October 2018

October 26, 2018June 12, 2019

EO to support wetland monitoring

EO to support wetland monitoring:

26 October 2018

The Ramsar COP13 is well underway in Dubai, taking place from the 21st to 29th of October.

Here, the DHI GRAS led activity GlobWetland Africa is making several contributions to the event including presentations at three side events all focusing on how Earth Observation can support wetland monitoring.

The first presentation on “toolboxes” was presented at the side event on “The use of Earth Observation for wetland inventory, assessment and monitoring: An information source for the Ramsar Convention” organized by the STRP to summarize the findings in their latest technical report:

The second presentation contributed to the RAMCEA side event on “Earth Observation Support for Monitoring and Reporting on Wetlands” and summarized our country demonstration for Uganda on wetland inventorying and reporting for SDG 6.6.1.

Finally, the GlobWetland Africa project is taking part in “EO - a game changer for Ramsar Contracting Parties”; a side event jointly organized by ESA and JAXA to present innovative and cost-effective solutions for Ramsar contracting parties.

Read more about GlobWetland Africa here:

EOatDHI part of the DHI GROUP

gras@dhigroup.com
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October 26, 2018June 12, 2019

SDGs a central part of AARSE 2018

SDGs a central part of AARSE 2018:

26 October 2018

The 12th International Conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment is taking place in Egypt this year.

The theme of the conference is Earth Observations (EO) and Geospatial Science in Service of Sustainable Development Goals and will run from the 25th to the 29th of October.

At DHI GRAS, we are heavily involved in this field, which we will demonstrate during a technical session on Space and Geospatial Science for Sustainable Development Goals based on the GPSDD project and our ESA-projects (GlobWetland Africa, EO4SD and EO for SDG).

The technical session will show how EO is supporting development projects in Africa in order to help countries better measure and manage their water resources.

Through practical examples, we demonstrate how the new generation of Sentinel satellites is used for large area monitoring of surface water resources (including wetlands), and agricultural land use.

To read more about each project please visit:
EO for SDG: no website available, so please contact us at gras@dhigroup.com, if you are interested in knowing more.

EOatDHI part of the DHI GROUP

gras@dhigroup.com
+45 4516 9100

Agern Alle 5,
2970 Hørsholm,
Denmark

CVR: 36466871

October 25, 2018May 16, 2019

Forests of the World

Assisting indigenous people in Latin America with monitoring changes in forest areas based on open source software

Assisting indigenous people with forest monitoring

Latin America, Forests of the World

How we helped:

The amazon is described as the lungs of our earth. Forest monitoring plays an essential role in checking its health. We developed a low-cost monitoring system for efficiently monitoring forest areas in Latin America, based on open source software and free data sources.

Project highlights:

Capacity building within the use of satellite imagery for effective, systematic and routinely monitoring of deforestation within indigenous’ territories in Latin America

Providing a low cost monitoring system based on open source GIS software and freely available optical and radar satellite images

Provision of on-site tailormade technical workshops focusing on effective coupling local field surveys with satellite remote sensing

Coordinator & Technical Adviser,

Forest of the World

Jakob Rydding

Our cooperation with DHI GRAS on the development of low-cost monitoring systems, based on the application of open source GIS software and freely available optical and radar satellite images has exceeded our expectations.

DHI GRAS has with great skill and user-friendliness delivered a hands-on approach to using freely available data and technology to carry out participatory forest monitoring in large tropical forest areas. The combination of desk analyses and field verification creates a powerful and efficient tool, which has been an invaluable input to our own organisation as well as our partners in Latin America.

In more detail..

We successfully co-lead two technical workshops, hosted by the NGO Forests of the World (Verdens Skove), that introduced satellite-based monitoring of forest cover changes in indigenous territory in Bolivia and Panama.

The workshop participants were trained in the following topics:

Fundamental concepts and properties of Earth Observation satellites for forest cover monitoring
Working with satellite image, GIS and GPS data in QGIS
Accessing and preprocessing of optical and SAR satellite imagery
Mapping of changes related to deforestation based on earth observation
Collecting field observation and linking this to the satellite image analysis in QGIS.