This document discusses the applications of geospatial systems and their importance in supporting green economic development. Geospatial technologies can be used to monitor biodiversity, assess natural resource use, and measure ecological footprints across various spatial and temporal scales. The convergence of remote sensing, GIS, modeling, and other geospatial tools allows issues to be analyzed and addressed in an integrated manner from local to global levels. Geospatial systems can locate resources, identify land use patterns, monitor environmental conditions over time, and assess impacts to support sustainable resource management and linkages between development and conservation.
The goal for pro-poor mitigation activity, is to develop a low-cost protocol to quantify greenhouse gas emissions and to identify mitigation options for smallholders at whole-farm and landscape levels. Learn more: www.ccafs.cgiar.org
Modelled and Analysed the watershed Dynamics in Mahanadi River Basin. Finally came up with watershed Management Plan to minimise the future LUCC in Mahanadi River Basin
The goal for pro-poor mitigation activity, is to develop a low-cost protocol to quantify greenhouse gas emissions and to identify mitigation options for smallholders at whole-farm and landscape levels. Learn more: www.ccafs.cgiar.org
Modelled and Analysed the watershed Dynamics in Mahanadi River Basin. Finally came up with watershed Management Plan to minimise the future LUCC in Mahanadi River Basin
EDF2013: Selected Talk: Michael Lutz: Data interoperability across sectors an...European Data Forum
Selected Talk by Michael Lutz, at the European Data Forum 2013, 10 April 2013 in Dublin, Ireland: Data interoperability across sectors and borders – INSPIRE and beyond
Landscape Game: a model to understand the dynamics of land competition, polic...CIFOR-ICRAF
Inspired by games like Monopoly, SimCity and Snakes and Ladders, CIFOR scientists designed the Landscape Game to help players experiment with the likely impacts of human actions in a landscape where competing land uses and policy dynamics interact. The game challenges players to maximise their revenues, while at the same time being mindful of ecological and social conditions indicated by factors such as landscape diversity, carbon sequestration and job creation. CIFOR researcher Rika Harini Irawati gave this presentation explaining the Landscape Game at the MODSIM International Congress on Model and Simulations held on 12–16 December 2011 in Perth. The conference took the theme ‘Sustaining Our Future: understanding and living with uncertainty’.
Presentation 10Apr2009 to conference "It Pays To Be Nice: Economic Models To Encourage Social & Environmental Responsibility, Center For Socially Responsible Business, Lokey Graduate School of Business, Mills College
Sasumua: linking a landscape and institutional mosaic to climate change in KenyaCIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by Meine van Noordwijk & Thomas Yatich, ICRAF
Landscape approaches to mitigation and adaptation, Forest Day 3
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Copenhagen, Denmark
Presentation by Dr. Meine van Noordwijk, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) at Forest Day 3, 13 December 2009, Copenhagen. Learning event "Landscape approaches to Adaptation and Mitigation"
EDF2013: Selected Talk: Michael Lutz: Data interoperability across sectors an...European Data Forum
Selected Talk by Michael Lutz, at the European Data Forum 2013, 10 April 2013 in Dublin, Ireland: Data interoperability across sectors and borders – INSPIRE and beyond
Landscape Game: a model to understand the dynamics of land competition, polic...CIFOR-ICRAF
Inspired by games like Monopoly, SimCity and Snakes and Ladders, CIFOR scientists designed the Landscape Game to help players experiment with the likely impacts of human actions in a landscape where competing land uses and policy dynamics interact. The game challenges players to maximise their revenues, while at the same time being mindful of ecological and social conditions indicated by factors such as landscape diversity, carbon sequestration and job creation. CIFOR researcher Rika Harini Irawati gave this presentation explaining the Landscape Game at the MODSIM International Congress on Model and Simulations held on 12–16 December 2011 in Perth. The conference took the theme ‘Sustaining Our Future: understanding and living with uncertainty’.
Presentation 10Apr2009 to conference "It Pays To Be Nice: Economic Models To Encourage Social & Environmental Responsibility, Center For Socially Responsible Business, Lokey Graduate School of Business, Mills College
Sasumua: linking a landscape and institutional mosaic to climate change in KenyaCIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by Meine van Noordwijk & Thomas Yatich, ICRAF
Landscape approaches to mitigation and adaptation, Forest Day 3
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Copenhagen, Denmark
Presentation by Dr. Meine van Noordwijk, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) at Forest Day 3, 13 December 2009, Copenhagen. Learning event "Landscape approaches to Adaptation and Mitigation"
FIGS workshop in Madrid, PGR Secure (9 to 13 January 2012)Dag Endresen
We organized last week (9 to 13 January 2012) a workshop in Madrid (Spain) on predictive characterization using the Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS) for wild relatives to the cultivated plants (crop wild relatives). This workshop was part of the EU funded PGR Secure project [1] (EU 7th framework programme). The objective of this workshop was to use predictive computer modeling with R [2] for data mining (trait mining) to identify genebank accessions and populations of crop wild relatives with a higher density of genetic variation for a target trait property (response, independent variable) using climate data and other environment data layers as the explanatory or independent multivariate variables. We have previously validated the FIGS approach for landraces of wheat and barley [3]. This study was one of the first attempts to validate the FIGS approach for other crops as well as for crop wild relatives (CWR). The crop landraces and crop wild relatives included in this study was: Oats (Avena sp.), Beet (Beta sp.), Cabbage and mustard (Brassica sp.), Medick including alfalfa, lucerne (Medicago sp.). We made good progress on the methodology, but also faced some major obstacles related to data availability.
