Recent Activities of Sentinel Asia Since 2020

8th Joint Project Team Meeting
September 17, 2023
Deputy Executive Secretariat of Sentinel Asia
Goro Takei

1. Membership Status of Sentinel Asia

In total: 114 organizations. 6 organizations newly joined as below:- United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP) in September 2020
- Kobe University, Japan in April 2021
- National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience(NIED) of Japan in May 2021
- Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), Turkey in July 2022
- Philippine Space Agency（PhilSA）in January 2023
- Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) in May 2023

(As of September 2023)

22. New Satellites Contributions to Sentinel Asia
✓ MBRSC and CRISP newly registered their satellites, respectively“KhalifaSat” and “TeLEOS-1” as contributing satellites since 2020

KhalifaSat image

TeLEOS-1 image

Explosion in Lebanon
Acquired on 5 August 2020
©MBRSC

Tropical storm Viet Nam
Acquired on 23 September 2020
©CRISP33. Emergency Observation Requestby Geographical Distribution
Kazakhstan 5Uzbekistan
5 Kyrgyz

1 10 Tajikistan

Turkey 5Korea
ChinaIran11Lebanon

1 Afghanisan
NepalUAE91Pakistan

Bhutan31025 Japan

24India

36

Taiwan616
12 Bangladesh
57 Vietnam
Myanmar 14
Thailand 16

Sri Lanka

154 Laos

4 Cambodia

Malaysia 258 Philippines

3 BruneiIndonesia 59

2 PNG

1Timor-Leste

Solomon Islands
3FijiVanuatu 2#3

Number of activations

36 countries/regions
422 disasters

Feb. 2007 - Sep. 2023

Australia

53TongaNZ

143.1 Volcano Eruption in Indonesia inDecember 2021
✓JICA requested emergency observation on Volcano Eruption of Mt. Semeru✓Thanks to disaster information provided by Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS),
Nanyang Technological University and optical satellite data from FORMOSAT-5
TASA on Web-GIS, JICA found potential
landslide risk information that was hard toacquire from the field survey

Pyroclastic flow5

3.2 Flood in Pakistan in August 2022
✓Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) of Pakistan requested emergency
observation through Asia Institute of Technology (AIT) and Asia Disaster Reduction
Center (ADRC) activated✓Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), United Nations World Food Program(UNWFP), a Consultant of a World Bank project, and a disaster response NGO askedfor their access to the Web-GIS to monitor the impact of flood in Pakistan

63.2 Flood in Pakistan : Statistic information✓JICA expected the statistic information such as affected population to understand thescale of the food impact✓In this regard, JAXA created below affected population information as sample andintroduced it to JICA

✓ Created by overlaying flooddetected area and world
population information providedby UN.
✓ Color gradation from paleorange to brown indicatesincrease of affected population.

https://sentinelasia.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/sidebar/index.html?appid=d5ae4fbba046423892df17cad7da40b37

3.3 Volcano Eruption in Tonga in January 2022
✓ADRC requested emergency observation on Volcano Eruption in Tonga✓JICA HQ shared the disaster information provided by Sentinel Asia to JICA Fiji Office,that oversees surrounding islands including Tonga

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3.3 Volcano Eruption in Tonga in January 2022
✓ JICA appreciated the disaster information provided by Mohammed Bin RashidSpace Centre(MBRSC), which indicates the potential impact of the Tsunami andAsh since there was no information from Tonga due to the communication issuesDisaster information provided by MBRSC
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3.4 Earthquake in Turkey in February 2023
✓Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency of Turkey (AFAD) requested emergency
observation✓AFAD, disaster relief team and UNWFP used disaster assessment map to monitor the impact ofthe earthquake✓5 organizations provided satellite data and 8 organizations provided analyzed disaster
assessment maps

FORMOSAT-5
Cartosat-3

KhalifaSat

THEOS1103.4 Earthquake in Turkey in February 2023

Damage Proxy Mapby Earth Observatory of Singapore(EOS)

Significant damage map by MBRSCWeb-GIS overlaying
potentially damaged
areas and maps

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/3933d7b09edf4187a2e969e39558aa7f?item=1

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3.5 Oil Spill in the Philippines in March 2023
PhilSA requested emergency observation on oil spill, and held media briefing/press
conference with estimated extent of oil spill maps provided by Sentinel Asia
✓ In response to this incident, the Japan Disaster Relief (JDR) Expert Team wasdispatched for gathering information on the oil spill situation, checking oil removal
and control activities and technical advisory✓ JDR Expert Team used estimated extent of oil spill maps provided by Sentinel Asia
✓ 4 organizations provided satellite data and 2 organizations provided estimated extentof oil spill maps

PhilSA showed journalists extent of Mindoro
oil spill as captured by satellite images

