Presented in “China – Thailand Geo-Informatics Workshop Series I: Agricultural Applications” 30 June - 2 July 2010 at Pattaya, Thailand

1. Progress of Land Ecosystem Studies with Geo-Information and Space Technology in Great Mekong Subregion (GMS) Prof. Liu Chuang International Cooperation Program of Institute of Remote Sensing Applications Data Center on Natural Resources and Environment of Institute of Geography and Natural Resources Chinese Academy of Sciences China-Thailand Geo-Information Workshop Series 1: Agricultural Applications 30 June 2010, Pattaya, Thailand

2. Outlines Background and Objectives Progress of Land Ecosystem Studies on GMS Further Actions conclusion

3. 1.1 Background: Six Countries Share One River – Mekong River

5. 1.1 Background: Great Mekong Subregion GMS, from ADB in 1992, includes six countries, Cambodia, People’s Republic of China (two provinces), the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, covers 2.57 Millions KM2 and 325 Millions people

6. If you want to rich, you have to be reached firstthen business follows 81 priority projects was funded by ADB from 1992-2011. The estimated total investment for these projects within the 20 years is USD 14,056 Millions. Transportation, energy, economic corridors, communication, tourism, agriculture, environment, public health, capacity building, trade facilities are major fields of the joint activities. Three economic corridors are on the way to be established based on the traffic corridors

7. 1.2 Background: On-going Cooperation Projects UN GAID e-SDDC Phase II: 2010-2012 Focus: Scientific data for support UN MDGs in regional level (cross countries), with the progress assessment methodology (in time serious) IRSA is the data and information achieve and service center for the UN GAID e-SDDC Joint Project of Science Council of Asia on Open and Application Scientific Data for Poverty Reduction and Ecosystem Protection in Asia Co-chaired by Liu Chuang from CAS and Parkon (Chairman of WGISS/CEOS) from GISTDA

8. Joint International Workshop in September 2009 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolian Joint together with APN, WGISS/CEOS, CODATA and UN GAID e-SDDC More than 40 participates from Mongolia, Japan, China, Thailand, as well as USA and ESA jointed the workshop A new and practical methodology how to use the updated space science and technology for climate change and ecosystem monitoring analysis was discussed

9. 1.3 Objectives Land Ecosystem Map of GMS in 1: 1million scale and validated samples in 20-30 meters pixels Provide online application services for GMS studies Show case how to use geo-information and space technology to support the cross boundary research and decision making

10. 2. Progress of Land Ecosystem Studies on GMS CBERS, HJ, TM/ETM, MODIS Remote Sensing Data Fundamental geo-informatics (BND, rivers, road, rroad, pplacesp, pplacesg) DEM and Landforms (landform types, slopes) Climate (temperature, rainfall, regionalization) Socio-economics (BND, investment from ADB projects, UN statistics) Cases of Land Cover classification with support from CBERS integrating with TM/ETM and MODIS

11. CBERS

12. MODIS LandSat TM/ETM+

13. DEM and Landform

14. Land Slope Map

15. Landform Classification Map

16. Climate data Example: data from 15stations

17. Climate (tmp)

18. ClimateRainfall

19. ClimateRegionali-zation

20. Climate regionali-zation of Thailand

21. Administrative Boundary GIS data

22. 泰国一级水系 泰国二级水系

24. Land Cover

26. 3. Further Actions Complete the Land Ecosystem Classification for Map of Land Ecosystem of GMS In 1:1M Data Integrating and Mining for Land Ecosystem Classification in GMS Validation with high resolution remote sensing images in cases studies Development of date sharing and service system Development of an e-Science platform

27. 3. Further Actions Provide suggestions and recommendations to decision makers Development of international cooperation

28. 4. Conclusion From our experiences on geo-information and space science application for land ecosystem analysis in GMS, land ecosystem mapping is the fundamental data and information for agriculture and environment Making science benefit society, it may be a special case or examples for UN MDGs and e-SCIENCES It may be good start for the cooperation between IRSA and GISTDA

29. Thank You !