Capacity Building & TIGERTestimonies of Learning Movements & Showcases

Dr. Zoltán Vekerdy1, Dr. Benjamin Koetz2 & Ir. Arno van Lieshout1

1 University of Twente, Faculty of Geoinformation Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC), Water Resources department

2 European Space Agency

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TIGER – Current & Planned ActivitiesDevelopment of African Capacity in Water Management

Scientific Component

Transition toOperationsComponent

Development and Demonstration

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TCBF extension

TIGER fellowships

TIGER service development

TIGER-NET

TIGER Capacity Building Facility II

TIGER Capacity Building Facility I

Development Line of TIGER

• TIGER is a contribution to the GEOSS• TCBF (lead by ITC) created in 2006 offering:

– Dedicated courses (in EU and in Africa) & E-learning;– Tailored technical support and research stages;

• Water Research Component– Support to 50 & 20 & 10 selected research projects in Africa– Regional Centres: AGHRYMET (Niger), RCMRD (Kenya), WRC

(SA), OSS (TU);– Free EO data, free training material

TIGER Capacity Building Facility (TCBF):Developing Knowledge and Scientific Capacity

Key partners in TIGER: CEOS (with a strong support from the CSA), the African Ministerial Council on Water, the African Development Bank, the African Union Commission and the UN-Africa Water Group (UNESCO, UN-ECA), DWAF, R. of South Africa, GEOSS, World Bank, Cap-Net.

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ISPRS Commission VI. Mid-Term Symposium:

Cross-Border Education for Global Geo-Information

TCBF approach

• Paradigm change was needed:

Capacity Building Building on Capacity

(Executive Seminar on Earth Observation for Improving Water Management in Africa, 2008: http://www.itc.nl/PDF/report_executive_seminar.pdf)

• There is an existing capacity in Africa; good starting point– Univerisities, regional centres, etc.– TIGER Capacity Building Facility Phase I– Other efforts (DevCoCast, GMES&Africa,

etc.)

TCBF - Capacity Building of People

TIGER CBF activities

• Support of 20 + 10 research projects• Support to Regional Offices• Fellowship programme (Alcantara)• Support of Projects in research and publications:

– AARSE conferences,– Special issue of Remote Sensing ‘Open’

• TIGER Workshop• Training Kit• Cooperation with other networks and donors (World Bank, CapNet)• Training courses on EO topics:

– Basics of EO,– Water quality– Radar applications– Small reservoirs and water body mapping, etc.

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Participants of CB actions

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DE courses (basic)

DE courses (advanced)

Short courses in EU

Supervision in EU

Training courses in Africa

TIGER-WB taining

TIGER-Cap-Net training

Workshop

Phase I (2006-08)

Phase II (2009-13)

Countries Involved:

• Burkina Faso• Chad• DRC• Egypt• Ghana• Kenya• Madagascar• Mali• Morocco• Namibia• Republic of Congo• Senegal• South Africa• Zambia

TIGER Phase II - Research Component: 20 Research Projects

Scientific Results presented in two special TIGER

sessions

The El Jadida Declaration – outcome of the AARSE2012 conference(2nd November 2012)

Recognising the importance and success of continued long term collaboration between European Space Agency and African scientists within the TIGER initiative on Earth Observation techniques related to water resources management;

To support the dedicated activities in the TIGER Capacity Building Facility and within the new TIGER-NET project as essential component to prepare the African water resources expert for the exploitation of African National satellites and the upcoming SENTINEL satellite fleet of the European Space Agency

Bridge to TIGER-NET: Users - African Water Authorities

International Research Studies• Collaboration between African

scientists and European research institutes

• 1 year scientific visits

Water Management Focus:• Water quality & reservoir monitoring• Irrigation monitoring• Ecological & hydrological modeling• Integrated Water Resource

Management

Implementation: • Funded by the ESA Alcantara studies• In 2012 6 studies funded each

100k€

TIGER – Alcantara FellowshipsAfrican – European research collaboration

European Research Institutes

Empowerment of Regional Centers:

• Focus on the TCBF Regional Centers: AGHRYMET (Niger), RCMRD (Kenya), WRC (South

Africa), OSS (Tunisia)

• Partnership with Cap-Net/UNDP for Training of the Trainers

• Partnership with World Bank in the Zambezi region

TIGER Capacity Building Facility: TCBF activities for 2012-15

Project Extension: • 350 k€ budget• KO July 2012

Training Kit

Zambia TrainingsEMWIS workshop

Zambian EO Training Programme

Objective: To train the key water professionals of Zambia’s public sector in the application of EO data for their day-to-day water management practices.

Training Course Topic Date1 Base-line mapping of small water bodies with

optical and SAR dataApril 2013

2 Flood risk and flood event mapping Tbd

3 Small water body and flood event mapping with the latest EO techniques (Sentinel-1)

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4 Land cover and erosion mapping Tbd

5 Irrigation and crop water demand 2nd Q 2015

6 Integrated Water Resources Management 4th Q 2015

Training Kit

• 5 application topics (three-day courses):– Flood and water body mapping with SAR– Evapotranspiration and drought– Crops and irrigation– Land cover– Water Quality

• 1 cross-cutting topic:– Data acquisition

• 70 hours of teaching• Freely accessible from the end of this year

Regional office trainings

• Four RO’s• Preparation for the utilization of the TIGER Training

Kit• Feedback from the TIGER community• Preparation for Cap-Net Training of Trainer courses in

the RO’s regions

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Training of Trainers – Cap-Net

• Phase 1: 4 Training of Trainers co-supported by Cap-Net and TCBF– 10 participants nominated by TCBF Regional Offices– 15 participants by Cap-Net– 2 courses were held in 2013:

• Land cover mapping in South Africa (SANSA, Cap-Net)– 260 applications– 30 participants from 18 African countries

• Water quality in Kenya (RCMRD, WaterCap)– 210 applications– 32 participants from 15 countries

– 2 courses to be held in 2014• Crop and irrigation monitoring (OSS, Tunisia)• Flood mapping (AGRHYMET, Niger)

• Phase 2: Further trainings – Given by Regional Offices and – Trained trainers

TIGER CBF point of contact:z.vekerdy@utwente.nl

Websites:http://www.itc.nl/tiger

http://www.tiger.esa.int

Latest Publications: TIGER Newletter #17TIGER report