Real-Time Remote Sensing for Early Warning

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• Real-Time Remote Sensing for Early Warning
  Mitigation of Disasters Epidemics
  The Kamal Ewida Earth Observatory (KEEO)
• SfP 983168
• PPD Prof. Dr. Magdy Abdel Wahab Cairo
  University, Egypt
• NPD Gilbert L. Rochon, Ph. D.,MPH Purdue
  University, USA

Presentation before the NATO SfP Expert
Panel on Environmental Security- NATO HQ
Brussels, Belgium June 2, 2008
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Dr. Mohammed Kamal Tolba Ewida

• Dean, Faculty of Engineering- Zagazig University,
  Sharkia, Egypt
• Delegate from Egypt to the NATO CCMS Pilot Study
  on Clean Products Processes
• Project Coordinator, 1st Phase- eLearning System
  for Water Environmental Studies (eSWES)

Departed Nov. 4, 2006
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NATO Science for Peace Project

• REAL-TIME REMOTE SENSING FOR EARLY WARNING
  MITIGATION OF DISASTERS EPIDEMICS
• Geostationary Groundstation at Al Azhar
  University European Space Agencys Meteosat
• Tracking Groundstation at Cairo University for
  NOAA AVHRR, NASA Terra MODIS Aqua MODIS,
  Chinese Space Agencys FENG YUN, INPE-Brazils
  CBERS Egypt-NARSS EgyptSat I

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NATO SfP KEEO Project Team

• Right to Left
• M.Shokr (Environment Canada)
• Magdy Wahab (PPD-Cairo U.)
• M. Atef (Aero/Astro-Cairo U.)
• Gülay Altay (KOERI)
• G.Rochon (NPD-Purdue U.)
• Okan Ersoy (Purdue U.)
• Gamal El Afandi(COO-Al Azhar U.)

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Mitigation Problems to be Addressed

• Natural Disasters
• Earthquakes
• Storms Flooding
• Wild Fires
• Drought Desertification
• Epidemics Epizootics
• Crop Failure, Famine Food Insecurity
• Anthropogenic Disasters
• Unintentional
• Oil Chemical Spills
• Air Pollution Water Pollution
• Deliberate
• Terrorist Incidents

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Disaster Management StagesRemote Sensing
Contributes at each Stage

• Vulnerability Assessment Remediation
• Disaster Preparedness, Drills Simulations
• Early Warning
• Emergency Response, Search Rescue
• Humanitarian Relief
• Recovery
• Post-Disaster Reconstruction

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Current Status of Technology

• EgyptSat I
• Existing Groundstations
• Need for Academic Community Access
• Fiber Optic Backbone Among Egyptian Universities
• Archival Real-Time Data
• Collaborative Ties with other Data Providers,
  Spatial Data Scientists End-Users within
  Governmental Ministries, Multi-Lateral Agencies
  Universities

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Goals of the Project

• To establish two groundstations for real-time
  satellite remote sensing in Cairo, Egypt, a
  geostationary groundstation for ESA Meteosat at
  Al Azhar University and a tracking groundstation
  at Cairo University, initially for NOAA AVHRR,
  NASA MODIS Terra Aqua and EgyptSat I.
• To provide training for faculty, students and
  Ministry staff scientific curricular
  enhancement for utilization of this technology
  for disaster mitigation, food security, disease
  vector habitat monitoring and environmental
  sustainability.
• To collaborate with end-users in research and in
  supporting operational disaster management data
  product dissemination.

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Novel Characteristics

• Provides real-time data from satellite remote
  sensing to Egypts academic community for the
  first time.
• Establishes critical redundancy during
  over-flight conflicts for data acquisition with
  Egypts National Authority for Remote Sensing
  Space Sciences
• Enables Research on Vulnerability Assessment
  Best Management Practices for Disaster
  Mitigation, Early Warning, Humanitarian Response
  Recovery within the Egyptian Regional
  Contexts
• Provides training and career opportunities for
  faculty students addressing applications of
  space-based technologies for sustainable
  development, food security public safety at two
  Egyptian Universities, with a combined total
  enrollment of 700,000 students.

