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APRI Conference Training: ArcGIS and Water Resource Management

monica i think it's time for us to kick start the program uh we have 50 participants and i'm glad to see people from all over the world even china caribou [Music] as we say in east africa i'll let monica take it from here okay yeah so i'd like to share the screen people or you'll run it for me okay yeah so so welcome everybody and um this is the apri conference training or april conference tr uh workshop for the rig 2021 that is the rcmrd international conference and we are glad to have you join us from wherever you are joining us from all over the world and uh as easter extre eastern africa we are so glad to join uh rcmrd in this conference but for this session uh we will be doing a pre-conference april conference session so we are glad to welcome you and feel free to learn and interact in this session so um if you contact me the next slide please yeah so uh you are joining us from different backgrounds from different nationalities different disciplines and interests different organizations i know we have gis users but also we have a few teachers we have scientists from different sectors we have people working in government and also working in ngos world we have guys from different uh organizations from uh also other nationalities from uh the government section and also uh for from business as well we are welcoming you and we know that today we will study together to create a good community for all of us we thank you also for joining us today to form a global community of ds professionals and we are sure that you will be able to benefit from this session and you feel free to ask questions and type the stem on the chat section so the purpose of this okay we have different uh i have several team members joining with me today and number one is sydney youngesa with a solutions engineer representing the natural resources industry and i also have biko olali the industry manager at the utilities and telecoms industry and myself is monica manzier i'm the industry lead for water utilities at estrella africa so today we have a a small um okay we have sessions and this is our our program for the day so we'll start by welcoming you i welcome remark from s eastern africa by biko olale and then from there we will have kenya water towers which is one of our key customers showcasing on integrated monitoring and system for sustainable management of water towers in kenya from there next will be complete gis for water resources manager management by easter eastern africa and also we'll have another customer called podium east africa showcasing on enhancing postal and marine resilience and this will be from western india indian ocean and then we will also have a question and answer session whereby you'll be free to to ask and also to type whatever you feel you need to to know more or even feel free to interact and even give answers and now from there we'll have a closing remarks so um i welcome you once again and let's be take over from here thank you yeah thank you monica for that introduction i hope everyone is feeling warm wherever they are in the ruby it's quite chilly this afternoon so i hope you guys are paying attention and you'll be able to keep up with this exciting program that we have for you so without further ado um i'd just like to quickly get into the first part which will be mainly introducing you to the work we are doing as esri um and how we've been able to support um the global community of gis experts uh that we've seen um so the work that we've seen happening around the world it's quite extraordinary both in breadth and magnitude because we've seen people from all over the world addressing virtually every big issue that our world is facing from energy to environment to climate change to even modernizing cities um now that we have to keep up with with all the changes that are happening in our world um and i will showcase some of these examples um in the next flights in line with the theme of this conference in the environmental monitoring and assessment side we've seen a lot of work happening um from clients all over the world um if you look in the upper left we have people like the wilson biodiversity foundation mapping the biodiversity for the entire planet other users are working on even looking at the footprint of human beings like in canada and even monitoring things like sea ice now that we have global homing warming which is uh ever-present threat right now and even other applications around water quality modeling and even monitoring groundwater on the bottom right of the screen and if you look further into even the natural resources management which is also a very key speciality of esri time for the solution we're offering um we've seen lots of customers advancing and using gis to really solve some some of the problems and challenges that they're facing within that sector we have things like assessing suitable farming patterns in brazil for example in the top left in forestry we have seen this forestry organization modernizing we have the likes of kenya forest service who recently won the special achievement in js awards at esri who have really pioneered the solutions that they are adopting using gis we have applications as well within the land information side because all this ties down to how do we make our arts more sustainable how do we make sure that the solutions we are adopting help us achieve the sustainability that we want and we've seen some of our users using gis to manage land information land parcels and our solutions come with these capabilities inherently embedded in them in the water sector as well we've seen lots of innovation happening in the recent past and arcgis has really put a lot of research and development investment in in this sector because uh for water and water and wastewater management agencies around the world gis is now a key pillar for things like asset management where they're able to support service orders or manage expect inspections in ways that before were never thought possible with the real-time field to office workflows that are embedded within the arcgis platform and the examples on the left is looking at the analytics that you can be able to derive from the from the system where even to able to analyze where investments should be made within a certain water network or seo network uh because you're able to analyze from a special perspective and see exactly where in your network um you know based on the patterns and trends that you monitored um is really causing you know the most severe effects for for the organization in the area of disaster preparation and response um in line with the theme of of this rigs conference we've seen gis really um coming in strongly and it has had a long history in the field of disaster preparedness um where we've seen examples of how um it has modernized some of the workflows that they were there before there's an example here of congo where you're looking at ground deformation near a volcano but whether it's real-time fire assessments or doing assessments for flooding and severe weather gis is really playing a significant role right now around the world in in solving some of these challenges and helping communities respond and also adapt after the disaster happens in the area of imagery and remote sensing we've seen significant and it's it just is slowly intro treating and benefiting a lot of workflows in these areas from understanding forest inventory using satellite imagery um and also to back to the example i gave of even the kenya forest service here who and another examples of how you can visualize even vegetation health imagery is really coming in strongly um because of the power that the arcgis system is able to unlock within this uh particular sector um and there are lots of examples of this so these examples basically we're showing you because it's in line with the theme of this conference and our vision is essentially how do how does gis play a key role in creating a sustainable future because we've seen a lack of understanding of our reality because there's so many challenges that we're facing globally and also society is constantly facing and our future depends on how we're able to create and apply this common understanding right and with this complex and ever-changing challenges that are always evolving more is demanded from us um you know as experts in the various fields we we see that gis can help you even understand the world better for you to be able to respond accordingly and these challenges as i've mentioned they've they range from you know forest fires that we're seeing happening now we have the natural disasters pandemics we see the rapid growth of our cities and the effects of how that constrains some of our water sources and and other really key sources for for our survival of our communities so we're all collectively responsible for even things like ecological stability um and reducing pollution because we all suffer from these challenges as a global society so creating a sustainable future for us and as esri we see it as very possible because it dramatically requires a change of priorities to be able to understand how can we prioritize and apply some of the solutions we have to create this better future to create this you know more sustainable future how do we scale back you know consumption how do we restore some of the ecosystems that have been um you know corrupted or create sustainable agriculture all the other five themes of the rig conference are very much in line with what um gis and even esri as a company is focusing on which is just applying our best science our best technology and our best creative thinking um to solve some of these problems using a geospatial platform like arcgis so we see sustainability as requiring um geography because geography brings everything together you know it provides a common language you know a common approach for us to tackle some of these challenges and sustainable sustainability requires that we see the world as one single ecosystem and geography as we know is the science