PhilSA showed journalists extent of Mindoro
oil spill as captured by satellite images

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3.6 Cyclone MOCHA in Myanmar in May 2023
✓ AHA Centre requested emergency observation on Cyclone MOCHA in Myanmar inMay 2023
✓ Thanks to disaster information provided by Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS),
Nanyang Technological University, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and MBRSC,AHA Centre could monitor the impact of the cyclone✓ The flood proxy map provided by EOS was introduced on the report of AHA Centre

Flood Proxy Map
by Earth Observatory of Singapore(EOS)

Detected water area map
by Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)AHA Centre Situation Report： https://ahacentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/AHA-Situation_Report3-TC-MOCHA-Myanmar.pdf
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3.6 Cyclone MOCHA in Myanmar in May 2023
✓ AIT and EOS VAP along with WebGIS was used in the TV News Program in JAPANThe VAPs were recognized that the area of the flood is easy to grasp to the viewers ofthe TV program.

Flooded area map
by MBRSC

Japanese TV program, “TV Asahi Hodo Station”
144.1 Webinar co-organizedby ISRO and IWMI
✓ The first Sentinel Asia Webinar titled “Space Technology for Drought Risk Management”
was held in July 2021
✓ 50 experts and practitioners from the Sentinel Asia community participated andacknowledged the new technologies to minimize economic losses by drought

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4.2 Webinar co-organizedby ISRO and IWMI
✓ The second Sentinel Asia Webinar titled “Space Technology for Flood
Forecast Modelling” was held in October 2021
✓ Engineers and researchers were participated in this webinar16

5.1 Establishment of the Standard
Operating Procedures (SOPs)✓ In 2021, SOPs for making Emergency Observation Requests(EORs) to Sentinel Asia were
established in below countries and regions:- Cambodia and Laos
- Central Asia and Caucasus- Pacific Islands✓ For prompt EORs to Sentinel Asia including escalation to the Charter, the below organizations
are to play hub roles in making EORs through close communication with local DMOs:- AHA Centre: ASEAN countries including Cambodia and Laos
- Central Asian Institute of Applied Geosciences (CAIAG): Central Asian/Caucasus countries- Pacific Community (SPC) : the Pacific Islands
Ex. CAIAG made EOR for Tajikistan Earthquake in July 2021

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5.2 Establishment of the Standard
Operating Procedures (SOPs)✓ Institutionalized use of Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP)
as reference information for making EORs
✓ Easy and real-time provision of local information on the disaster via webbased mobile application developed by AIT to calibrate accuracy ofdisaster information provided by Sentinel Asia
Mobile application developed by AIT・Web link: https://arcg.is/1HWGWX0・QR Code:186. AHA Centre Executive Programme(ACE Programme)✓ Special session titled “Sentinel Asia for the ASEAN Region” was held in November
2021 during the “Japan Disaster Risk Reduction Online Course” hosted by the AHA
Centre and Kobe University✓ At the session, experts from ADRC, the University of Tokyo, and the JAXA/Sentinel
Asia Secretariat gave lectures and hands-on training courses✓ More than 30 future young leaders from 24 NDMOs as well as AHA Centre staffmembers attended the session

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7. JICA’s Online Training Course✓ Introduced Sentinel Asia activities in November 2021 during JICA’s online training
course titled “Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction in Small Island”✓ At the course, experts from ADRC, AIT, and Sentinel Asia Secretariat gave lectures✓ Officials responsible for disaster risk reduction in the central or local governments ofFiji, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu watched the lecture andacknowledged the importance of space technology in disaster risk reduction20

8. Sentinel Asia’s VoluntaryCommitments to the Sendai Framework219. Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference
On Disaster Risk Reduction✓ Promoted Sentinel Asia’s activities at the exhibition 19 to 22 September 2022 inBrisbane, Australia
Opening Ceremony✓ More than 100 participants visited
Sentinel Asia booth per day

Exhibition booth with Nepal participants

Exhibition booth22

10. Sentinel Asia Interview articles✓ 20 interview articles were released since 2020

Mr. KWOH Leong KeongCentre for Remote Imaging, Sensing andProcessing (CRISP)

Dr. Hitoshi Taguchi,
National Research Institute for Earth
Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED)

https://sentinel-asia.org/interview/interview.html

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10. Sentinel Asia Interview articles✓ 20 interview articles were released since 2020

Dr. Lal Samarakoon
Former Director of AITEarth Observatory of Singapore (EOS)

https://sentinel-asia.org/interview/interview.html

2411. Published Sentinel Asia Annual Report
Published annual report in 2019, 2020, and 2021

Courtesy ofYamaguchi University
Courtesy of the University of Tokyo
Courtesy of GISTDA
https://sentinel-asia.org/reports/Reports.html

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