# Presentation: 846091

## Implementing GEOSS Goals in Mesoamerica through the SERVIR Project

**Implementing GEOSS Goals in Mesoamerica through the SERVIR Project**
**Dr Tom Sever, Daniel Irwin: NASA / MSFC**
**Dr. Sara Graves, Danny Hardin:**
**The University of Alabama in Huntsville**
**Presented by Danny Hardin**
**AGU May 2006**

## SERVIR Sponsors, Participants, & Contributors

**Notes:**
Funding institutions
Institutions funded specifically for SERVIR
Participating institutions – those who already had resources for the region or who expanded their resources to cover Mesoamerica

## SERVIR Web Site http://servir.msfc.nasa.gov/

**Four Main Sections**
**SERVIR Data**
**Online Maps**
**GEOSS Decision Support**
**3-D Visualizations**

**Notes:**
SERVIR website with resources organized according to the GEOSS societal benefit areas. This version will be on-line by June 30, 2006.

## SERVIR Nodes in Mesoamerica

**Each National Node has Local User Communities**

**National**
** ****Node**

**National Nodes are Located at Environmental Ministries of Mesoamerican Countries**

**GUATEMALA**

**EL SALVADOR**

**HONDURAS**

**COSTA RICA**

**BELIZE**

**MEXICO**

**NICARAGUA**

_**PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS**_
**Geography/Mapping**
**Biodiversity (Forest, Protected Areas)**
**Agriculture**

**UNIVERSITIES & NON- **_**GOVERNMENTAL **_
**Research/Educational**
**Conservation**
**Other**

_**PRIVATE SECTOR**_
**Hydroelectric **
**Aviation**
**Other**

**PANAMA**

**CATHALAC SERVIR Regional Node**

**Mesoamerican Regional Node is in Panama City**

## Disasters: Hurricanes

**Hurricane Mitch**

## Disasters: The 2005 Hurricane Season

## Disasters: Volcanic Activity

**Volcano Ilamatepec**
**Feb. 2001**

**Coatepeque Caldera **
**Last eruption ~60K years ago**

**Volcano Izalco, El Salvador’s **
**newest volcano, sprang up in 1770 **
**and erupted frequently until 1966**

**Volcano Ilamatepec erupted **
**on October 1, 2005 killing two**
**and displacing 2000 people. **
**On October 2, 2005 hurricane**
** ****Stan made landfall. Some 250,000 **
**people were displaced and 32,000 **
**had to be accommodated **
**temporarily in public facilities.**
**Today 5000 remain in shelters **

**Notes:**
On October 1, 2005, El Salvador’s Santa Ana Volcano, also known as the Ilamatepec Volcano, erupted—it’s first eruption since 1904. In addition to volcanic ash and lava flow, the October 1 eruption reportedly shot out car-sized lava rocks and a flood of boiling mud and water. According to BBC news and ReliefWeb reports, officials initially reported two deaths, several injuries, and the evacuation of approximately 2,000 people. El Salvador’s president warned of the possibility of a second eruption.
Volcanic activity is not unusual in El Salvador, which sits on the eastern edge of the Pacific Ring of Fire. As this three-dimensional image shows, volcanic activity has defined the geography of the region. This false-color image was made from data collected by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite on February 3, 2001, well before the 2005 eruption. The Santa Ana volcano rises on the left side of the image, forming a large flat-topped mound. The volcano sports several crescent-like craters—“nested” craters—at its summit and a 20-kilometer-long system of fissures. A tiny blue spot in the center of the inner-most crater is a crater lake, the likely source of the boiling water flood.
Behind Santa Ana is a large caldera lake inside the Coatepeque Caldera. This caldera was created when a series of volcanoes like Santa Ana collapsed in explosive eruptions between 72,000 and 57,000 years ago. There is no record of historical eruptions of the Coatepue Caldera. In the foreground is El Salvador’s newest volcano, Izalco. Izalco sprang up in 1770 and erupted frequently until 1966. The young volcano isn’t covered in vegetation (red in this image), but remains black with recent lava flows. 

