDamage

World :2,562,390 millions US$

60%

Asia: 1,226,204 millions US$

World : 10,319Asia: 3,949

Source: ‘ADRC-Natural Disasters Data Book 2014’ originated in EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database – http://www.emdat.be/, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels (Belgium)

48%

ØKilledAsia: 1,171,945World: 1,942,334

World: 5,905,233,7272

Asiaandnaturaldisasters

Asiahasbeenseriouslydamagedbynaturaldisasters

overthelast30years(1985-2014).

2010 Floods in Pakistan

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ImagesoftheswollenriversinNowshera District

(36squarekilometers,left:August5,2010;right:June18,2010)

Taken by AVNIR-2 onboard ALOS

Ø Began in late July 2010

Ø Caused by heavy monsoon rains

Ø Affected the Indus River basin in Pakistan

Ø Caused more than 1700 deaths

Ø Affected about 20 million people

Ø Property damages are estimated to amount more than $40 billion.

2010 Floods in Pakistan

4Copyright: BBC

Had there been for

Ø Information about heavy rains

Ø Hazard map for preparation and evacuation

Ø The flood warning and management capacity

The damages might have been avoided or alleviated.

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UNESCOPakistanProject

UNESCO Pakistan flood project “StrategicStrengtheningofFloodWarningandManagementCapacity”

ØFundedbytheGovernmentofJapan(theMinistryofForeignAffairs,theJapanInternationalCooperationAgency(JICA))

ØImplementingAgency:UNESCO

ØPartnerAgencies:Pakistaniagencies(PakistanMeteorologicalDepartment(PMD),PakistanSpaceandUpperAtmosphereResearchCommission(SUPARCO),FederalFloodCommission(FFC),PakistanWaterandPowerDevelopmentAuthority(WAPDA),NationalDisasterManagementAuthorityPakistan(NDMA)),InternationalCentreforWaterHazardandRiskManagement(ICHARM),andJAXA

ØMainActivities:

Ø (a)floodearlywarningsystemdevelopmentusingICHARM’sIntegratedFloodAnalysisSystem(IFAS)

Ø (b)capacity-bulding inPakistantomanagethefloods6

Flow/water level

Ground rainfall and Satellite-based rainfall

Run-off analysis River discharge, Water level, Rainfall distribution

Global Geological data for modeling Elevation data, Land use data, etc.

AquifermodelRiver coursemodel

Surfacemodel

inpu

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GSMaP_NRTGSMaP_MVK+3B42RT(V6)3B42RT(V5)QMORPHCMORPH

Integrated Flood Analysis System

Reduce/Prevent flood damage

Promoting safe evacuation

Flood forecasting/warning

Calculation

Overview -Integrated Flood Analysis System (IFAS) -Flood forecasting system using satellite data

Model creation

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UNESCO Pakistan flood project “StrategicStrengtheningofFloodWarningandManagementCapacity”

<Phase1(August2011- September2014)>Achievements:• PracticalmodelforfloodforecastinupperIndusandKabulriverbasinwasestablishedusingGSMaP andIFAS

• FloodandinundationsimulationlowerIndusbasiswasdevelopedwithIFASandRRI

<Phase2(April2015– September2018:currentphase)>Objectives:• Toestablishtechnicalfoundationforsustainablecapacitydevelopmentonthefloodmanagement,forecasting,earlywarningandfloodhazardanalysisinPakistanagencies

• TechnicalstudiestopromotestrengtheningofcooperationwithIndusriverbasincountriesfortransboundaryfloodmanagementanddatasharing

• Capacity-buildingandeducationtocommunityonfloodmanagementforproperutilizationoffloodhazardinformationandtools 8

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JAXA’scontributiontoUNESCOPakistanproject

FloodHazardMappingusingSpaceBasedTechnologies

http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/FE18739F7107DEF285257773006EA67E-map.pdf

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Database of historic events

LULC map

River inventory

GSMaP subsets

…and moreIncluding methodology development

GSMaP:GlobalSatelliteMappingofPrecipitation

TRMMPR/TMIGPMDPR/GMI

AquaAMSR-EGCOM-WAMSR2

GeostationarySatellite

GSMaPrainfall

in0.1-deggridandhourly

DMSPSSM/I,SSMIS

Calculatecloudmovingvectors

NOAA&MetOpAMSU-A/MHS

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DevelopedforGPM(globalprecipitationmeasurement)mission.

Highprecipitationandhighresolutionglobalprecipitationmapbyusingmultiplesatellite-bornemicrowaveradiometers.

Real-time correction

Ø Location planning of PMD’s new AWSAspect of efficient combination of ground and satellite observationØ Real-time connection to AWS networkAdding connection function to GSMaP-IF

AWS location plan from GSMaP’s point of view

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Real-time correction

Ø Location planning of PMD’s new AWSAspect of efficient combination of ground and satellite observationØ Real-time connection to AWS networkAdding connection function to GSMaP-IF

PMD’S

AWS

networkReal-time connection function to

AWS network

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Theyear2018willmarkthe50thanniversary

ofthefirstUnitedNationsConferenceonthe

ExplorationandPeacefulUsesofOuterSpace

7Thematicpriorities

(1) Globalpartnershipinspaceexplorationandinnovation(2) Legal regime of outer space and global space governance: current

and future perspectives(3) Enhanced information exchange on space objects and events(4) International framework for space weather services(5) Strengthened space cooperation for global health(6) International cooperation towards low-emission and resilient

societies (7) Capacity-building for the 21st Century

wereapprovedbyCOPUOSinJune2016

Theyear2018willmarkthe50thanniversary

ofthefirstUnitedNationsConferenceonthe

ExplorationandPeacefulUsesofOuterSpace

UNISPACE+50thematicprioirities andtheUNESCOPakistanproject

AmongthesevenThematicpriorities(TPs),UNESCOprojectcontributes

significantlytoTP6andTP.

Futureplan

ØFurtherupgradingoftheIFsoftwaretoimprovethe

accuracyofGSMaP.

ØCapacity-buildingforlocalauthoritiestoeffectively

utilizethefloodmonitoringandwarningsystem

ØInternationalWorkshop(in2018,placetobe

determined)

Thosewhoareinterestedinthisprojectarewelcometoattendtheworkshop.Thosewhoareinterestedincontributingtothisprojectaremorethanwelcome!

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Thankyou!

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