of our world it provides the science and the language to support these efforts it helps us organize and integrate all environmental factors like biodiversity and ecosystem services and integrate them with economic systems even you know to specially see these connections happening it allows us to integrate them with social factors you know which are a key contributor now that you have to factor in going forward and provides you with a framework for understanding and applying this knowledge so this geographic approach um that we call accessory is a way of thinking and problem solving that integrates geographic science information into how we understand and manage our planet it's a holistic approach it brings science together it's completely integrated uh and it supports and is enriched by the special understanding um that we're creating you know the whole concept of collaboration is at the heart of of what we are offering and what we see as the key enabler going forward and having this inclusivity gives us this great vision you know that this will impact virtually every sector of our society going forward and we've seen the approach of integrating as a powerful methodology because it has resulted to various new capabilities from geoanalytics um you know which is just deriving insight and understanding from uh all this data that we have to geo visualizations you know which is a language through maps and visualization for communicating um the content in the context of of you know whatever is your area of interest um this concept of geocollaboration we will be showing you what we offer as arcgis hubs which is enabling organizations to engage with with all their stakeholders we have concepts like jio accounting you know which is being able to account for all the factors you know setting up balanced measures that are not only financial driven you know but also considered other factors so these are all critical and the js community already is contributing to this work and you'll be seeing some examples like monica mentioned of kenya water towers and cordial east africa who are already doing this so clearly gis is enabling the geographic approach you know the very tools we use for measuring and visualizing and analyzing and even making predictions and planning and making decisions they're all based on on gis and js and the geographic approach provide this framework for applying this integrated geographic knowledge widely so you as gis professionals as i mentioned you're already doing this and creating many solutions for for what will be a sustainable future you know from protecting uh biodiversity to reducing the use of you know precious resources and managing and monitoring them whether it's even optimizing logistics and managing um sustainable agriculture and forests however we clearly we need to scale up these efforts exponentially if we're able to if you're going to be able to really keep up with what is happening around the world and the good thing is that the technology itself is keeping up with all these advancements and we see now gis being integrated and leveraging many of these other new innovations that we've seen around the world you know whether it's enterprise integration with other services uh on the left hand side we've seen you know lots of innovations happening there from incorporating big data or creating apps like i mentioned all these examples are really helping us scale up these efforts and js is no longer just a function of basic mapping where you have a simple desktop computer and and then all you do is produce paper maps you know by printing them right now it's create we've been able to innovate and create a geospatial infrastructure which is connecting and streamlining all the different workflows that were happening before you know within disconnected or you know siloed departments and creating this you know ecosystem where you would collaborate and have workflows that enable decision making so this geospatial infrastructure is really transforming organizations and creating a whole new kind of system like we'll see some examples of later on in this session and the portals the way they're organized they're able to now unlock the power of gs across the organization you know and like before where it was just for specific users or a specific department you know and creating these services for all it essentially enables organizations to really now be able to keep up with all these things that are rapidly changing around its ecosystem so as i finish gis is now becoming another system for sustainability you know with all the millions of data sets that are being published and you know being produced um they're now able to really understand what is happening and use the data to make decisions you know by creating solutions that solve one aspect or another and we'll be seeing examples of that um later on in this exam you know session and by delivering these powerful capabilities through simple applications like dashboards where you know you're able to see a complete uh picture of your organization or to have a complete situational awareness of specific tasks or specific projects that are happening on on a simple dashboard that gives a lot of power to the organization and the decision makers whether it's providing these capabilities within mobile applications for you know the field workers to be able to go and engage within the communities or you know collect data within you know certain areas this power is now being given anywhere on any device you know in almost any time right and it's just extending the power of gis you know for for the users and we've seen also advancements you know in the analytical side where we're trying to derive new insight and understanding from the data that has been visualized and here the capabilities are extended in arcgis using predictive models that you know are built into the system and you can be able to develop and extend uh whether it's looking at special temporal data sets or and analytics that come out of that and even incorporating real-time data from sensors we're now able to create new insights and understanding from the data that was originally there and in the area of imagery and remote sensing js has really enriched you know some of the workflows that were there before you know we now provide rich base maps um we have motion imagery capabilities and and even looking at uh artificial intelligence and machine learning applications and look at classification and and those types of analytics that come out of the imagery i spoke about hubs earlier and how they're engaging the different types of communities and the hub sites are literally here to provide you with a new way of forming this collaboration of extending the collaboration that you previously had whether it's within your organization or within your sector or with other organizations uh actress now offers a hub where you're able to organize you know the essentially simple websites where the community whether it's volunteers whether it's the professionals they want to look at the same data sets that you make publicly available and use that you know to inform the activities as i conclude our world as i said is big challenge in many fronts and we need to collectively you know respond for for us to have the sustainable future and the geographic approach that i mentioned and the infrastructure that we provide provides us the science and the practical means to act effectively to create a sustainable future your work is essential and we've seen that you know in various ways based on examples i showed earlier and right now i want us to see a very practical example of how we've been able to do that in east africa um through one of our key clients from kenya water towers represented here by caroline angeshi who's the senior research officer at the directorate of ecosystem research so caroline will be presenting to us what kenya water towers has been embarking on with support from various partners and they've really been able to now take their gis to the next level using portals using dashboards and should be walking us through how they've been able to achieve that caroline are you there yes i am hi let me uh first share just a moment uh okay hello everyone i am caroline wangashin viridi i'm from kenyawati tower's agency and a directorate known as ecosystem research planning and audits i work there as a senior research officer under the gis section my presentation is of course just under s3 and to and this is in line with how much and intensively we use their softwares and their solutions and products in support of our task at hand that said i will be presenting on integrated and monitoring systems for sustainable management of water towers in kenya so just to start off i'll start with explaining what water towers is it's an upland area which comprises of mountains hills and plateaus and whose topology morphology geography and type of soils and vegetation supports reception retention infiltration calculation and precipitation and access the storage for and access the underground recharger this water is then released to springs streams and rivers and swamps and leaks and oceans just excuse me for a moment it's okay then next we go to the model that just demonstrates uh what our tower is so we can stay from the top left we see where the head watches is where the recharge happens that is the precipitation the rainfall this nose in any other form of precipitation that flows down and percolates into the soils infiltrates and percolates to the cells and also we have surface runoff which flows to the lower lands where we have settlements agriculture and the urban sectors and all the way to the ocean so this list is a model of what's been termed as a water tower so kenya has has like a total of 88 water towers that you've identified as kenyatta towers agency um and with that we have five main water towers which is uh which comprise of um cherengani hills mount elgon mount kenya malforest complex and this supply 75 percent of the water source water surface resource that we use in the country we have 18 gazetted water towers which are the green dots that