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Scientific Activities

• Collaborative research between the NATO SfP
  Partnering Universities and the WHO Regional
  Office, based in Cairo, to integrate real-time
  remote sensing meteorological data with medical
  ecology data and epidemiological data, so as to
  identify, map and monitor infectious disease
  vector habitat, for timely intervention.
• Collaborative interdisciplinary research on the
  contributing causes , potential mitigating
  factors best management practices associated
  with an array of biogenic anthropogenic
  disasters on the optimal use of remote sensing
  tools.

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Deliverables/Milestones

• Bid Specifications/Solicitation Installation of
  Groundstations in first quarter of 2009.
• Implementation of Data Dissemination
  Collaborative Research with Ministries,
  Multi-Lateral Agencies and Academic Departments.
• Relevant Curricular Enhancement Training for
  Faculty, Students End-Users
• Development of a Hub for Broader Access to
  Near-Real-Time Data Product Distribution
• Video Documentary on the NATO SfP KEEO
  Collaboration among institutions in Egypt,
  Turkey the USA.

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Quantified Criteria for Success

• Successful Vendor Selection and Installation of
  2 Groundstations during First Quarter, 2009.
• Real-Time Acquisition of ESA Meteosat Data 24
  hrs./day 7 days/week
• Real-Time Acquisition of data from at least 3
  polar orbiting satellites (e.g NASA MODIS Terra
  Aqua, NOAA AVHRR, CBERS, Feng Yun EgyptSat I)
  Near-Real-Time Data Transfer
• Operational Data Utilization by 2 Ministries and
  1 UN Agency for Disaster Mitigation.

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Quantified Criteria for Success Continued

• Training Established for 5 end-users, 10 faculty
  and 40 students in application of remote sensing
  applications for disaster mitigation
• 10-15 minute video documentary completed on the
  collaboration among NATO sponsored universities
  in Egypt, Turkey and the USA with their regional
  end-users of remotely sensed data for disaster
  early warning mitigation.
• A Disaster-Mitigation Hub established in FY 2
• Publication of 2 peer reviewed journal articles
  and presentation at 2 major conferences/year

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Institutes Involved Their Expertise

• Cairo University Giza, Egypt
• Meteorology, Storms, Flooding
• Aerospace Engineering, Technology Applications
• Al Azhar University Nasr City, Egypt
• Meteorology, Drought, Desertification
• Environmental Hazard Remediation
• Bogaziçi University Istanbul, Turkey
• Kandilli Observatory Earthquake Research
  Institute
• Disaster Monitoring, Mitigation In Situ Sensing
• Purdue University W. Lafayette, Indiana, USA
• Purdue Terrestrial Observatory Public Health
  Applications
• Remote Sensing High Performance Computing
• Sustainable Development Environmental
  Sustainability

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Cairo University

• Centennial Anniversary on Dec. 21, 2008
• Student Enrollment 200,000
• Partner Country Project Director-PPD
• Prof. Dr. M. Magdy Abdel Wahab, Chair, Dept.
  of Meteorology Astronomy, Faculty of Science

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• Al Azhar University was founded 988 A.D.- 1,020
  years old in 2008 2nd oldest continuous
  university after the University of Al Karaouine
  in Fes, Morocco, 859 A.D..
• Multi-Campus Student Enrollment 500,000
• Project Co-Director Dr. Gamal El Afandi, Dept.
  of Meteorology Astronomy, Faculty of Science

• Al Azhar University

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Bogaziçi University- Kandilli Observatory
Earthquake Research Institute (KOERI)

• Founded in 1868 in Istanbul, Turkey, during the
  reign of Abdülâziz, the 32nd Sultan of the
  Ottoman Empire
• Project Co-Director, Prof. Dr. Gülay Altay,
  Director, KOERI

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Purdue University-W. Lafayette, Indiana USA
Founded 1869 69,000 students Multi-Campus

• Purdue Terrestrial Observatory

• NATO Country Project Director (NPD)
  Dr. Gilbert Rochon
• Co-Director Dr. Okan Ersoy

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Project Management
KEEO ADVISORY BOARD
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Collaborators/End-Users

• Dr. Mohamed A. Fawzi, Director, Crisis Disaster
  Management Sector, Office of the Prime Minister
• Prof. Dr. Ayman El-Dessouki, Chairman
• National Authority for Remote Sensing Space
  Sciences (NARSS) Eng. Belal M. Elleithy, Ground
  Receiving Manager, NARSS
• Prof. Dr. Ayman Abu Hadid, President,
  Agricultural Research Center