## Disaster: SERVIR Disaster Products

**Notes:**
Following hurricane Stan in October 2005. SERVIR partners quickly generated data products that aided in the relief effort. Data resources were made available through the SERVIR website.

## Ecology: 

**Mesoamerica: 1% of Earth’s landmass, **
**but 7- 8% of world’s plant and animal species**

**Notes:**
Rich ecology

## Ecology: Mesoamerican Biological Corridor

**Legally Protected Areas**

**Proposed Corridor**

**Proposed Protected Areas**

**Notes:**
The MBC is a corridor of wilderness that stretches from Columbia to Southern Mexico although very tenuous. The SERVIR project is working to preserve that corridor so that natural migratory paths are not lost.

## Ecology: Central American Ecosystems

- Production of the Central American Ecosystems Map was a team effort by the biodiversity and environmental conservation institutions of the Central American countries and their coordinating institution, the *Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo *(CCAD).

**Notes:**
CCAD has developed an ecosystem map for the entire region

## Weather: Data Products – Viewed in World Wind

**GOES Infrared**

**GOES Wind Shear**

- Weather: Data Products – Viewed in World Wind

**Notes:**
This slide uses two movies that show GOES based animations in World Wind.
FILE left image: GOES12_Wind_Shear_WW.avi 
FILE right image: GOES_WW_IR.avi

## Weather: Short Term Numerical Forecasting

- Weather: Short Term Numerical Forecasting

**Notes:**
The SPoRT project is working with SERVIR to provide weather and climate products for Mesoamerica

## Weather: Experimental Products - Nowcasting

- Weather: Experimental Products - Nowcasting

**Notes:**
The atmospheric science department of UAH and the University of Wisconsin are producing experimental nowcasting data products.

## Climate: Climate Change Scenarios

**2005**
**2010**
**2020**
**2025**

**Notes:**
Long term climate predictions from Jayanthi Srikishen NSSTC/USRA

## Climate: Experimental Products – Cloud Climatology

**Notes:**
Cloud Climatology from John Mecilkalski UAH

## Ocean/Marine Environments: Red Tide Data

**Imagery of harmful Algal Blooms are produced daily **
**From MODIS Aqua data and posted to the website. A 30 day **
**rolling window of images is maintained.**

**Notes:**
Red tide imagery is produced daily from MODIS data and posted to the SERVIR website. A 30 day rolling window of inventory is maintained. The product generation algorithm employed is from the GSFC Ocean’s Color group.

## Ocean/Marine Environments: Red Tides

**Red Tide Imagery in NASA Word Wind**

**Red Tide Imagery in Google Earth**

**Notes:**
Red tide imagery displayed with NASA World Wind and Google Earth – two viewers employed by the SERVIR project.

## Water: Surface Water Monitoring

## Water: Floods

**Panama City Floods **
**of 17-18 September 2004**
**GOES IR imagery**

**1998**

**2004**

**2005**

**Nicaragua **
**Flooding **

**Notes:**
Left: Flood extent data from the DFO.
Right: Panama City Floods of 17-18 September 2004 GOES IR imagery every 30 minutes from 06:15 UTC until 23:45 UTC 17 September at a spatial resolution of 4 km centered on Panama by Bob Oglesby. 

## Water: Post Flood Change – Rio Sixaola

- ASTER

- SPOT

**Notes:**
Flood events can change the course of rivers. In this case the river separated Costa Rica and Panama. Following the event the two countries exchanged land.

## Agriculture: Land Cover and Land Use Change

**Conservation & Preservation**
**Transportation Infrastructure **
**- Urban Growth Planning**
**- Human Impacts on the Land**
**- Infrastructure and Utilities **

**Peten, Guatemala (1986-1995)**

**Notes:**
Deforestation in Guatemala from 1986 to 1995. Mostly due to slash and burn agriculture.

## Agriculture: Fires Time Lapse 9/2001 - 8/2002

**Notes:**
This chart shows a time lapse of fire activity from 2001-2002
FILE: CenAmWClk.640x480_large.mpeg

## Agriculture: Slash and Burn

**Notes:**
Left: The UMD web fire mapper is a web map server that gives the locations of fires for the past 48 hours and 7 days plus other time periods. The products are based on MODIS fires rapid response data.

