1. NATIONAL DISASTER
MANAGEMENT OFFICE
HATFIELD CONSULTANTS AFRICA
SIMON HUGHES, DIRECTOR
28 APRIL 2011
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2. CONTENTS
› Hatfield Consultants
› Capabilities
› Project examples
› Lower Mekong Flood Monitoring Service
› Japan 2011 Earthquake/Tsunami
› Namibia Flood mapping
› River Awareness Kits
› Opportunities for support to NDMO?
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3. ABOUT HATFIELD
› Hatfield has provided environmental
services to industry and government
for over 35 years
› 1600 projects completed in over
40 countries
› 75 professional staff in offices in Canada,
Indonesia and Africa
› Recipient of awards for:
› Corporate Social Responsibility
› International Development Services
› Linear Development Services
› ISO 9001:2000 certified
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4. WHAT WE DO BEST
› Integrated Aquatic Services:
› Fish Habitat Assessment
› Fish Habitat Compensation Planning
› Fish Inventories
› Hydrology
› Water and Sediment Monitoring
› Environmental Impact Assessment
› Environmental Management
› Environmental Effects Monitoring
› Remote Sensing and GIS
› Web-Based Environmental Information
Systems:
> Permit Tracking > Environmental
Databases
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5. ADVANTAGES & STRENGTHS
› Team of multi-disciplinary
specialists (environment,
fisheries, social/gender, GIS
remote sensing)
› Offices around the world
› Strategic partnerships
› Award winning track-record of
projects
› Experience on small and large
projects in all aspects of the
project life-cycle
› Quick response time
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6. PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES
› We use participatory approaches
to ensure meaningful stakeholder
input including:
› Focus groups
› Workshops
› Interviews and surveys
› Training and capacity
development are integral to all
our work.
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7. HATFIELD OFFICES
Ft. McMurray,
Alberta
Calgary,
Alberta
Vancouver,
British Columbia
Bogor,
Indonesia
Gaborone,
Botswana
› Established August 2010
› Fully registered in Botswana
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8. HATFIELD AFRICA
› Information Communications Technologies (ICT)
› Environmental Information Systems
› Website & CD-ROM development
› Hatfield Content Management System - HatCMS
› Geographic Information Systems
› Cartography
› Remote Sensing and Satellite Image Sales
› Web-delivery – map services & Google Earth/Maps
› Training and Capacity Development
› Reporting writing and editing
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9. ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION
SYSTEMS
› User Needs Analysis
› Training & Capacity Building
› Environmental Data Management
› Data clean-up, preparation and input into
database formats
› Data management and reporting systems
› Data analysis and reporting
› Web-Based Project Management Systems
› Permit tracking
› Document and image management
› Collaboration tools
› Data Exchange Services
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10. GEOMATICS
› Products:
› High resolution satellite imagery - 50cm upwards
› GeoEye, RapidEye, etc
› Landcover and vegetation maps, including
change detection
› Hydrologically corrected DEMs
› Services:
› Spatial data acquisition, capture
› Satellite image acquisition and preparation for
GIS
› GIS database design
› Spatial analysis
› Cartography and Web-mapping
› Development of Google Earth/Maps services
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11. EXAMPLE PROJECTS
› Mekong River Commission Flood Monitoring
› Japan Earthquake/Tsunami
› Namibia Flood Mapping
› SADC Economic Accounting for Water Use
› River Awareness Kits
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12. LOWER MEKONG RIVER BASIN
FLOOD MONITORING
› Flood Monitoring service – Mekong flood
season
› Entire Lower Mekong Basin
› Weekly coverage, near-real time
› 70+ products per ‘date’
› Basin
› Flood extent
› Flood extent change
› Individual hydrometric stations
› Flood extent
› Flood extent change
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13. FLOOD EXTENT AND CHANGE
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14. STATION FLOOD EXTENT
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15. STATION FLOOD EXTENT CHANGE
Expansion
Recession
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16. JAPAN EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI
