EAST TIMOR AGRICULTURAL AND LAND USE GIS

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EAST TIMOR AGRICULTURAL ANDLAND USE GIS

• David Ives Advisor MAF East Timor
• Adalfredo Ferreira (Bio) Head of Unit ALGIS
  Manager

AGWEST International
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LOCATION
INDONESIA
Timor Sea
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EAST TIMOR AGRICULTURAL ANDLAND USE GIS

• Project funded under AusAID
• Implemented by
• AGWEST International
• in association with NGIS

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BACKGROUND

• In the 16th century Timor became a Portuguese
  colony and trading partner
• Portugals interest in Timor wanes in the 1950s
  and
• 1960s
• Emergence of political associations May 1974
• Decolonization discussions begin May 1975
• August 1975 Fretilin emerge from a period of
  internal
• conflict as the dominant political force and
  form a
• Government without waiting for full
  decolonization
• Indonesia formally invades Timor 7 Dec. 1975

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RECENT EVENTS

• After almost 25 years under Indonesian governance
  East Timor overwhelmingly votes for independence
  in August 1999 in an internationally supervised
  plebiscite.
• Indonesian forces and pro-Indonesian militia
  proxies go on a rampage of violence and
  destruction
• 250,000 flee to West Timor, many more move to the
  safety of hill villages

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INTERFET

• September 99 an interim peace keeping force
  under the UN Provides security
• May 2000 under a UN mandate a Transitional
  Administration is established including Timorese
  and UN advisors
• Interim government established after national
  elections in August 2001.

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Severity of Destruction(September 99)
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AUSTRALIAN ASSISTANCE 

• Under the CAPACITY BUILDING FOR EAST TIMOR
  PROGRAM Australia provided assistance to the
  Division of Agricultural Affairs (DAA) (now
  Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries)
• Assistance provided by way of the Agricultural
  Landuse Mapping and GIS Development and Training
  Project (ALGIS Project) and implemented by AGWEST
  International between January and November 2001.
• The project has recently been extended for a 2nd
  phase from January to December 2002.

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THE ALGIS PROJECT

• The Project aims to assist with the
  rehabilitation of agricultural services through
  the development of agricultural databases and
  digital mapping capability but with the
  following initial objectives
• Collection of information and development of
  database system for use by trained land use
  planning staff.
• Retrieval of landuse information and the
  establishment of a GIS for use by trained land
  use planning staff.
• Establishment of a secure, climate-controlled
  storage area for historical hard copies of data,
  map charts and similar records and computer
  equipment.

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PROJECT ACTIONS

• Review availability of land and related
  information and acquire
• Establish a GIS laboratory
• Mobilize remaining consultants
• Develop an initial directory of databases
• Recruit and train counterparts
• Expand databases and data presentation capability

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ACQUISITION OF HISTORICAL DATA

• Data available in East Timor
• East Timor land resources data available in
  Australia, Indonesia and Portugal 
• Review and evaluate

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MOBILIZATION OF CONSULTANT TEAM

• Agricultural Data Manager / Team Leader
• Computer Data Management Specialist
• Agricultural GIS Specialist
• Land Resources GIS Technician
• Provided 22 person months of services between
  February and November 2001

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ESTABLISH THE GIS FACILITY

• LAN based on Windows 2000 with 3 Work-stations
  and 2 spare terminals and full range of
  peripherals and UPS
• GIS software based on ArcView? 3.2a, and ER
  Mapper
• Hardware and software installed by NGIS
• Air-conditioned room which also serves as map
  storage

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DEVELOP INITIAL DIRECTORY OF DATABASES AND
PRODUCTS

• Datasets recovered from external sources provided
  the initial databases on which the subsequent
  system was established
• Constant review of suitability and applicability
  of data and substitution with updated information

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RECRUIT AND TRAIN COUNTERPARTS

• Counterparts recruited to manage and operate the
  ALGIS Unit received both formal and on-the-job
  training. Budget limitations meant staff were
  only became available as funds were released by
  Government
• 1. GIS Unit Manager from March 2001
• 2. Remote sensing specialist from August 2001
• 3. Database management specialist October 2001

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FORMAL TRAINING

• March 2 weeks Databases MS Access local
• Apr-May 4 weeks Introduction to GIS Perth
• May-Jun 6 weeks Agricultural databases local
• May-Jun 2 weeks Forest inventory/database local
• June 1 week Introduction to forest
  soils local
• June 1 week Digitizing local
• August 1 week Digitizing local
• Sep-Oct 3 weeks Introduction to ArcView local
• October 1 week Advanced GIS/Spatial Anal. local
• Novemb 1 week LAN and server ops. local
• Novemb 1 week Landuse mapping local
• Novemb 0.5 week Management Info.Systems local

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EXPAND DATABASES AND PRESENTATION OF DATA

• Incorporate locally generated data
• social survey covering 500 village areas
  (suco)
• agricultural survey of 100 villages and 1800
• households
• reconnaissance land-use survey of East Timor
• Production of new base maps corrected to accepted
• coordinates
• Generation of new maps from old surveys and
  thematic
• maps from newly acquired data
• review of Portuguese soil data
• interpretation of village surveys data for
  multi-users
• 4. Expansion of library of Remotely Sensed data

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CONTENTS OF THE EAST TIMORAGRICULTURAL LAND
INFORMATION SYSTEM

• The following slides provide examples of the
  various aspects of the ALGIS Information System
• Physical Data
• Administration
• Land Resources
• Socio-economic data

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PHYSICAL DATA

• The following section contains examples of the
  baseline data in the ALGIS. Unfortunately the
  topographic information is derived from scanned
  and rectified topographic maps.
• This situation will be remedied with receipt of
  new mapping recently completed on behalf of the
  Australian Military command

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ADMINISTRATION

• The district and sub-district boundaries have
  been extrapolated from earlier Indonesian maps.
• The village/suco boundaries which, in general,
  follow those originally shown on the 1989-1992
  Indonesian maps are still to be agreed by the
  East Timor people

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LAND RESOURCES

• This includes Land Use data captured from
  September 2000 Landsat TM and extensive ground
  traverses. These surveys were undertaken by ALGIS
  staff.
• Soil data is derived from earlier Portuguese soil
  surveys from mid-late 1960s. A comprehensive
  soil/land suitability database is being compiled
  by ALGIS from these early records

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LAND COVER/USE LEGEND
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA

• Socio-economic data is derived primarily from the
  2000/2001 suco(village) survey of all villages.
• The suco as a spatial unit varies in size from
  tens of hectares to more than 10,000ha.
• Analysis of the recently completed household
  survey will provide a strong insight into
  agricultural production and food security.

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THE FUTURE

• For the Australian government to be satisfied
  that the investment in the ALGIS project has been
  worthwhile the ALGIS unit must
• provide a service needed by Agriculture
  and the new
• government of East Timor and
• the unit must be able to function in a
  sustainable way
• AusAID has confidence in the sustainability of
  ALGIS and continues to provide support for the
  further consolidation of gains already made in
  the development of an expanded capacity in land
  use evaluation and planning.

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THE FUTURE IS SECURE

• The ALGIS continues to be the principal
  government agency involved in production of
  thematic and general maps in East Timor
• ALGIS is supporting many foreign assisted
  projects in the agricultural and natural
  resources sectors
• ALGIS staff are improving their knowledge and
  skills through attendance at conferences such as
  this and at overseas training and visits by GIS
  experts to East Timor