IAI Organizers

Holm Tiessen
Director
Tel.: +55 12 3945 6854
email: htiessen_AT_dir.iai.int

Marcella Ohira
Assistant Director: Capacity Building
Tel.: +55 12 3945 6858
email: marcella_AT_dir.iai.int

INPE Organizer

Cláudia de Albuquerque Linhares
Biologist, Remote Sensing Dr. (INPE)
Tel.: +55 12 3945 6454
email: linhares_AT_dpi.inpe.br

Place where the TI was held

INPE - Natal (RN) (click here to see the location map)
Rua Carlos Serrano, 2073 - Lagoa Nova
Caixa Postal: 130 - CEP: 59076-740
Fone: +55 84 3231-4733 / Fax: +55 84 3231-4941

Hotel information

PontalMar Hotel
Rua Inácio Vale, 8868, Ponta Negra, Natal/RN
Fone: +55 84 3646-4444

Collaborators

INPE-Natal (Miguel Cuellar)
UFRN (Arthur Mattos)
EMBRAPA (Luciano Accioly)

Blog

http://disbr1.iai.int/Blog/

Agenda (portuguese, english)

Program (portuguese, english)

Final Report

Tabla de información

Links

http://www.agu.org/sections/atmos/Newsletters/ASnewsletterVol3No3.pdf

Background and Justification

The Training Institute on Remote Sensing Application to Hydrology in Semi-Arid regions addressed the theme – how to assess regional water availability and vulnerability of communities in the context of basin hydrology. Water needs for agriculture, irrigation, cities and industry were related to potential changes in watershed function under land cover change.

Vulnerability to water shortage is not only the result of the natural setting, but is also related to shortage of information on changes in space and time of basin hydrology in response to climatic, geological and human factors. In most semi-arid regions there is lack of quality information on natural resources. In order to fill this gap, the training activity focused on the use of remote sensing to obtain crucial hydrological information enabling natural resources managers and local communities to a more efficient use of water. The training course was customized to look at the relationship between time changes in water availability in the Brazilian semi-arid Northeast for crop production. Agriculture in the semi-arids takes place in valleys with greater water availability. In spite of the importance of those valleys to local economy and food security, there is a complete lack of information on the amount of valley area available for crop. Moreover, there is little information on the inter-annual changes in the moisture retained in those valleys in response to climate, vegetation degradation, diversion or impoundment of water. Taking into account the multidisciplinary nature of the issues that where addressed in the training institute, the course was opened to professionals from different fields, such as agriculture, hydrology, remote sensing, ecology, geography, economics, etc.

In this course, the participants where able to learn how to use Shuttle Radar Topographic Mapping mission (SRTM) data to map valleys and compute their extent in different landscapes. They have also learned how to assess seasonal changes in the water availability within the valleys by using time series of soil moisture and vegetation indexes derived from MODIS data, among others. The IAI Training Institute on Remote Sensing Application to Semi-Arid Hydrology was an effort to assist policy and decision-makers to take advantage of the available remote sensing technology for obtaining the necessary information to prepare better responses to the challenges of planning environmental control policies to increase food security in semi-arid regions.

Objectives: The main objective of the training institute was to expand our understanding of how remote sensing information can provide information to help assessing the impacts of global change on the hydrology of semi-arid regions based on the example, of time changes in water availability in valleys in response to inter-annual variability of precipitation. Other objectives where: 1) to bring multidisciplinary approaches to the use of remote sensing to hydrology, including in the analyses of the physiographic variables affecting water; 2) to give background information to the participants on hydrology and its connections with other environmental and socioeconomic factors; 3) to give background information on remote sensing to encourage them to widen the application to various information needs; 4) to prepare them to use research to shape policies for sustainable use of water resources for agriculture or for multiple uses; 5) to identify information on remote sensing data sources, 6) to develop a regional and international knowledge network to make operational use of remote sensing technology for water management.

Speakers

Arthur Mattos - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) - Presentation
André Lima - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) - Presentation_Part1, Presentation_Part2, Presentation_Part3
Camilo Rennó- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) - Presentation
Claudia Linhares- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
Edison Crepani - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) - Presentation
José Santino - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa de Alagoas (FAPEAL) - Presentation
Luciano Accioly - Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA) - Presentation
Regina Alvala - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) - Presentation
Roxana Aragón - Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) - Presentation
Humberto Alves Barbosa - Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL) - Presentation
Rômulo Menezes - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) - Presentation
Everardo Sampaio - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) - Presentation
Vinícius Queiroga Duarte - Companhia Hidro Elétrica do São Francisco (CHESF)

Participants

Carine Antunes Correia Marinho - CHESF
Celina Santoni - Universidad Nacional de San Luis/CONICET
Constanza Caride - Universidad de Buenos Aires
Dolores Lettelier - CONICET
Eduardo Bustos - Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Elke Noellemeyer - Universidad Nacional de La Pampa
Ethel Rubin de Celis - Universidad Nac Agraria La Molina (UNALM)
Francisco Rafael Sousa Freitas - Fundação Norte Riograndense de Pesquisa e Cultura (FUNPEC)
Gustavo Cruz Bello - National Inst Forestry Agr Livestock R.
Iêdo Bezerra Sá - EMBRAPA Semi-Árido
Javier Houspanossian - GEA/CONICET
José Américo Bordini do Amaral - EMBRAPA Agroindústria Trop
Juliano Schirmbeck - SulSoft/UNICEN-IHLLA
Katia Arraes - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE - Natal)
Lidia Ferri Hidalgo - IANIGLA
Manuel Rodrigues de Freitas Filho - FUNCEME / Univ.Est. Ceará
Maria Carolina da Motta Agra - CHESF
Mariano Oyarzabal - IFEVA
Mayra Milkovic - IFEVA
Moira Doyle - Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET
Patrick Debels - Independent Environmental Consultant
Pierre Pitte - IANIGLA / CONICET
Raniere Rodrigues Melo de Lima - Federal University of State Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
Raúl Ramirez - Universidad Simón Bolívar
Thaise Emmanuele Andrade de Sales - Federal University of State Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

Other Events

ICID II - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: CLIMATE, SUSTAINABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT IN SEMI-ARID REGIONS
Fortaleza, 16 to 20 August, 2010.

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