ACTIVITIES in Mozambique:
 September
field trip: Chucri Sayegh met the Mozambique
partners for the first time. He was accompanied by Tom
Hammond and Gartner Lee experts: Matthew Wood and Greg
Wickware.
The project is progressing and will have an impact in
Mozambique. Partners are enthusiastic.
The project will help put in place a Decision Support
System relative to drought and flood monitoring and
response in the Limpopo basin. RADAR Sat imagery will
represent a main source of information for improving
existing hydrological models as well as increasing the
effectiveness of the web based DSS application. More
details coming soon.
June field trip:
The first field visit for Tom Hammond of IUCN-Canada
and Greg Wickware from Gartner Lee in June 2006 was
a success.
Details
(August 4th Webstory).
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MAJOR FUNDER: (contract signed in March 2006)
Canadian
Space Agency
(Agence spatiale canadienne) |
| Project Title: Remote sensing and GIS applied to integrated
water resource management |
IUCN offices:
IUCN Canada
IUCN
Mozambique Country Office
IUCN-ROSA
(Regional Office for Southern Africa)
Mozambique end-user: CENACARTA (Centro Nacional de
Cartografia e Teledetecção)
National Center for Cartography and Remote Sensing,
Mozambique |
Partner in Canada:
Gartner
Lee Ltd. - Environmental Strategies and Solutions
(Canadian consulting firm) |
| Contact in IUCN-Canada: Tom
Hammond, coordinator of the Conservation
Commons (Patrimoine
de connaissances sur la nature) |
IUCN-Canada
Project Executive Summary (PDF)
Origin
of the Tiger initiative: The Canadian Space Agency
(CSA) is a partner in this initiative: The European
Space Agency has launced the Tiger Initiative in response
to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD),
Johannesburg, South Africa, 2002. French
IUCN-Canada's project is one of seven of the Tiger initiative
with CSA: November
2005 CSA press release ; French |