Endresen, D.T.F. (2010). Predictive association between trait data and ecogeographic data for Nordic barley landraces. Crop Sci. 50(6):2418-2430. doi: 10.2135/cropsci2010.03.0174
Endresen, D.T.F., K. Street, M. Mackay, A. Bari, and E. De Pauw (2011). Predictive Association between Biotic Stress Traits and Eco-Geographic Data for Wheat and Barley Landraces. Crop Science 51 (5): 2036-2055. doi: 10.2135/cropsci2010.12.0717
Endresen, D.T.F. (2011). Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources: A Lifeboat to the Gene Pool [PhD Thesis]. Copenhagen University, Faculty for Life Sciences, Department of Agriculture and Ecology. Printed at Media-Tryck, Lund University Press, April 2011. Available at: http://goo.gl/pYa9x (PDF 37 MB). ISBN: 978-91-628-8268-6.
Bari, A., K. Street, M. Mackay, D.T.F. Endresen, E. De Pauw, and A. Amri (2012). Focused identification of germplasm strategy (FIGS) detects wheat stem rust resistance linked to environmental variables. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (in press). doi:10.1007/s10722-011-9775-5
Endresen, D.T.F., K. Street, M. Mackay, A. Bari, A. Amri, E. De Pauw, K. Nazari, and A. Yahyaoui (2012). Sources of Resistance to Stem Rust (Ug99) in Bread Wheat and Durum Wheat Identified Using Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS). Crop Science 52, in press. doi: 10.2135/cropsci2011.08.0427
Professor Andrew Lowe poses the question 'How can we help biodiversity adapt to the ravages of climate change?'. Andrew is the director of the Australian Centre of Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity at the University of Adelaide, to find out more about the Centre and its many research activities visit http://www.adelaide.edu.au/environment/acebb/.
The climate and earth sciences have recently undergone a rapid transformation from a data-poor
to a data-rich environment. In particular, massive amount of data about Earth and its
environment is now continuously being generated by a large number of Earth observing satellites
as well as physics-based earth system models running on large-scale computational platforms.
These massive and information-rich datasets offer huge potential for understanding how the
Earth's climate and ecosystem have been changing and how they are being impacted by humans’
actions. This talk will discuss various challenges involved in analyzing these massive data sets
as well as opportunities they present for both advancing machine learning as well as the science
of climate change in the context of monitoring the state of the tropical forests and surface water
on a global scale.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
1. Applications of Geospatial
Systems and Green Economy
MSR Murthy
MENRIS
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Kathmandu, Nepal
2. Geospatial Systems - Need
• Biodiversity decline (1970 and 2008) Spatial and Temporal Scales – Earth Processes
– 30 per cent globally
105
– 60 per cent in the tropics Floods
cyclone
Snows
• Demand on natural resources 104
Meteorology
rivers
Meteorology Ground
– Doubled since 1966 water O3 hole
Regional pollution
• Ecological footprint 103 air pollution/
Submergence
global warming
Nutrient cycles
– Equivalent of 1.5 planet Pollution - River migration
102 Sinks/sources, Land
• Footprint of High-income countries Oil slicks
Land
conversion
Conversion
Local (eg.mining)
– Five times greater than LIC. 10 Air pollution
• Areas of high biodiversity
– Provide important ecosystem services Days Months Years Decades
– 60% population lives
(Living Planet Report, 2012)
Issues are spatial in nature and require spatial tools and
spatial thinking with time as another dimension
3. Convergence of Geospatial
Technologies and Innovations
Breaking the traditional
barriers – organization, Remote
professional domain sensing /
and geographic borders Database
GIS / 3D
Redefining how we work Visualization
Internet
and share information
from local to global Geospatial
scales Solutions
Social
Building communities Media & Cloud
Crowd computing
and networks on
Sourcing
common issues Mobile
Devices
New opportunities for
collaboration
6. An Eye in the SKY
WHAT IS REMOTE SENSING ? INFORMATION?