you can see on the map and further we have 70 water towers that we are proposing for gazette mint those are the red dots that you can see on the map so now with this water towers what has what is the importance we have they contribute a lot to our big4 agenda a big for agenda for kenya it's the blueprint for our uh excellency president uhuru kenyatta where he wants to support projects that are in line with four pillars which is a food security sorry food security health manufacturing and housing so as you can see most of our towers they support heavily in agriculture manufacturing um hydro power tourism um so you can see the heavy impressions that they have on this development project since they provide you resources for any form of project implementation um that said we know based to this one-to-one destruction based on the uncontrolled human activities these are the threats that you this water towers face like we have on the photos that you can see we have uh farming on steep slopes um which could lead to uh degradation soil erosion landslides and any other many other destructions and also you can see one aspect of clearing vegetation is the deep galley's in namanga which is an area here in kenya then also this is a very recent photo of the forest fires in our mount forest complex here in kenya further we can see these are unsustainable land practices which you can see this is a sloppy area and not enforced uses of increased agroforestry and use of terraces this also could lead to a lot of siltation solid erosion equally with the other the research we have that we know is invasion invasive species that are very aggressive and they compete a lot with their natural occurring ex indigenous vegetation also charcoal burning here in kenya is very pro uh a demand because that's our source of fuel the main source of fuel including firewood so what are the long impacts of these threats this destruction that humans cause one of them is deforestation i mean the certification also um declining in water quantity and quality also we have incidences of increased flows and increased um soil and wind erosion so all these are things that really affect the country and the world globally in the long run in many years to come um and uh so what is the the role of kenyatta as in management of these um important natural resources so kenyattas is mandated to coordinate and oversee and and uh oversee the protection rehabilitation conservation and sustainable management of these natural resources and i mean we have like six main such strategic objectives but in line with this presentation i'll just focus on three which is the water tower which focuses on just three which is our tower ecosystem health and relax resilience and uh also the acquisition of appropriate infrastructure to support sustainable management of volatiles that's where we have um entities like esri who really support this endeavor and also and we have the third that i am keen on is the establishment of strategic relationships and linkages for sustainable management of water towers so with this we know this is the thing that you need to have and with this we need to have information but we have a lot of information barriers why why do you have these information barriers one is that we have i mean what's are these information barriers so one is the inadequate information on the status so for us to do any form of restoration any work we have to understand where are we right now currently as a country as a globally as the world as a nation so also we have in kenya what you experience a lot is an uncoordinated approach like under the ministry of environment we have many entities doing a certain specific task in the environment in the ecosystem space but at times we are bitten coordinated then also we have the lack of interest centralized data platform where we can all have one centralized place where we can acquire all this information from because right now there are scattered different agencies and the time to have data protection uh policies that attempt to make it a bit a bit of a challenge also um there are no clear mechanisms to share this data so with existing attempts it becomes a challenge because first there's no protocol no way how to acquire some of this information and it becomes a bit difficult and time consuming also we're limited to the capacity that we have in kenya and i'm so sure so globally it's a it's a situation that you'll find in some other countries that you don't have the capacity to monitor this the status and the health of this racial challenge and finally we have this limited long-term monitoring program so you can change not only the immediate outputs but the long term impacts like 30 years 20 years from now so how do we use this um json remote sensing tools in kenyatta towers to help us in this maintenance and sustainable management and restoration of these washer towers that are really going through a ride of threats so with this i will also um i'll tie it in line with what we do as kenya washer towers but and how we use the gis and remote sensing so the first one of the things that you normally do is research and monitoring because like i've mentioned we need this information so with this research and monitoring that means we're acquiring new information to know what is the current status and with that we develop methods we develop our status report for each water tower so for this each water tower what is it that we do and acquire or um analyze under the status reports so in this system report one what we do we do the mapping of land cover and land strength so with this how do we go about it we use a satellite imagery and we use lasset landsat to use it because of the of the um temporal resolution that he has we also use because of its availability and it's it's shipped free literally sentence equally we use it for the current so that it can give us the current status of how the water tower is and we prefer it because it has a higher resolution that said we also do field work where we do ground truthing um exercises to know to actually do like an accuracy assessment of the desktop analysis that we do of the land cover actually using um random forest uh method of classification then including then what else we actually analyze under the status report is a critical sorry is the biodiversity hotspot but this is where now we work hand in hand with the national museum of kenya who heavily have the expertise to check out the to understand a better understanding of their flora and fauna over ecosystem so with this also this heavily includes the desktop analysis before going to the fieldwork through the preparation of the maps and uh which we use the actual software to do the analysis and the preparation of the maps then we go to the field where they collect information about all the plant species and animal insects and amphibians and reptiles so then after that also the status report involves the critical what we do what we call the critical catchment area and this is uh involves mapping out the rivers and springs and swamps so in this also initially we start with the we start with the downloading of the dm mostly from alaska website or using the asta dm so this um we we generate rivers using the hydrology tools in our map and further we go to the field and work and we do it's a jointed intercollaborated effort where we work with the water resource authority here that's an agency in kenya here and also the water resource users association which is a more ground down to the village person who uses the water and that's how they help us walk through the ground and use including the community members they help us walking to the springs and to the rivers where we collect information in terms of the salinity of the water the condition the degradation and uh we come back and we map it out then when we map it out we also have tabulated data in the stats saying the condition of the river system and the the critical catchment areas um further we do something what we call the mapping of degradation levels in water towers and this hanging hand we also use the dm the digital elevation model and the land cover map that we created the current land cover map that we created this we use um a tool in our command that is called water weighted overlay which we give different weights to let's say for us to have weight one which means it has low levels of degradation and uh cropland will give a weight of three also high areas high steep slopes to give them a high rate of three minutes we have it there's a high chance of degradation and with that you come up with a surface which you can see just from the screen it's on the center right and this the map on the right hand center so like you can see where it's a bit orange all that orange color that means it's a very high level of degradation um further what you do is the monitoring uh the creation of the we monitor the water tower stitches and we use the integrated um water tower monitoring system here we heavily have i've used that jazz platform where we publish using the address online on enterprise and uh we and which is uh pulled out for visualization for common users using our portal this information this last point i will talk a bit more later in the upcoming slides but that's what we use and that and actually it's our working progress but we have a prototype um further in the research and monitoring we have the we do our water towers planning and audit and with this we carry out um community resource assessment and this heavily uses gps mobile applications because this this gis mobile applications have what we call the questionnaires in a digital form it's simple and easy for the technicians to use and even for the local communities to use so this community resource assessment mostly is a social economic assessment where they ask um things about what livelihoods they use how do they depend on these water towers and to what extent so with that um we and the analysis we come back and we do helps inform what we call the ecosystem conservation plan because it's ecosystem conservation plan what it entails it has the proposed interventions let's