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Collaborators/End Users

• Altaf S. Musani, MPH,Regional Advisor, Emergency
  Preparedness Humanitarian Action, WHO
• Babiker Abdalla Ibrahim, Ph.D., Regional Project
  Coordinator (Egypt, Sudan Ethiopia) Flood
  Preparedness Early Warning-Eastern Nile
  Technical Office (ENTRO)
• Prof. Dr. Mostafa M. Emara, Director, Science
  Center for Detection Remediation of
  Environmental Hazards (SCDREH) Al Azhar
  University
• Prof. Dr. Mortada Mourad El-Aref, Director, Basel
  Convention Regional Training Center Director,
  Cairo Univ. Center for Environmental Hazard
  Mitigation

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End-Users Their Contributions

• NARSS- Egypts Space Agency is contributing the
  expertise of its Aswan Ground Station Manager,
  access to data from EgyptSat I, joint sharing of
  data archives critical redundancy in data
  collection for orbital conflicts disaster
  mitigation.
• Ministry of Agricultures Agricultural Research
  Center is offering access to their laboratories
  for ground reference information (e.g. analysis
  of soil, vegetation, water insect vector
  samples).

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End-Users/Collaborators

• Office of the Prime Minister- is committed to
  fully integrating data from the NATO SfP KEEO
  into their disaster planning, simulation,
  mitigation response activities to provide
  fellowships for junior faculty and internships
  for students to obtain operational experience
  and service learning.
• The WHO Regional Office has welcomed the KEEO
  team to collaborate in research to develop a
  spatial database incorporating real-time data on
  disease vector habitat.
• ENTRO will partner with KEEO on its World-Bank
  supported Nile Flooding project, sharing data
  technical personnel.

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Distribution of NATO SfP Funding
EGYPT 255K Euros TURKEY 22.5K Euros USA
22.5K Euros TOTAL 300K Euros
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How Possible NATO Funding will change the
previous research at the partnering Universities
in Egypt

• Cairo University
• Greatly encourage multi-disciplinary research a
  focus on remote sensing applications for disaster
  preparedness environmental hazards, jointly
  with the Basel Convention.

• Al Azhar University
• Significantly impact closer ties among faculties
  departments as well as stronger interactions
  with UN agencies/governmental ministries for
  applied research collaborations simulation
  exercises.

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PROJECT STRENGTHS OPENESS ISSUES

• The project benefits from a coalition of
  exceptionally strong research universities in
  Egypt, Turkey the USA
• The project has established high level commitment
  from key government ministries in Egypt, regional
  offices of the UN and established operatives in
  both the remote sensing disaster mitigation
  communities.
• The project is offering its raw data freely to
  other universities will develop a hub for wide
  dissemination of standard data products

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PROJECTS CONTRIBUTION TO STABILITY, SECURITY
PEACE

• NATO SfP support of this KEEO project will
  directly enable
• Real-time remote sensing applications for a wide
  array of time-critical events, including natural
  and man-made disasters, public health
  emergencies, and food security issues
• Closer on-going collaboration between the
  academic community, governmental ministries and
  multi-lateral agencies charged with public
  safety, peaceful resolution of conflict, regional
  environmental sustainability and sustainable
  development.

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Equal Opportunity Technology Applications in
Africa, Asia Latin America

• Famine Early Warning (FEWS) Project Food
  Security
• Africa Real-Time Environmental Monitoring
  Information System (ARTEMIS)
• African Association for Remote Sensing of
  Environment (AARSE)
• Precision Agriculture Water Resources
  Conservation
• Coastal Zone Morphology
• Regional Impact of Climate Change
• Forest Resource Assessment
• Biodiversity Natural Resource Management
• Sustainable Industrial Development Infectious
  Disease Vector Habitat Identification

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MODIS Image April 6, 2000 Korea 36 Bands
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-Radiometer
(MODIS)
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NOAA AVHRR- UN FAO- ARTEMISFEWS Desert
Locust-Schistocerca gregaria

• DOC NOAA- US Dept of Commerce, National Oceanic
  Atmospheric Administration
• AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
• HRPT High Resolution Picture Transmission
• GAC- Global Area Coverage (4 km)
• LAC- Local Area Coverage (1.1 km)
• UN FAO ARTEMIS

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Egypt from Space
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Need for Moderate Resolution High Resolution
Data