CAN WE DO WITH THE
OBTAINING INFORMATIONAND MANAGEMENT OF EARTH’S NATURAL RESOURCES
PERIODIC MONITORING ABOUT AN OBJECT/SURFACE WITHOUT ACTUALLY BEING
DEVELOPMENTAL PLANNING
IN CONTACT WITH IT.
DISASTER MAPPING AND ASSESSMENT
ENVIRONMENT STUDIES
HOW IS THIS DONE?
DATA RECEPTION FROM REMOTE SENSING
SATELLITES
PRE-PROCESSING AND CORRECTION OF DATA
ANALYSIS AND INTREPRETATION OF THIS
DATA TO DERIVE USEFUL INFORMATION
7. Multi-resolution satellite datasets for
deriving information across the scales
AWiFS LISSIII QB-MS
QB-MS ZOOM
24M
QB-MS – Multispectral 4M
56M data of Quickbird satellite
Shown are the series of images using various
sensors in multispectral and panchromatic modes
8. Multi-resolution satellite datasets for
deriving information across the scales ~ 1 : 5000
PANCHROMATIC
data for the
b same window at
60 cm resolution
a
N
QB-PAN
a
b
Very high resolution imaging
for vegetation systems
9. Temporal Variations of NDVI – Crop
March 2004
January 2004
April 2004
February2003
December 2004
10. IKONOS PAN AND MS FUSED DATA SHOWING PLANTATION CROPS
IN PARTS OF INDIA.
OILPALM CASHEW
CASHEW
Rice
COCONUT
Rice
Facilitates assessment of Horticultural crops at cadastral levels
11. Geographic Information System
GIS enables
• Prepare data in a domain with
geographic coordinates
• Relate, model and analyse data
of multiple information
• Produce maps of different
information
• Linkage and port data into
Internet Web GIS
12. Devpl. projects
High Resolution Satellite Data for Initial Environment Assessment
PROPOSED HYDRO-POWER SITE - Duimukh, Arunachal Pradesh Forest
High
Dense Forest Medium
Dense Forest
HYDRO POWER SITE
EVALUATION
Agriculture
• Physical &
environmental Setting
of Hydro-power Site
• FRL Submergence Area
Analysis
• EIA Studies
• Infrastructural Planning
Settlements
• Rehabilitation &
Relocation Studies
IRS 1C PAN +LISS III merged satellite image of 6th November 2001 • Inputs for Ranking &
PFR Studies
13. Inter annual snow cover trends
in Bhutan using MODIS data
Average snow
cover area of
Bhutan(2002-2010)
: 9030 sq.km, 2.55
% of land area
SCA trend for
Bhutan for the
period was found
to decrease (- 3.27
%)
Decadal Trends in snow depletion
15. Land cover change
Forest Change Proneness Forest fire
Assessment - Methodology
Forest Change
Patch forest proneness map in Population density
20x20 Km grid
Perforated forest Climate variability
Core forest Settlement to forest dist.
19. ANOMALY (Z Score)
Monitoring ongoing Rice Crop Worst than normal
in Koshi Basin of Nepal Normal (stable)
Better than normal
Anomaly against 10 years average
11 July 2012 27 July 2012
12 August 2012
28 August 2012
21. Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally
performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined,
large group of people or community (a “crowd”), through an
open call.
27. Integrated Distributed GIS Resources
– Field Explorations
. . . GIS on the web
will provide many
additional
possibilities
Models
Maps
• Authoring
• Publishing
Metadata
web • Sharing
• Integrating
GeoData
Sets
Peer-to-Peer GIS
. . . Leveraging Geospatial Knowledge
Data Models
. . . Making Virtual Collaborations Possible
28. Geospatial technology
Application in Green Economy Sectors
S.NO Parameter Proven Potential
1 Forest Management 75%
2 Agriculture Management 75%
3 Water Management 75%
4 Urban and Green building 60%
5 Bioenergy 50%
6 Solar Manufacturing 25%
7 Wind Power 25%
8 Solid waste and recycling 10%
32. Asia Pacific Region
Fertile Challenge
Youth Revolution
Fertile
60% World
tropical
Youth
low carbon
200 M
economies
60% 3 M
Geospatial Mobile
Applications systems
33. Youth the bricks of future Asia Pacific region
thanks for kind attention
34. Geospatial Applications
• Forest carbon assessment and monitoring
• Target species monitoring
• Define wildlife areas or corridors for Conservation
• Efficient farming practices planning and monitoring
• Surface water modeling - Availability
• Urban planning applications - Optimal land use planning
• Best locations for renewable energy sites(Solar or wind)
• Best routing to reduce pollution or energy consumption.
• Dust and Cloud detection
• Eco tourism planning