say we've cut it's an it's a degraded area what do we do do we we rehabilitate the gullies we they're proposing interventions to be rehabilitate the gullies to do more planting of indigenous trees and with that it comes in line with the budget and who like you can see again on the top right you can see who's that that's the budget and the major stakeholders in kenya who are involved both government and government that said something also that we do we do the that heavily uses the gis and remote sensing is undertaking the total economic valuation of the water towers so with this um this gives the we've come to realize people need to have an understanding what value this watcher tells us because without attaching our value people don't see the importance like the water it gives has a value the medicine they give the food all this other value so when you monetize all these people see indeed there's a lot of value so with that we we do an analysis which is uh which is both social economic and biophysical so when i say social economic again that i mean we go asking for which is a questionnaire type perform using the mobile app applications and and they use these questionnaires and use it for um under house interviews key informants interviews and focus groups and do this the questions that they ask is what the number of what is the number of beneficiaries of these water towers and what how do we rank this ecosystem services did provisioning supported cultural or regulatory also further also further what we do we oh sorry for for the biophysical this entails for the total economic valuation this entails the of the the use of um measuring the value of plants the trees the plant crops that they're there the fruit trees the any form of crops that they use and um indigenous and even exotic and at the same time they measure their soil minerals and also do above ground and below ground carbon assessment um and so anyway further what we do also since we do rehabilitate the areas in conjunction with other agencies we also audit three seedlings in rehabilitated sites and also this is informed by doing a lot of mapping and using the gis application mobile apps to collect this information and create maps and statistical analysis and have annotation and uh and the conclusion of what is happening in the state of the water towers so on the stage of the rehabilitated trees are they doing well they have they died do we need to go back and replant and what is the cause of them not surviving so in lessons learned so then further we do we are actually in the process of um developing a payment a pes which is a payment ecosystem service this is how do how do the communities benefit from this from sustaining and managing and having and conserving and protecting these water towers so with that the many forms of it and also involves a lot of social economic um surveys and we also use that heavily the gps mobile applications uh further what we do we protect and do surveillance of the water towers and the good um exercise that we do as kenyatta towers is the mao joint mao is our forest one of our major water towers here in kenya so the mao forest joined the mao joint forest and first the mao joint enforcement uh which is a collaborative um component where we have kws rangers county uh rangers kfs and other entity that is under the minister of environment and they help a lot collect information and we want to push it further to be near real time but currently they have gps where they collect information in cases of forest fire in case they find somewhere people actually cutting trees all this information is collected and sent to the headquarters and we process it as maps in the graphs and in forms of narration analysis also we have embarked in uh boundary demarcation and fencing especially in mao it's one of our startups and uh and you can see just off uh on the right hand side the map the red line the red line that showcases um our first uh that's the 30 kilometer fencing and we've already it's already in progress and hopefully in future we'll actually get to map yeah so this is the mall forest where i'm actually showing you where there's a lot of the pink is a lot of cropland all this used to be forest and now people who actually it was actually reclaimed so now that's why they're for us and um that's why we are actually fencing and a lot of rehabilitation is in process as you can see from the left the rehabilitation they like the orange line that's um kefri who is the kenya forest research institute here in kenya they were given the to be the task lead um to do in 2019 to do the aerial serving as part of using innovative measures to rehabilitate that's more effective and fast but that was their pilot the first pilot so i had to see the results all the other shades it's different entities that i've taken in and again what you can see with the subdivision this is again a process that you did before rehabilitation process began we subdivided the whole entire area into blocks of over 100 hectares which will help in management and that relocation and also in monitoring so with this yeah this any person who can can adopt a block and they make sure they rehabilitate and in this exercise kenyatta was lead but we were working hand in hand with yeah the point again all this is the coordinated coordinating and integrative approach that we are enforcing since we are more of a coordinating end overseeing agency so father we also do the water we have water towers rehabilitation which you can see we do tree planting um spring protection gully rehabilitation and with this all we do at the same we do mapping of springs like i told you earlier we also equally do mapping of the galleys and from there they come up with interventions and proposed interventions with a specialist on what to do and how to rehabilitate and how to monitor further so that said we have collected all this information as kenyatta towers also we have other entities cafes carefree confessing the kenya forest service they're they're ones who manage the most in conserving and protecting our forest so we have all this information from different agencies and also from the ngos and we want to bring them all together so that we can have one cool integrated system where we can have all this information that can we can inform an evidenced based decision making process in terms of restoration in managing so that's why kenyatta cells came up with an integrated water towers management system so with this as you can see just from the from the model picture here like as i mentioned earlier we use heavily a lot of satellite data the dms and the in the landsats and the sentinels to do a lot of analysis land cover and hydrology and degradation further we do a lot of field work that you see we use the gps's and they equally have mobile application forms that some are esri and to help in analyzing and collecting information which you can come back and analyze equally down on the down patch you can see we have stakeholders we are tapping into the stakeholder service and here we have we have a data protocol well for those who are on board they've given us like a permission to what degree are they giving us raw data are they giving us um already processed data and to what degree can we share and give access to but with that we have a data protocol and where we can access and they're all processed and uh and they're pulled into the canal tutorial server and uh with that we have a i can see a cloud platform because we also have to relate the data collected from the field and also some that we have to pull that are mining that are not within our system like the from global forest watch and other entities and then with that we have a content management system that pulls in that data and organizes it in a format that is uh meant to uh in a format that is now projected visually to the common end users and this is a web-based portal which i will show further on how it operates usually it mostly has maps that like you can see and it has a dashboard mostly comprises of charts and and pie charts so why why did we see the need of this like i'm so sure kind of i kind of mentioned some of them when i was going through like one that we need we need to the system provides an updated accurate and comprehensive reliable scientific data that will inform decision makers in any other person involved in water towers restoration and sustainable management further we the development of data protocols that didn't exist because we have all these different data scatter the different agencies and organizations but but we don't but we don't have a way to share so that was part of why our time water towers monitoring system was very paramount and also to ensure comprehensive and consistent uh monitoring of these key elements of the natural resource management and further also to provide which i've mentioned a long term way of measuring the impacts of these projects that we implement if you have really if you did rehabilitate plant or rehabilitate a galley was there an impact was your project successful did you see the impact and music for it in the long run to the the direct community people living around and even for the people who are further living downstream so that said the process of making this until this system entails um 18 institutes and like i've emphasized our approach is to coordinate and oversee and to enforce integration and coordination so that's why we needed to we went through with our multi-stakeholder um different approach and we had 18 institutions both government and then government the technical lead and financial was the world resource institute all these entities that you can see mostly government and kenyan and the rest are endured so the process that was created in creating this system was like a first mention is creating of the technical working group which has um which has sorry 18 the 18 members the 18 members from different representatives from different institutions and this technical working group they had homework and they reviewed the best practices because technically we're not the first to do this the people who've done it