Direct Broadcast applications for decision support in Mxico

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Direct Broadcast applications for decision
support in México

CONABIO - National Commission for the Knowledge
and Use of biodiversity Rainer Ressl, Division
for Geomatics
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Why the heck does Mexico need Direct Broadcast?
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Who are he main users who need DB data in Mexico?

National Center for Desaster Prevention
(CENAPRED) Main application Civil protection
(Fire, flooding, hurrican) National Commission
for Forestry (CONAFOR) Main application
Fire National Meteorological Service (SMN) Main
application Civil protection (Oil spills,
hurricans, flooding) Secretary of Marine Defense
Main application ship tracking Oil company -
PEMEX Main application Oil spills, flooding,
hurrican
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Major Direct Broadcast stations in México
X/L Band, CONABIO Mexico - City
L/S/X Band, Ecosur Chetumal
X Band, Secr. de Marina Mexico-City
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MODIS DB station at CONABIO
Continuous monitoring through complementary suite
of satellites
MODIS DB station (X band antenna) 8 passes /day
receiving MODIS Aqua / Terra
AVHRR Mainly NOAA 15, 17 and 18
MODIS DB station Mexico City
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Multi-mission satellite receiving station Chetumal
Direct broadcast antena in Chetumal / México
(DLR / Méxican consortium)
Chetumal antenna LSX-band, 8.0m
received
Assured and potential data reception at the
Chetumal Station
planned
To be confirmed
Under negotiation
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Satellite receiving station Chetumal
Infrastructure
Data reception circle of Chetumal
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International DB data networking

• Data exchange with other direct Broadcast
  stations for continuous monitoring

• Data redundancy in case of data losses

• Larger coverage for monitoring

Sentinel Latin America?
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Selected DB applications in Mexico

• Wildfires
• Flooding
• Land cover change

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Operational wildfire detection since 1999
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Rapid fire detection program
More than 80,000 hectares are affected by fires
in Mexico every year. Fires have a huge impact on
global and local environmental processes Identific
ation and mapping of burned areas is critical for
fire management
Photography by Fulvio Eccardi
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Rapid fire detection program
Direct broadcast history of fire related
activities at CONABIO
Automatization of the program
Hot spot detection with AVHRR and MODIS
Publication for entire Central America
User defined products reports, new portal
DMSP
1998
1999
2000
2004
2001
2003
2002
2005
2008
Decrease in response time
Publication for Guatemala
Publication of fire propagation
Start hot spot detection with AVHRR and same day
publication
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Rapid fire detection program
Near-realtime fire detection program for México
and Central America
Guatemala
Honduras

• Time from reception to information release
• Before 1.5 hours
• March 2008 lt 20 min
• Suite of productsLow gtgt High tech

Nicaragua
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Rapid fire detection program
Quicklook
Hot Spot- Map
DEM and Vegetation
Value added products
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Rapid fire detection program
Statistics of the operational fire detection
program at CONABIO

• Large number of hits on fire page every day/month
• Average response time from satellite overpass to
  end user less than 30 min.
• 4606 hot spots (night) and 43327 hot spots
  (day) detected,
• classified and reported in the year of 2006

• 330 user defined e-mails with fire related
  products sent out daily to
• méxican and central american end users
  (currently 48 institutions)

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Rapid fire detection program Future components
Early Alert, Monitoring and Impact Assessment
System for Forest Fires in Mexico and Central
America
Detection Monitoring
Rapid Response
FIRE Information Management System
clients
Databases
Processing
Biodiversity
Web-based Services/products
Rapid response products
Burnt area
Impact Assessment
Early Alert
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Fire propagation model with DB data CI / Conabio
Land Surface Temperature (MODIS)
Rainfall - TRMM
0 Duration (h)
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0 deg C
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Model prediction Litter Moisture
Relative Humidity (MODIS)
(Steininger et al., 2005)
0 RH
40
0 Moisture
40
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Fire propagation model with DB data CI / Conabio
Model prediction Litter Moisture 100 hour fuel
class 7 cm diam.
Model prediction Litter Moisture 10 hour fuel
class 2.5 cm diam.
(Steininger et al., 2005)
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Fire combat decision support for CONAFOR
Daily fire combatting reports of the National
Commission for Forestry (CONAFOR)
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NALCMS- Trinational initiative for land cover
monitoring (Canada / US / México)
CCRS- Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ESTATISTICA GEOGRAFÍA E
INFORMÁTICA
COMISIÓN NACIONAL FORESTAL
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)
Land cover change monitoring and
modeling/prediction
Objectives Remote Sensing and GIS based
products for automated land cover change
monitoring (and prediction for México)

