PPMM #22: Highwater Risk Analysis & [Forest Cover] Change Detection

PPMM #22: Highwater Risk Analysis & [Forest Cover] Change Detection

Please consider yourself invited!

In honor of the recent Water Festival, let’s re-celebrate it in our own geeky way – via mapping. WaterSHED Cambodia and 1001 Fountaines took a raincheck but expressed an interest in giving a presentation at one of the future meetups.

For the PPMM #22, we are delighted to have Bernd and Seila as presenters. Bernd is an active contributor in Phnom Penh Mapping Meetup community. He will share some “key ingredients” in analyzing highwater risk using remote sensing, drawing experience from Germany. He will also introduce the Land Matrix, a global land monitoring tool whose database draws on ODC’s Economic Land Concession database.

In lights of the recent global forest cover change studies, by the University of Maryland and by Google, which made major headwind globally and in Cambodia, we find it appropriate to have Seila, ODC Mapping Coordinator, give a short presentation on change detection. Seila will demonstrate change detection using a small sample of image classification, spanning 2000, 2004, and 2009 from ODC’s forest cover change project*, which is a work-in-progress. If requested, Seila could show a sample of change detection around Tonle Sap area.

*ODC wishes to launch its animated forest coverage series, an animation showing how Cambodia’s forests have disappeared over the last 40 years, from 1973 to 2013 at a conference in early December. Stay tuned.

About the Speakers: Bernd Eversmann is an Advisor on Geographic Information Systems And Land Management at GIZ, and a GIZ-CIM Integrated Expert at the Royal University of Agriculture, Cambodia. Seila Nhiep is a Mapping Coordinator at Open Development Cambodia.

Best, PPMM Team

PS: If you wish to help coordinate the PPMM, please contact ODC Research & Volunteer Coordinator Penhleak Chan..