like example global forest watch under wra wri and and so they went aboard and they did their own research and reviewed what was best and how we can improve what we can implement and improve and further this this entails now making of their monitoring framework the monitoring framework what it has is the objective the goals the key goals which has three key goals and uh with these goals how do you measure so that's the identification of the indicators and the metrics so the monitoring framework um informs and guides the monitoring system so the what and the what to measure and how to measure that's what the monitoring framework says so after they they developed a monitoring framework the monitoring framework was actually validated and further now came to stage two which is implementation of the monitoring system here the double arrived in the technical world research institute being the technical lead in financial uh we had a consultant coming board come on board and they helped us develop their content management system which used the java and html programming language and that was the back end um that was now processing all the information that is coming from the just partial data which is processed from all the um arcgis um enterprises all that jazz platforms from akmap to either online or enterprise then also from all this data coming from other agencies in form of dashboards presented out now to the portal using the the chats and the graphs yes the chats and the graphs so that said now they had to review the next step was to review this system and actually integrate the data and the data that integrated those from true water towers from three water towers in kenya so one is the eastern mao uh water tower which is part of a forest blocking our mao forest um the main one of the main one of our main five water towers which is the mao forest complex then the second was their makkulen zowie water tower which is in a county called nakhmani here in kenya and the last was the chorangani hills which traverses uh four counties in kenya so that was their data integration that was used for the for their first prototype then they reviewed the prototype and tested it they now come to stage three they went to stakeholders validation where all these 18 institutions that were involved took part also they went to the ground to different counties and involved different stakeholders and also the community down to the ground of the community to for them to validate this system and approve it and now we're at stage four where we need now to present it to the big policy makers and we're still working on that then now the final strategies to implement the system so like i've said now the but like what i've said initially was the the monitoring framework is more of a document that has a lot it guides and informs there the water tower monitoring system so all it's just a document having stating the goals setting the indicators and metrics and the criteria so this is now what is is implemented into the water tower into the water tower monitoring system the this is just the front the user graphic front but as you can see it's a whole system with servers and data collection and satellites and also information from other institutions but this all information now it's just um projected and visualized in this uh in this monitoring in this portal which we call the kenya water towers watch um so like i've mentioned we had for in the creation of this water tower monitoring system we identified three goals which you can see is improved productivity and this focuses on the provisioning services so yeah the food the water the medicine then also we have the improved conservation of the ecosystem so how are we going to improve the soil quality the water quality increase of biodiversity the air quality and now again what i've really emphasized their integration so with this we need them nibbling policies institutional arrangements to help facilitate this um coordinated approach and uh like you've heard most of the indicators i'm talking about the things that this monitoring system monitors or will help monitor these are a few like we have the water quantity what we check and what can be measured is the ground water levels the rainfall amount so in the long run like 30 years from now we want if you are doing a good job our water quantity our rainfall will increase when you go to number two at food food yield production yes we are hoping we'll have a better year because now we'll be doing sustainable farming practices so this is uh what our [Music] our integrated monitoring system looks like so what i showed you earlier was the home page then you have a tab of maps and you also have a tab of the dashboard so when you click on the three on one of the three it will actually go through to the bottom but when you look at one of the three areas that we've assessed these are the things that you see like we have the um on the left side we have the layers and they can show you what layers you can see you can see the upper layers the tower layers you can have the land cover the climate information and further this is this is what you can see like for this thematic map here this is the population density that you actually mined from kenya national bureau statistics and this is from kenya water towers land cover change analysis between 1990 and 2016. the green shows what has remained in tucked as forest the red shows what we've really destroyed to accommodate farming or settlements so maybe i can click to the link just to hopefully then my net where i am my internet is working it's fast enough because it has a lot of heavy graphics anyway as it opens let me just continue then father i told you we have maps and dashboards so this is what you expect once you click once you go to the to the to the to the portal so you see it will give information like one of the good information that you give is the tree cover loss and carbon emissions and this is all projected as graphs and this will source out from um mined from the global forest watch further we have these uh their sensor statistics from kenya national bureau of statistics here in kenya and this is like the number of households in eastern water tower and you can see the number of households like this is a location in um in massama calling jordan we have like roughly 12 000 number of households um also what it also shows heavily is the land cover composition and the trends and from the trends this land cover trends are actually something we've processed as an agency and here you can see the orange is the cropland and the green is the forest and you can see they have an interchangeable shape pattern meaning they're inversely proportional meaning when the forest was being cut to accommodate family so um sorry i will take you through the portal but since my internet is a bit slow let's just finish the presentation then now the key lessons from everything that we've learned from trying to implement this so one we've realized this need for goodwill among institutions providing this data and that's why we need hence the emphasis of the integrated approach and also we've realized we need to develop better algorithms to mine data from different um sources that already existing to also save on cost and money there's no need of us to replicate and that's why we need a centralized centralized place of accessing data to also avoid duplication and save us a lot of costs in this endeavors of restoration then also we need uh realize we need skilled personnel on data science and system development because some of these systems really and that's why now where um entities like esri really have come and have really been helpful because also like i've mentioned we really want to upskill and go to the regions and have near real-time data collection um further um yes again we need better mobile applications where we can do crowdsourcing which again now we same thing we don't need to keep um going ourselves to collect the state and some of it already exists or someone can already relate this information based on how we present it then also we need the data sharing guidelines protocols which we have but i know it's still a work in progress and also we've realized we need a win-win strategy for a successful implementation of our integrated returning towers water towers monitoring system so as i have said they're still in the prototype and hopefully we get to get this to win-win strategy so um uh just uh a moment and to go to our portal right so hopefully and i'm sorry in case my internet is not good but uh this is how the bottle looks like we have okay we have about which is gives an explanation of what kenyatta towers is and our partners so our partners we have carefully healthcare fest kenya forest service so um can your wildlife service all these are the 18 members that were part and parcel of the implementation of the technical working group so yeah you can see these are the people that we heavily used because we really need to have a coordinated approach my father um it gives a background of what kenya water tower is all about and this platform is all about and what we need to be doing and measuring in the long run so that we can have a better approach in monitoring our long-term efforts in this sustainable management and restoration of water towers um further we have now what we have the critical goals uh which i mentioned the water tower emphasized on just a moment anyway so our i've mentioned earlier so the concept the one of the critical goals that you need to look for is the conservation the production and the governance it's something i've already said in my presentation so uh with the con production is in line with the provisioning services the governance is in line with these institutions and the coordinated approach and having better policies in managing inclusive of the data protocols the conservation is what i've said now how what are we going to improve how our efforts are they're going to improve their water quality their biodiversity um and that said uh let me go to the maps so this is how the maps this is uh the three areas that i said we are