› Canadian Space Agency contract to support
disaster relief
› International Disaster Management Charter
› RADARSAT-2
› Iwati and Sendai prefectures before
(2010-05-11) and after (2011-03-12) tsunami
› Identified extent of inundation and
infrastructure damage
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17. JAPAN EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI
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18. JAPAN EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI
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19. NAMIBIA FLOOD MAPPING
› Canadian Space Agency contract to support
disaster relief
› International Disaster Management Charter
› RADARSAT-2
› Cuvelai River
› Kavango River
› Flood extent
› Inundation estimates
› 15, 19, 21, 22 March 2011
› Semi-automated feature extraction
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20. NAMIBIA FLOOD MAPPING 15 MARCH 2011
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21. NAMIBIA FLOOD MAPPING 19 MARCH 2011
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22. NAMIBIA FLOOD MAPPING 21 MARCH 2011
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23. NAMIBIA FLOOD MAPPING 22 MARCH 2011
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24. NAMIBIA FLOOD MAPPING 21 MARCH 2011
FEATURE EXTRACTION – FLOOD EXTENT
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25. SADC ECONOMIC ACCOUNT FOR
WATER USE PROJECT WEBSITE & CD-ROM
› SADC Water use accounting project
2009 – 2010
› Funding from EU Water Facility & GIZ
› Re-package project results
› Easy to use website and CD-ROM
› Make documentation more accessible
for decision-makers and a broader
audience
› Central resource for SADC on EAW
› Hatfield Content Management System
HatCMS
› www.sadcwateraccounting.org
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26. SADC ECONOMIC ACCOUNT FOR WATER
USE PROJECT WEBSITE & CD-ROM
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27. SADC ECONOMIC ACCOUNT FOR WATER
USE PROJECT WEBSITE & CD-ROM
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28. SADC ECONOMIC ACCOUNT FOR WATER
USE PROJECT WEBSITE & CD-ROM
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29. SADC ECONOMIC ACCOUNT FOR WATER
USE PROJECT WEBSITE & CD-ROM
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30. SADC ECONOMIC ACCOUNT FOR WATER
USE PROJECT WEBSITE & CD-ROM
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31. SADC ECONOMIC ACCOUNT FOR WATER
USE PROJECT WEBSITE & CD-ROM
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32. RIVER AWARENESS KITS
• 2002/2003 – Mekong River Awareness Kit
• 2004-2006 – Nile River Awareness Kit
• 2007-2008 – Regional Aquatic Monitoring Program
• 2008-2009 – Orange-Senqu River Awareness Kit
• 2009 – 2011 – Limpopo and Kunene River
Awareness Kits
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33. WHAT IS A RIVER AWARENESS KIT?
• Central repository of information
for the Limpopo River basin
• Existing information, repackaged
• Website and CD ROM
• Text-based content
• Maps, graphics and diagrams
• Interactive media
• Google Earth application
• Documents
• Parallel languages
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34. APPROACH AND BENEFITS
• Approach
– User-driven
– Needs and Capacity Assessment and
Feedback
– Focus on self-learning
• Benefits
– Stakeholder involvement and ownership
– Raises awareness of transboundary
water issues
– Supports cooperation between basin
states and institutions
– Platform for capacity development,
enhancing the regional knowledge base
– Identify gaps in knowledge
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35. CONTENTS
• Developed through participatory approach
• River Basin – geography and physical
environment (98)
• People & the River – social, economic and
cultural aspects (40)
• Governance – governance context from
international to Limpopo (49)
• Resource Management – water demand,
infrastructure, valuation (54)
• Total 240+ pages
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36. OPPORTUNITIES FOR
SUPPORT TO NDMO?
• GIS and Remote Sensing services
– flood service, etc
• Satellite image acquisition
• Website development
• Information system development
• Google Maps/Earth services
• Report writing/review/editing
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37. CONTACT INFORMATION
SIMON HUGHES
DIRECTOR
HATFIELD CONSULTANTS AFRICA
+267 726 596 91
shughes@hatfieldgroup.com
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