Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development

The role of RCMRD; Linking Space Technology, socio-economies

& Sustainable Development

Byron AnangweProduct Development Officer Presentation at UN/ESA/Turkey Workshop

RCMRD HistoryIt is an Inter-Governmental Organization and currently has 15 contracting Member Stat

Established in Nairobi, Kenya in 1975 under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the then Organization of African Unity

Conference of Ministers

Governing Council

Technical Committee National Geo-information Advisory Committee

Appointments, Promotion &Remuneration Committee

Finance Committee

Office of the Director General

Office of the Deputy Director General• Training Co-ordination Section

- Geo-information Training- Information Technology Training

• Database Management, Archiving & Dissemination Section• Information Technology Support Section• Project Co-ordination and Quality Assurance Office• Product Development & Marketing Office• Small Satellites Program

Internal Audit

Remote Sensing, GIS and MappingDepartment

• Environmental Management• Early Warning Systems• Photogrammetry• GIS & Database Management• Digital Mapping & Cartography

Land Survey & Management Department

• Geodetic & Hydrographic• Cadastral & Engineering• Land Information Management• Engineering Services

Finance & AdministrationDepartment• Finance Section

- Accounting- Procurement

• Human Resources Management & Administration Section- Personnel Unit- Administration Unit

RCMRD Organogram

RCMRD spearheads roles in:

• Creation of national and regional initiatives on space applications

• Promote Awareness of space technology

• Project Implementation & Building Capacity

• Formulation of data policies and infrastructure

• Acquisition & development of appropriate technologies

• Space Science R & D

Space Activities at the RCMRD

Geo-Information Trends

Earliest Space Application Activities at the RCMRD

Time Activity

1988 – 1993 Qualitative analysis of CCD for food security assessmentIn the IGAD countries. Funded by the Japanese Govt. through FAO in the project GCPS/RAF/231/PJN.

1996 – 1997 Qualitative analysis of CCD and NDVI in the IGAD countriesand Rwanda and Burundi. Funded by the French Govt. through FAO in the project GCP/RAF/310/FRA

1995 – 2000 Qualitative end of season crop yield forecasting and environmental analysis in the IGAD countries using ET data derived from Meteosat satellite. Co-executed byRCMRD and EARS and funded by the Dutch Govt. Inthe REFEWS Project.

Other Activities………. cont

• Food Security and environmental monitoring (USGS/Fewsnet, ICPAC, DLCO, WFP, ILRI, LEWIS, GMFS)

• DRASTIC Modeling, Flood Modeling and Prediction (USGS)

• Disease Modeling and Prediction– Rift Valley Fever (WRI, AU-IBAR, UoN, USGS) - Mapping of HIV/AIDS on the Mombasa – Kampala highway (Manitoba University, UoN)

• Land Suitability, Land degradation mapping and monitoring - Deforestation (Mau Forest)- Land use / Land cover change (Kordofan Region, South Sudan)- Uganda

• Capacity building - Training in the use of modern Geo-information technologies in early warning & food

security, disease mapping, land degradation, disaster risk management

• Monitoring urban sprawl (Informal settlements)

• Policy Development for Space Applications

Spatial Technologies promoted at RCMRD

GNSS at RCMRD (AFREF)

Geo & HumanHealth

Food Security: Identification of hot spots

Predicting Disease Outbreaks: Rift Valley Fever in GHA

Agri-activities at the RCMRD

FUTURE ACTIVITIES

Tse-Tse Mapping, Swaziland

Humanitarian Interventions

Agriculture Statistics - USGS/RLCM

Crop Interpretation

Mapping of Gums & Resins

Mapping of Gums & Resins………… cont

What are the issues?• proper planning

• sound policy formulation

• Timely service delivery to people

• Allocation of Resources

AIMTo improve decision making processes in environmental resource and environmental risk management based on EO Technologies

REGIONAL THEMATIC ACTIONREC IGADLand Degradation Mitigation & Natural Habitat Conservation (RIC ICPAC)

REC SADCAgricultural & Environmental Resource Management (RIC BDMS)

Data access through Eumetcast and Internet

AMESD Value Chain

GARNET-E/EU-GMES

Emergency Response / Risk Reduction

• Knowledge/Information Exchange (use of disaster charter)

• Service Development between European and African Service Providers

• Projects identified• Reference mapping• Rapid mapping• Multi Risk Mapping• Camp mapping for displaced persons

SERVIRINTERACTIVEDSS & Tools

Forest FiresLand Use and

AgricultureIWRM/ICZM

Weather

Biodiversity

Water & Energy Balance

Natural Disasters

Climate Change

SustainableTourism

Share Acquire

Use / Create

Discover• Managed knowledge base• Catalog services • Directory services• Browse & search fxns• Notification services

• Ground receiving station• Data acquisition services• Data processing services• Data archive• Geodata services

• Visualization tools• Analysis (services & tools)• Forecast/scenario creation• Support for interoperability• Support for product use

• Metadata authoring tools• Community building tools• Community knowledge base• Feedback mechanisms• Mitigating barriers to sharing

Web portal Event monitoring tools

Priorities for FY10

System / network performance Operations management Classification schemes

SERVIR Platform: User Perspective

Predicting Flooding: Nzoia River Basin

• Identification of flooded areas using satellite data• Distribution of near real time products

Decision Support: Flooding

Decision Support: Climate Mapper

Malaria Risk Mapping

Active Capacity Building initiatives

• Weather and Climate Modeling• Early Warning• Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation • Policy Development• Humanitarian Planning • Satellite and Vector Data Management• Interactive 3-D Spatial Visualizations• IWRM / ICZM• ICT

LAST WORDS

• There is a rapidly growing demand for efficient access to fundamental spatial data

• There is need for understanding the talk of the people

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Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development(RCMRD)

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Byron Anangwebanangwe@rcmrd.org