Right: UMD also allows users to sign up for daily fire alerts sent by e-mail.

## Human Health:

**The goal of the Mesoamerican Food Security Early Warning System Network (MFEWS) is to strengthen the abilities of foreign countries and regional organizations to manage risk of food insecurity through the provision of timely and analytical early warning and vulnerability information.**** **

**Notes:**
In the area of Human Health SERVIR utilizes reports from the MFEWS system. 

## Human Health: Guatemala & Mexico Fires 

**Notes:**
Fires also cause atmospheric pollution that is detrimental to human health. Here is a time lapse of four days from march 2003. During this event the smoke reached the southeastern US.

## Human Health: Red Tide Data in World Wind

**The El Salvadoran fishing industry relies on SERVIR red tide data products to avoid toxic fishing locations.**

**Notes:**
Red tides create contaminated fishing environments. The fishing industry of El Salvador utilizes the daily red tide imagery from SERVIR to locate safe fishing regions. This has resulted in major savings for the industry as well as healthier fish for consumption.

## Energy:  Potential SERVIR - SWERA Collaboration

**Project Aim**
- The aim of SWERA is to support informed
- decision-making, develop policy based on
- science and technology, and increase investor
- interest in renewable energy projects. UNEP
- encourages industry, investors, researchers,
- and government agencies to continuously share
- information that will facilitate decisions to
- broadly deploy solar and wind energy projects.
- SWERA is also aimed at transforming the
- ability of developing countries to assess the
- technical, economic, and environmental
- potential for large-scale investments in solar
- and wind energy facilities.

**Notes:**
Currently there is no specific energy component (one GEOSS area) within SERVIR. However the SWERA system is a potential collaborative project.

## Data Resources: MesoStor

**Notes:**
MesoStor is a data inventory system located in Panama City, Panama. It contains Landsat, ASTER, SRTM, and many other data sets for Mesoamerica. It was developed by the CAST group at the University of Arkansas. MesoStor users must register to use the system. 

## Data Resources: GeoIntegrator

**Notes:**
SERVIR also provides a custom web map viewer known as the GeoIntegrator. Users can select layers from the local system or connect to remote WMS throughout the region. This series of pictures shows how a layer is added to the map from a remote web server (SWERA) in Nicaragua.

## GeoIntegrator: Layer Added

**Notes:**
The layer from Nicaragua has been added to the web map viewer and appears at the list on the top left.

## SERVIR Main Node: Panama

**Notes:**
The SERVIR node in the City of Knowledge just outside Panama City, Panama. Here we see the Miraflores locks at the Pacific side of the Panama Canal. Zooming to an aerial view of the campus which was once Clayton Army base. Then an outside view of the building that houses CATHALAC (The Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean) and the SERVIR regional node.

## SERVIR Lab in Panama - Interior

**Notes:**
Inside the SERVIR node in Panama. Equipment was donated by Dell and software has been donated by ESRI among others.

## SERVIR Lab - National Space Science and Technology Center Huntsville Alabama

**Notes:**
The US SERVIR node is located in Huntsville Alabama at the National Space Science and Technology Center. It was developed and is operated by the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Here applications are developed and tested. Operation applications are transferred to the Regional Node in Panama. Here Danny Hardin is training Ronnie from Costa Rica on 3-D applications. Following his training Ronnie developed an exhibit for the Museum in San Jose CR – shown on the next chart.

## Earth Simulator “CA-05” at InBio Park, Costa Rica

**Notes:**
Visitors to the museum are treated to a 3-D “spacedome” like facility where they experience 3-D “fly throughs” of the region that point out geologic and biological items of importance. The software used is Terra Explorer from Skyline Software Corporation. Data is from Landsat, MODIS, ASTER, IKONOS as well as in situ data and GIS layers.

## Project Leaders 

**Dr. Tom Sever **

**Daniel Irwin **

**Notes:**
PI of NASA REASoN CAN: Dr. Tom Sever
Project lead: Dan Irwin