going to analyze which is making zoe cherengani and eastern that we used for the prototype the three areas all these are in kenya in different counties so this is the charangani um water towers and um like you can see once you click on it the first tab is an information telling you uh this map shows you the overview of the children gangnam watch hotels then we have the layers now these are the the special data sets and uh one of which is the tree the land cover dynamics which has all these um attributes that you can display and they heavily mined from the global forest watch further we have the overlays and these ones also come heavily from different institutions like the county boundaries come from kenya national bureau of statistics the river some of them we generate as canada towers through the process i told you and also from water resource authority here in kenya national parks this information we get from kenya wildlife forest and all this is information that you can see and uh play with and like let me try i don't know if it's been overlaid just a moment the other thing that i forgot to tell you um the portal is actually very interactive you can zoom in zoom out just like i've done just to see where it is in relation to kenya and other countries the surrounding countries in east africa uh so with that you can see i've activated the county's boundary and yeah like you can see when i select it can uh anyway so you can see yeah when i select gives you here the information of what county and you can see chirangani falls under westpocot county yeah so you'll forgive me a bit my internet is low so i may be talking too fast for my slow internet but i'll try i'll try and slow me down uh so that said let me go back to the layers what else that we can see is the the land cover actually the water towers layers when you see the water towers this earlier have actually generated so these are the sub basins and obviously i think you can when you move the tab towards on my left side i'm so sure you can see the casa so towards on my left side these are tabs that you can make them uh visible when you move to the left you make them not visible they're not visible and when you move all the way to the right they activate them so the springs i'm so sure we had some few springs on the lower side just a moment the blue dots like i mentioned we usually go to the field and these are uh actual points that the technical team focus towers walked to and collected information of this using the gps and our questionnaire where you're feeling information about it if the water is sidelined does it have an order is it brown is it is the area is the catchment um well conserved or not is it fenced what are the the interventions that you propose do you need it to be to plant more trees bamboo do you need to fence you need to put an intake for the communities to use to avoid contaminating around the the springs so when you go here to the springs to make to deactivate them the blue dots you can see that is clearly evidence that that tub works uh then so with other layers i will not go through all of them but i'm just going to show you some of them like this land cover actually also have been david heavily borrowed from mind from the global forest watch so you can see the intact forest you can see the primary forest you can see the above ground land cover based on the global forest watch and the tree cover so all this is information that you can see and further you can this tab once you click on something it can give you let me try and actually click on a spring i don't know if you'll come just a moment let me adapt a little bit okay so anyway it's not it's taking time maybe because of my internet in a further you can actually do analysis your small analysis you have an extra tab and on that you can select what kind of analysis that you want to do maybe be maybe say land cover composition it can allow you can select a smaller area using this tab on your right hand side and actually you start drawing and you select an area let me just try now sorry uh things are acting up i think it's my next but yeah but you get the hand of it just based on a small area you don't have to have all the statistics of the whole entire water tower you can just say you want to analyze this area and it will give you a tabulated graph result of whatever you're trying out of all those attributes that you're trying to analyze um then we can further go to the dashboards which equally we just had three water tasks but we hope in the future to build so we have the you can try the chirangani dashboards since that's the one we've been looking at so the this is everything that i was just saying you can see just based on this it allows you to have to analyze the annual tree cover loss of cherengani equally it can give you the carbon emissions or from tree lost cover in this change water towers further it can give you the water towers population statistics the sensors which we also have the population density including the number of households further also it showcases the land cover composition the quantities and also the graphical representation so that you can see the pattern and trends so that said i think that's all that i can present right now since my net is not behaving but if it gets better maybe we can get back to it biko thank you for listening thank you thank you so much caroline i believe everyone really enjoyed that can see from the chat we've gotten a lot of feedback um before i go through the questions uh i just like to remind our audience that caroline you know is a senior specialist with over 10 years of experience in this field so we're very lucky to have you taking us through this session um and i can see a lot of people in the chats are thanking you for the great invitation but we have one question uh before i let you go from mary um mary is saying thank you for the presentation are there any transboundary water towers if so how are you coordinating with other countries as you implement the activities and what sort of arrangements or agreements are in place and who funds that that's okay okay uh yes we do like one of them is uh part of it is actually manjaro because most of the waters it's in tanzania which is our neighboring country uh in the south and uh yeah that's a challenge and also we have uh mount elgon which we share a lot with uganda so mostly what we tried was to avoid the politics of it we try and manage from our side most most of the time but if there's need we have to go through the whole protocol which involves the policy makers and that's how we have to do a very formal way approach of it and most of the time most of our funding we do is government but heavily like you can see this one was funded by wild resource institutes so yeah so mostly it's it's it's government plus any person who's willing and most of the times we try and um also sell proposals for people to come and help us because we're also trying it's collaborative because remember even when we're doing this we have to work with because if it's remember if it's a mount elgin montel gonna have the national park at the top of the moonland then at the words at the slopes of that we have akfs you see now i'm telling you we always have a disjointed approach because we have all these people but now then we have people the same ecosystem but we have kws then we have so we also try what and that's how we come with this management plan hoping that we'll all work together because i know different entities organizations have different budgets so but when we come with one management plan it will help us always have this coordinated approach and we always try and involve them even when we go we use the county we use the chiefs we use anyone who's involved member kev that's but in terms of funding uh i can't really circle it at times it's government at times it's non-government okay yeah i think mary i hope she's answered but she's also asking if you can is the link publicly available um can we access it yet no not yet for now because for now for now because it needs to be officiated by the policymakers the cs and yeah but yeah but the members who are they're 18 then since they're part of it they can use it and access it but we we soon actually it's because of kovid it has delayed a lot of things but we really there was that there's meant to be a launch and once the launch is there it's accessible on our website and other and all our partners we wish you all the best i hope that launch you'll invite some of the people who've attended here to also celebrate with you one last question before i let you go caroline we have a question from tata taveta university uh nahashon uh who's one of our ambassadors nation pleasure to have you here he's asking since the tree type is important in terms of ecology conservation and carbon sequestration do you um have a way of discreet discriminating the tree cover types from the remote sensing technology i hope that made sense uh yes but not very accurate so far so far we've used just the traditional um land cover assessment using random forest which is a bit more advanced to the traditional so at least we try we try we do like the times we've tried and picked pine cypress in our forest and captain gut it's not very accurate but we try and also we try and differentiate from the indigenous but it's not too accurate but what we want to try is go through the use of lidar system lidar system at least you can do individual tree mapping so maybe it will give a a better way of an additional added value to separating and analyzing trees yeah but we've tried it works but it's not a hundred percent better than nothing right yes it's better than nothing at least it helps with having an idea of what is there yeah thank you thank you caroline i think we've all enjoyed and learnt a lot from your session um i know the audience is clapping wherever they are stick around i know there'll be more questions on the chat monika is taking note of that but we thank you for giving us this time caroline thank you for the kind words i love you all right um so let's switch things up going back to our presentation we