Cambodia
1. BackgroundCambodia became the 104th member of theCambodia, known as Pearl of Asia in 1960’s,

Group on Earth Observation (GEO) in 2017. Afterunfortunately fell into war and become known

became the membership, the GEO unit has

to the world as a Killing Field and a genocidal

been set up under the National Institute ofcountry in the 1970’s. More than 2.5 million

Statistics, Ministry of Planning. The budget andpeople were killed by the ultra-leftist Khmer

work plan of the project have been put in theRoge. Its social economic infrastructures wereannual budget programme of National Institutealmost completely destroyed. But since 1999 itof Statistics. The project has been started sincehas been rebuilt again and has since become a2019

peaceful country and developed thanks to theGovernment of Cambodia and there are 5“Win Win” policy under clear-signed andreported has been produced based on data

realistic leadership of its former Prime Ministercollection for primary data and secondary data.

Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN

2. Vision and Mission

SEN, the Royal Government of Cambodia

2.1 Vision

together with the valuable moral and material

The main vision of Cambodia GEO is to develop

assistance from the international community.

“Data Cube in Cambodia” and in the future forAfternewmonitoring natural resources and man-cause

government leading by Samdech Moha Borvor

disasters such as flood, drought, rain storm,Thipadei HUN MANET, Prime Minister, the Royaltyphoon,Government of Cambodia has continued thedeforestation as a part of SDGs implementation.

achievement of the former Prime Minister

2.2 Mission

Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN

The main mission of Cambodia GEO is toSEN through the successfully implemented theprepare the work plan of the project for data

Triangular

Strategy

andcollection, analysis and dissemination. It is also

Strategyindistinct

nationalelection

four

2023,

thetheRectangularphases.

These

until

2023

fundedthunderstorm,

bylandtheslide,

Royal

and

to strengthen institutional capacity building ofachievements have resulted in commendable

this project.

progress in all sectors, including politics, society,

3. Data collectionand economy enabling Cambodia to proudly

The main activities of this project are collecting

renew its image. The new government isdata for primary data in the field and secondary

implementing the Pentagonal Strategy-Phase I

data from relevant ministries and governmentfor Growth, Employment, Equity, Efficiency, andinstitution involvement. The Cambodia GEO will

Sustainability: Building the Foundation Toward

also use the satellite data sharing from GEO

Realizing the Cambodia Vision 2050.

memberCambodia population size is 15.6 million in 2019

economic data has collected from survey andand it will increase 21.7 million in 2050 while

government

GDP per capita 2022 is 2,345US$ based on theprimary data has collected from the head ofbase year 2014 with inflation March 2023 is 1.1%.

household and head of village focus on main

countries

combineinstitution

withinvolvement.

socialTheindicators such as demographic, environment,

5. Challenges

disaster and climate change. The secondary

There are many challenges during implement

data has collected from Ministry of Environment,

this project because it is the new work for

Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology,

Cambodia. The main challenges as descripted

National Institute of Statistics, National Disasterin the below.

Authority, Mine Authority of Cambodia, and- The capacity building of staff limited

other documents from the internet etc.

- The budget support from the government

4. Finding

has limited

Due to rapid population growth which causes- No satellite data.

the increase of urbanization, some land has

6. Way forward

transformed from rice field to settlement and

The main activities of Cambodia GEO in theother land uses giving negative impacts tofuture are to:environment such as water pollution and poor

- To continue the data collection for primarysanitation. Based on the data collection in 2023,

and secondary data as well as satellite data as

it has shown that the infrastructure and rice andpossible

crop have broken by flooding and the 6,644- To improve capacity building by training infamilies who living in along the river has also

short course or long term as possible

affected by flooding. The thunderstorm has- To coordinate ad finding support fromkilled 46 people and 39 people has injured whiledevelopment partner s possible out of thein 2021 about 5,145 households has affected bygovernment budget.

storm and it has killed 25 people. The 28,688
people were killed by mine and old weapon
remaining from the civil war from 1992 to 2023.
The rise river water has decreased gradually,raining fall is irregularly and the air temperature
in Cambodia during dry season is significantly
high approximately 38.4OC to 45OC in the year
2023. The result shows that in 2023, thetemperature fluctuates very much in both dry
and wet seasons which is too cold in wet season
and too hot in dry season and it is considered as
the cause by the global warming. The land
cover in the whole year 2023 from the satellite
data sharing by ESRI, NASA by using Sentinel2Satellite has shown that it has water (20%),
Trees(36%), Flood(0.8%), Crops(28%), Built (6%)
and Range(9%).