ICIMOD
CONSULTATION WORKSHOP
Developing an Earth observation-based landslide monitoring and forecast system: Ongoing efforts and future perspectives in Nepal
6 August 2021 | Microsoft Teams
ICIMOD’s SERVIR-HKH Initiative, a joint initiative of USAID and NASA, is working on developing a landslide monitoring and forecast system to automate EO-based monitoring of landslides in the region with support from scientists and researchers at NASA. To this end, we are organizing a consultation workshop to bring together key stakeholders – government and non-government organizations, academic, scientists and international agencies working on monitoring and mitigation of landslides – to explore the feasibility of developing a landslide monitoring system within Nepal and quantify the needs of regional entities to develop systems to better address stakeholder decision-making, and planning for disaster response.
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Learn more about the event: https://servir.icimod.org/events/developing-an-earth-observation-based-landslide-monitoring-and-forecast-system-ongoing-efforts-and-future-perspectives-in-nepal
Learn more about SERVIR-HKH: https://servir.icimod.org
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Moderator: Sudan Bikash Maharjan, ICIMOD
Rapporteurs: Tenzing C. Sherpa and Poonam Tripathi, ICIMOD
Production team: Utsav Maden, Rays Rajbhandari and Rajesh Shrestha, ICIMOD
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0:00 Introduction – Sudan Bikash Maharjan, ICIMOD
3:34 Welcome remarks – Basanta Shrestha, Director – Strategic Cooperation, ICIMOD
10:18 Initiative background and introduction, objectives of workshop, past efforts, present needs – Birendra Bajracharya, Chief of Party –SERVIR-HKH, ICIMOD
16:43 Presentations on landslide studies in Nepal
17:09 The role of the Department of Mines and Geology in the field of landslides – Suchita Shrestha, Senior Divisional Geologist, Department of Mines and Geology (DMG), Government of Nepal (GoN)
30:16 NSET’s initiatives on landslide mapping, assessment, and management – Ramesh Guragain, Deputy Executive Director, National Society for Earthquake Technology – Nepal (NSET)
42:15 Understanding landslide risks in Nepal – Ananta MS Pradhan, Senior Divisional Engineering Geologist, Water Resource Research and Development Centre (WRRDC), GoN
52:39 Local partnership in transdisciplinary research and resilience building for landslide risk reduction in Nepal – Dharam Raj Uprety, Thematic Lead for Climate and Resilience, Practical Action Nepal
1:02:01 Understanding spatio-temporal variation of landslides for disaster risk reduction in the Nepal Himalayas – Basanta Raj Adhikari, Assistant Professor, Institute of Engineering (IoE), Tribhuvan University (TU)
1:09:30 Emerging technologies for landslide hazard and risk assessment – Dalia B. Kirschbaum, Chief of the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
1:27:26 Panel discussion (Moderator: Mir A. Matin, Theme leader, ICIMOD)
1:30:17 What are the requirements – use and purpose – for landslide monitoring and warning in the context of Nepal?
1:37:05 What are the technical challenges and gaps for landslide monitoring and warning in the context of Nepal?
1:44:30 What are the institutional challenges and recommendations?
1:51:09 How can we have better collaboration on the development and use of landslide monitoring and warning system in Nepal?
1:56:44 What are current practices and recommendations on landslide inventory and data collection?
2:04:17 Capacity building needs and recommendations for improvements
2:16:27 Way forward and closing – Birendra Bajracharya, ICIMOD
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