have a technical session now from asrista in africa i'll be introducing you to a few concepts i know through the presentation that caroline offered you're hearing different components of our system uh but i'd just like to make sure that we're all on the same page and really bring you up to speed with what esri is doing and how we are creating and you know continuously improving on the technology that is helping serve our users from both the products um to even the education part of things in line with our vision um that i spoke about um in in the first session so um as esri we have focused on this comprehensive geospatial platform that supports multiple computing communities uh kenya water towers are showcased how they're able to do to do that and it's not just for the js community um but also the mapping and location services as well as the location analytics communities uh these two form a key part of the data that is now being supported within our ecosystem and arcgis also supports geoenabled systems um these are specialized products that use components of js technology for forecast for more focused workflows and all of this is done in an open and developer friendly environment with software as a service and even installable software and most recently we've now launched a new platform as a service for the developer community and arcgis supports three fundamental systems um we call them fundamental systems because essentially this is what is at the heart of the geospatial infrastructure that i introduced to introduce you to earlier on in the session uh where we have a system of records which keeps all the transactional data and a system of insight which now is able to really unlock the new understanding and the new insights that you can unlock from from from the data and we deliver it through systems of engagement through applications and mobs that connect people to the organization's work and help them communicate and share that information and we've seen that arcgis is an integrated system that brings many components together and has been engineered to work as a single system supporting many kinds of applications and and people a good example we've seen is now the kenya water towers watch and we're looking at another system later on in the program another technology it is what is enabling and fueling this just partial infrastructure pattern access as the users of arcgis have really leveraged these capabilities that it offer and now with cloud deployments that capability is now fully scalable depending on the cloud you know provider that it is installed on um they are extending their system and strengthening their capabilities by deploying in the cloud like access enterprise but also leveraging the software the service resources from the cloud like content and analytics and even imagery which will really touch upon when we go to the next sections and what esri has done is to ensure that access remains open and interoperable we support and leverage multiple initiatives to make this happen you know such as the standards that have been set in place from ogc uh iso and others arcgis is really designed as an open architecture with open apis and open data so that it can help our users integrate their systems into a broader frame of the other i.t systems that they may uh be having in place and in the sector for water we've really seen now access playing a huge role to enabling what we call the intelligent water system which is now able to support the gis all the way from the source of water um at the top left you know to how the water is produced and treated you know how the storm water is also collected all these networks are now able to be modeled within arcgis you know and this really provides communities with a new way of really understanding uh you know how to manage their water resources better and not only that we have constantly been improving and advancing the arcgis capabilities with lots of new innovations and specialized applications um that we'll cover in the next few slides first and foremost it's all about data um you know the content that actually has provide is is always updated and adjust content is an integral part of the system uh because it's ready to use you know meaning when you get arcgis you're not starting on a blank page you already have data sets that you can be able to now plug in and overlay with the data that you may have to really understand the the context of what it is that you're looking at you know we have thousands of layers including base maps and imagery and more um you know that cover they are the content is publicly available um you know and it's from public sources and it's curated by our srsp experts that made very available so that you can access integrate into your own work and this list on the right here shows some of the new initiatives that we've been working on you know with the different agencies like ngta we have demographics data globally that are now being updated that you may find useful and apply for your own work what i'm really excited about is the new high-resolution global land cover that was recently announced by esri um you know one part this content is is a particular interest because this high resolution global cover data set is provided by sentinel 2 satellites you know and is a consistent map of land cover of the entire globe based on the most current satellite information and i know some of you might might see this useful for your areas you know specialization but this now open data is available to you as services or as downloads and we've built this map over the past several years in cooperation with the national geographic society and the likes of microsoft and other partners as well in the area of desktop mapping which you know some called traditional gis we've been able to pioneer the next level of desktop um software called arcgis pro which now is at the heart of of our of our solutions and we certainly achieved you know the parity that was there with akmop you know which a lot more people are familiar with and we introduced new tools for advancing um cryptographic science and we've also made enhancements um you know based on the requests that we've gotten from our users and you know some of the performance capabilities that they have [Music] been requesting for all this has been you know upgraded in in the new offerings of arcgis pro that you know you may find very useful for for some of your work and not only that we've even pioneered and really gone ahead to invest in the areas of interactive web mapping um where we made lots of improvements um the example in the upper left is illustrates you know this concept with data-driven exploration of maps right where now you're really able to see more from a map than before and this dynamically it just shifts completely how you're able to explore patterns from a map you know and this idea of interactive environment really brings home some of the areas of interest that you might be looking at when you're doing your analysis or some of the work that you may be doing there's instant apps also um have been introduced um within the arcgis system because they quickly transform any 2d or 3d map into an application that provides your audience with an intuitive experience to interact with your maps and data so you know this is a new way of delivering you know some of the maps that you are delivering but now you improve upon them and even uh enables your users to have 3d understanding and we currently support you know more than a dozen of these applications with more coming and these are configurable configurable apps that all you do is customize towards meeting your specific needs dashboards have become almost an essential element of any gis most organizations right now are seeing them you know providing dynamic and real-time visual reporting about virtually any subject and dashboards have been embraced by our users to be able to provide at a glance information um like you know you saw from kenya water towers and we're working on adding you know more functionalities to the dashboards you know to include things like tables and the ability to natively implement that on even mobile devices and and have that you know really you know scale um as organization skills and data sets as well so this means that people will be able to look at their favorite dashboards anywhere anytime and on any device another powerful tool that the arcgis system offers is story mobs you know which changes how you're able to you know tell stories or reports or you know just publish your data to your communities and it continues to be very popular within our community and the opening up geographic storytelling for everyone else you know everybody has a story and more and more people are telling their stories story mops has really shown uh why maps are important you know to give real context to you know whatever topic they're covering um and there's a new introduction of a user type on arcgis just for storytelling and this user type has opened up the storytelling in an affordable way to entire enterprises and we're going to continue on that journey of making this more available and easier to be used by everyone and uh when we look at our work in the interactive visual analytics and how we've been able to capture this and deliver it through a product we call arcgis insights it's very easy to learn and this tool completely changes um how you think about business intelligence or bi because it allows for people to access lots of different data around the organization and perform exploratory exploratory visual analytics and generate interactive reports these tools are rapidly expanding and empowering special and business analytics within organizations and and this also extends towards data science and spatial analysis arcgis right now is delivering these capabilities because it's at the heart of soul of what most gis professionals do they're about solving problems and advancing science and and this year we've even added new tools and improved the existing ones and on the right it shows some of the recent improvements that you can see within the platform and also explore