Final Programme and Presentations

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PROGRAMME AND PRESENTATIONS

Wednesday July 13		Session 1: Introduction to Remote Sensing for Water Resources Management
The objective of this session is to provide an overview of fundamentals of remote sensing, to identify the different water cycle components, with a focus on fresh water quantities and water-related disaster risk management
			Responsible
8:30 – 9:00	Transport from the hotel to the training venue		CIH
9:00 – 9:30	Welcome words: Koen Verbist, UNESCO-IHP Ana Prados, NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) Rafael González, Hydroinformatics Center Cláudio Osako, Itaipu Technological Park Herlon Goelzer de Almeida, Itaipu Binacional Short introduction of the participants		Organization Participants
9:30 – 10:30	Overview of ARSET and Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing		NASA-ARSET
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30	NASA Satellites and Earth System Models for Water Resources Management		NASA-ARSET
11:30 – 13:00	i) NASA Web-based Tools for Water Resources Data Access ii) Hands-on Activity to Access HDF and NetCDF File Using Selected Web-tools		NASA-ARSET
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Hands-on Activity: Software Installation Check (QGIS and Panoply) and HDF/NetCDF Data Visualization		NASA-ARSET
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00	EUMETSAT dissemination mechanism for the near real-time delivery of satellite data and products		LAPISMET
17:00 – 18:00	Remote sensing applications for dryland management in Brazil		LAPISMET
20:00	Icebreaker Reception		Organization

Thursday July 14	Session 2: Precipitation Remote Sensing Estimates
This session gives an overview of remote sensing products available for rainfall estimates (TRMM, GPM, PERSIANN, among others) and provides concrete examples of their use for specific applications in extreme rainfall detection, flood and drought monitoring among others. The session will also provide instruction for access and analysis of the precipitation data.
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09:00 – 10:30	Overview and Access to GPCP, TRMM and GPM Precipitation Data Products	NASA-ARSET
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00	Hands-on Exercises to download TRMM and GPM Gridded Datasets	NASA-ARSET
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Hands-on Exercises to download TRMM and GPM Orbital Datasets	NASA-ARSET
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00	Introduction to the Latin American and Caribbean Flood and Drought Monitor Hands-on validation data for GPM using rain gauge data		University Princeton

Friday July 15		Session 3: Using satellites for Improved Flood Monitoring and Prediction
Remote sensing data sets are essential for monitoring and predicting flood hazards at different timescales and spatial resolutions. This session focusses on practical applications of remote sensing datasets as well as more integrated platforms, such as hydrologic and routing models that utilize remote sensing data for flood monitoring and inundation mapping for early warning to post-flood relief planning.
			Responsible
09:00 – 10:30	NASA Flood Monitoring and Mapping Tools		NASA-ARSET
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00	Hands-on Exercise for Flood Monitoring and Mapping		NASA-ARSET
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Hands-on application on the Latin American Flood and Drought Monitor Tutorial of the Latin American Flood and Drought Monitor		University Princeton
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00	Introduction to Radar Hands-on application using Sentinel RADAR Data		NASA-ARSET

Saturday July 16	Session 4: Remote sensing for Evapotranspiration
This session focusses on the use of remote sensing for the estimate of evapotranspiration. Both direct satellite-derived estimation methods (MODIS, LANDSAT) and indirect methods through modeling (GLDAS, TOPS-SIMS) will be explored.
		Responsible
09:00 – 10:30	Remote sensing of evapotranspiration (Overview)	NASA ARSET
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00	Deriving crop water requirements from remote sensing products	University Princeton

Saturday July 16	Session 5: Remote sensing for groundwater management
Remote sensing is progressively being used for the determination of groundwater conditions. Although the spatial resolution of these products are still a challenge for small-scale applications, through a set of case studies the use of GRACE and other products is discussed in specific applications.
		Responsible
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Overview of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Data and Applications	NASA-ARSET
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00	Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Data Access and Application		NASA-ARSET

Sunday July 17	Free Day and Optional Excursion
(Optional) Visit to the Foz de Iguazú National Park

Monday July 18	Session 6: Visit of the Itaipu Reservoir and Hydroelectric Plant
		Responsible
08:00	Departure from the hotel
08:00 – 12:00	Visit of the Itaipu reservoir complex	CIH

Monday July 18	Session 7: Remote sensing for snow and ice monitoring
The session is dealing with aspects related to snow and ice cover (MODIS, MODSCAG), with a focus on the Andean Region, and how the information can be used in watershed modeling for streamflow forecasting and decision making. In addition, snowmelt and snow water equivalent estimates based on Land Data Assimilation model will be introduced.
		Responsible
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	MODIS and MODSCAG for snow monitoring	NASA-ARSET
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00	Hands-on exercises on snow monitoring for streamflow prediction: 1) Tutorial Solver 2) Excel exercise – Microsoft Excel 3) Tutorial Modelo Pronóstico 4) Entradas pronóstico – Microsoft Excel 5) Publicación Cientíica	CEAZA/UNESCO

Tuesday July 19	Session 8: Remote sensing for drought monitoring
During this session different tools will be demonstrated to use remote sensing datasets for (agricultural) drought monitoring, and specifically to evaluate current tools for vegetation monitoring and to determine watershed boundaries from high resolution radar images.
		Responsible
09:00 – 10:30	Introduction vegetation indices and added value products	VITO
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00	Monitoring Agricultural Drought with Remote Sensing Data	VITO
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Introduction and installation of SPIRITS SPIRITS Tutorial	VITO
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00	Hands-on application using SPIRITS for vegetation anomaly analysis	NASA-ARSET

Wednesday July 20	Session 9: Remote sensing of soil moisture monitoring
This session will include an overview of the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite mission and its soil moisture products, providing examples of their use in different applications such as flood and drought forecasting amongst others.
		Responsible
09:00 – 10:30	Overview of the SMAP soil moisture products – Part1 Overview of the SMAP soil moisture products– Part2 Overview of the SMAP soil moisture products– Part3	NASA-ARSET
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00	Hands-on application of the SMAP soil moisture products	NASA-ARSET
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:00	GLOBE protocol for NASA product Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)	NASA-ARSET
15:00 – 15:30	Closure of the training Evaluation of course components Discussion of additional needs and opportunities	Organization Participants

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