• Anticipated results
• 250m annual land cover classification
• 250m annual land cover change map
• 250m fractional land cover (change) map

Aditional anticipated products for Mexico

• Annual predicted land cover change maps
• Habitat and landscape impact maps

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Direct Broadcast for automated land use change
monitoring and prediction
Land cover change monitoring
Land cover change modeling
daily MODIS data B1-B7
Existing classifications
Best data effort (cloud, QA, angle, etc.)
Trend surfaces Transition models
250/500m MODIS composites (leaf on/off/spring)
Change modeling / prediction
Decision tree clasification SEE5
Change prediction maps
Training Validation
Anual 250/500m LCC product
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NALCMS- Trinational initiative for land cover
monitoring (Canada / US / México)
CCRS- Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ESTATISTICA GEOGRAFÍA E
INFORMÁTICA
COMISIÓN NACIONAL FORESTAL
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)

• Monthly MODIS ToA and in future surface
  reflectance MOD09 products (Tile based ? swath
  based)
• Downscaling (250m) or 500m products
• Cloud screening, Interpolation
• Adjustment of national class. schemes to FAO
  classification scheme
• Automated Training sampling
• Application of SEE5 program (Training of
  algorithm, selection of variables, Class.)
• Classification of entire continent, mapping zone
  approach for each country
• Validation of pilot product (250 m annual land
  cover classification)

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NALCMS- Trinational initiative for land cover
monitoring (Canada / US / México)
Automated monitoring approach
Hirarchical Tree classification (SEE5)
Canada/EU/México
MODIS Chan. 1-7
Clean pixels
Interpo- lation
Decision Tree class.
Class description
Change Detection products
IRS-P6 AWIFS
Add. data
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Downscaling Example of downscaled MODIS data
over Canada 2000/09/02

• Middle False color composite image Red-ch.4
  (0.55 µm), Green- ch. 6 (1.6  µ m) Blue - ch.7
  (2.1  µ m)
• Left downscaled data at 250 m spatial
  resolution. Central shows original data at 500 m.
• RightLANDSAT image upscaled to 250 m from 30 m
  spatial resolution.

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Scatter plot comparison between LANDSAT
aggregated to 250 m and MODIS 250 m.
Source CCRS
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NALCMS- North American Land Cover Change
Monitoring System
CCRS monthly MODIS composite (07/2006)
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Land cover change using surface reflectance MOD09
for DB
CCRS monthly MODIS composite
MOD09
ToA
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MODIS data preprocessing 10 day composite (500m
721 RGB)?
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Direct Broadcast applications for civil
protection Flooding
November 2007 - Mexico battles worst flooding in
50 Years Approx. 900,000 people affected
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Direct Broadcast applications for civil
protection Rio Panuco
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Direct Broadcast applications for civil
protection Tabasco
Source
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Direct Broadcast applications for civil
protection Oil spills
TerraSAR-X Stripmap mode, dual polarisation
16.11.2007, 352 UTC. , ( HH / VV / HH VV
) Black Sea , Street of Kerch
Kerch
Oil spills detected by RadarSat and ERS-2
Kerch
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IPOPP and Simulcast at CONABIO
IPOPP Processing at CONABIO Operating system
Kubuntu 7.1 64-bit
NOAA IPO - Simulcast CONABIO station
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How can the DR community contribute to NASA DRL
and NOAA IPO?
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