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Joy Papao, Risk Information Systems Officer

Applied Geoscience and Technology Division ‐ SOPAC

Secretariat of the Pacific Community ‐ SPC

22 Pacific Island States Head office in Noumea, New Caledonia 2 Regional offices (Pohnpei and Honiara) 600 staff 9 Technical divisions

‐ Economic Development Division‐ Education, Training and Human Development Division‐ Fisheries, Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems (FAME) Division‐ Land Resources Division‐ Public Health Division‐ Statistics for Development Division‐ Strategic Engagement, Policy and Planning Facility (SEPPF)‐ Operations and Management Division

‐ Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC)


Natural Resource Economics

Applied Geoscience & Technology Division

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Directorate

Publications /Library

Data Management

Disaster Reduction Programme

Ocean & Islands Programme

Water & Sanitation Programme

GIS & Remote Sensing

1Ocean and Islands Programme

Technical Workshop

Corporate Services

Role of GIS Section

Image data management (catalogues, database maintenance)

Providing technical advice on imagery (type, resolution, specification)

Image selection & acquisition (archive, new collect)

Image data pre‐processing (rectification, atmospheric correction)

Analysis (Semi automatic analysis, network analysis, spatial analysis)

Conduct technical training ( MapInfo, Map Basic, Erdas, ArcGIS, QGIS, GPS)


Disaster Reduction Programme

provides technical and policy advice and support to strengthen disaster risk management practices in Pacific Island Countries and Territories

DRM Policy & Planning Risk Reduction Community based DRM Pacific DRM Training Pacific Disaster Net Disaster Management Disaster Risk Reduction in Eight Pacific ACP States (B‐Envelope) Supporting Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Pacific Overseas Countries and Territories

(OCTs)

Use GIS & RS in our various work programmes for different applications


WINDS ANTENNAE

Installed at the Government of Fiji ITC complex Maintained by ITC staff Standard procedure for requesting and accessing imagery via Sentinel Asia

established1. request JAXA by email for proposal to use the WINDS antenna for

receiving commercial data when disaster occur 2. request the emergency observation request to Sentinel Asia 3. JAXA also receives emergency observation requests sent to the

International Disaster Charter via UNOOSA/UNOSAT 4. ITC Fiji is contacted by JAXA once image is uploaded5. ITC Fiji contacts NDMO and SOPAC once data is prepared6. Imagery downloaded by SOPAC and NDMO and distributes as required

Pre and post disaster image products were provided in February 2012


PROCESSDisasterOccurs

REQUESTING ORGANISATIONS

WINDS ANTENNAEITC Services

DISASTER RESPONSE AGENCIES & PARTNERS

REQUEST

DATA RECEIVED

ANALYSED DATA

REQUEST

DATA RECEIVED ANALYSED DATA

EXPERIENCES/USES

TC Freda assessment in the Solomon Islands (Dec 2012) NEOC (initial assessment, logistics, planning, relief)

TC Evans assessment in Samoa (Dec 2012)

Water asset & resource mapping in Pitcairn (Jun 2012) Water scarcity (how best to improve water accessibility)

Post flood assessments in Fiji (Jan/March 2012) Flood inundation, extents, maximum flood heights

Post flood assessment in Solomon Islands (2009) River cross sections, investigating cause of river diversions

Tsunami Evacuation mapping in Suva


WEB PORTALS

PCRAFI – http://pcrafi.sopac.org

SOPAC Geonode ‐ http://geonode.sopac.org

SOPAC Geonetwork ‐ http://geonetwork.sopac.org

Pacific Disaster Net ‐ http://www.pacificdisaster.net

DesInventar

Compendium Project http://sopaccompendium.spc.int/compendium/main.jsf


PCRAFI

Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment & Financing Initiative

A joint initiative of SOPAC/SPC, World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank with the financial support of the Government of Japan and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), and technical support from AIR Worldwide, New Zealand GNS Science, Geoscience Australia, Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), OpenGeo and GFDRR Labs

Interactive platform of detailed probabilistic hazard models for all 15 countries, such as Tropical Cyclones with Winds, Storm Surge, Rain & Earthquake with Ground‐shaking and Tsunami

3.5m attributed buildings in the Pacific

Data accessibility available through Web services (WMS, WFS)

http://pcrafi.sopac.org/


PACIFIC RISK INFORMATION

SYSTEM

Pacific Disaster Net ‐ PDN

Largest and most comprehensive information resource for Disaster Risk Management for the Pacific Island Countries

Alerts, Events, Reports, Publications, Contacts, Training Information, Media

10,000 documents since 2008

http://www.pacificdisaster.net


GEONETWORK

• A storage and retrieval online catalogue, developed for easy and secure access to Marine and oceanographic Information collected from SPC‐SOPAC divisions ocean surveys and from external organizations within the Pacific

‐Bathymetry Datasets, Reports & Charts‐Historical Aerial Photographs‐Deep Sea minerals Datasets‐South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring Project Information‐Pacific Maritime Boundary Information‐Deep sea Mineral resources Geophysical data , Atlases and reports‐Coastal Geological Maps‐Satellite Images‐SOPAC historical scanned maps and Charts

http://geonetwork.sopac.org


GEONETWORK


CHALLENGES ‐ Sustainability Data sharing – between agencies, with countries and partners. SOPAC is only

the custodian of the data Limited internet connectivity or high maintenance costs Capacity development within countries to sustain and apply products (‘not

another data collection exercise’)Inhouse capacity to maintain PacRIS

Funding – dependent on project funding to deliver activities. Sustainability between project lifecycle

Limited resources –personnel within NDMO thus support from Lands/Mapping section is critical

Bridge the gap from Science to Policy – products need to assist development planners and DRM/CCA policy makers

Development of tools and products to meet country needs Liaise & collaborate with SOPAC‐SPC for available data and training needs/gaps for

the member countries

Thank you..

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