some of the new tools for artificial intelligence and machine learning um are really now you know being delivered in a way that's very easy for for our users to to unlock that capability when you look at imagery and report sensing as well um the innovations there now have been able to allow you know for arcgis to provide the key capabilities um to enable complete work for workflows for gaining insights from imagery you know the management of the content to make it accessible imagery mapping you know is turning js ready products and analyzing them to extract information and visualize that information in ways that now have become even easier than before right the the list that you can look at on each of these sections uh represent some of the work that can be done you know in support of these capabilities and next i'll be talking about image hosting which means that we can now load our imagery onto arcgis online and even host it in a software as a service environment image hosting and analytics in the cloud now means that uh you can upload your own imagery into access online and perform rasta analytics or image processing in in arcgis online and solve it out as image or visualization services that you can integrate directly into the work that you're doing this enables massive massive you know image processing capabilities and rust analytics in the cloud and you'll see that now organizations are able to embrace you know and enable this massive image process i hope you can hear me yes we can sorry for that introduction can you confirm if you can see my screen yes we can okay um i was talking about drone mapping uh which is another dimension of what ezra is doing with the imagery and we support two fundamental technologies which is sidescan which is the cloud offering and drink map which is on the desktop and these technologies are now simplifying workflows to process you know drone imagery and and support you know planning and managing and collecting imagery and then processing it so this is what we're beginning to call reality capture within the arcgis system next i wanted to touch on uh the real-time capabilities that arcgis offers and this is a new dimension of the work that we're doing and it's integrated visualization and analytics into arcgis you know it's ability um and this is now delivered directly into rts and we have two solutions for that you know first one being g event and another one most recent called velocity which is delivered through access online um and all this data is ingested and visualized in real time and you would now create dynamic applications um you know that support various you know kind of solutions that the organization might want to be you know innovating for many of you you know data management and editing uh forms a key part of the work that you're doing here our activities include continuing to advance the tools workflows and data models and to integrate them with all the leading data management technologies whether it's in the cloud or on-premise you know looking towards the future we'll be integrating arcgis with the cloud data warehouses to enrich and do you know things like big data analysis and other types of operations so we're continuing to support you know and advance industry data models we have one for utilities which is called the utility network model um that has simplifies a lot to the work for electric and communications and water and gas companies and we've seen some of those monitors being adopted within the region and these improvements also go to even towards the databases you know where we've seen improvements in performance in the attribute roads and all this is geared towards improving the workflows you know for our users and advancing the tools that we offer them in the area of um field operations and data collection uh caroline touched on a bit on how they're able to you know utilize some of our field applications and access really provides a full suite of field applications that innovation that introduced last year was the actual field map field maps application that brought together the capabilities of many of the individual products that we used to have before that some of you might be familiar with but now puts it in one application for collecting data updating data in the fields tracking mobile workers and being able to access service-based uh visualizations so this really gives you an operational awareness for people uh who are supporting even the co-workers in the field and and really unlocks a lot of efficiency and productivity for for the organization and lastly uh one of our recent developments like i mentioned was delivering arcgis through a platform as a service uh where we have the access platform you know and this was released earlier this year and it's delivered as platform as a service for the developer community for them to really access ezra's location services using their apis of choice um including open source apis and it allows developers to create applications and extend the capabilities of arcgis you know through apis and sdks um but it's also consumption based so they only pay for what they use in terms of the services uh so arcgis platform is really geared towards you know embedding this location services into enterprise systems so right now i'd like to invite sydney guess who's been supporting a lot of our customers in this industry to unlock the power of arcgis so cd will be showing us a brief example of how one of our web application works in helping us analyze floods within this sector sydney you can take over thank you biko thank you for that uh nice presentation my name is sydnis simeo and i support esri in the natural resource sector and i'm going to show you uh how arcgis as a system has come in a strong way to actually try and uh map map out the development challenges and provide also solutions towards achieving a better world so um reflecting on let me just share my screen i hope that's visible so uh reflecting on uh on our theme which is uh reflecting on resilience specifically on how to map uh development challenges and also solutions for a better world esri as ah as a has come in a strong way uh to actually promote mapping that promotes that actually uh improves understanding of where where actually uh what is where uh how much is uh involved and what is at stake in actually making it possible to unlock uh information about any changes in the system and uh possible impact scenarios brought about this system changes so for my demonstration i'm actually going to show you the solutions that uh esri uh has come up with to actually enable uh uh solve the solutions that solve the problems that are impact uh caused by by floods uh one of the one of the key elements of uh floods is uh actually be able to map flood plain analysis to come to conduct a flood plain analysis and a risk assessment and all this risk assessment is uh what in what is involved is uh being able to conduct a hazard identification and assessment whereby we now we now are able to determine the maximum in inundation and depth of rivers maximum flood velocities duration of inundations and frequencies of these inundations also another aspect to flood management is be able to conduct a vulnerability assessment and determine what what uh facilities what uh uh population is actually at risk of being affected by these floods and part of this vulnerability analysis involved us social economic and development levels and being able to determine uh which infrastructure which infrastructural uh facilities are at risk and fb and also being able to discover and map them out so uh arcgis helps customers in address many of these aspects of flood management and one of this is through the online platform that actually that esri has developed and come up with uh this now uh is able to harness uh to be able to bring up to collect and uh aggregate all data from remote sensing uh sources a special data and attribute data into one into one a database as a system of record and being able to have a central place place whereby you can now be able to come up with insights on uh how to tackle the how to you can actually conduct these uh assessments so one of this aspect is uh is being able to to see uh sorry uh can you hear me am i am i audible okay yes you can okay uh one of these uh aspects involved collecting data and and uh esri has been developed some of these data that have that some of this application that enable us uh and also the customers as well to be able to go to the field and collect this data for instance you need to to map out maybe the damage assessment and uh being able to conduct uh to determine the depth of these uh flood plains so one of those apps is uh is the survey is the survey one two three apps we are able to conduct uh to develop uh survey forms and be able to actually uh conduct the uh social the vulnerability analysis and uh sorry and uh been able to carry out these surveys for instance in the in the population that has been affected you're able to map out and determine what what social economic aspect has uh what impact do they have uh from this from these floods uh another thing uh if i could uh probably go to the next flight the next slide is to show you the various uh products that you are able to develop from the arcgis system whether it's the flood impact analysis you're able to develop apps that are able to actually visualize for instance these impacts and also determine and be able to design effect and implement effective solutions over to the next slide i'm going to show you some of these products that uh esri has developed if i could just stop this and share let me just share another slide uh just just a brief demonstration is to show you how we can map we can map out this vulnerability and able to determine the location of where where actually the critical infrastructure are and uh what what impact would they have uh for instance if they occurred now so you're using rcg system to manage flood flood planning response investigation allows for easy visualization at every level uh of the planning stage and also allow every member of an organization or local partners access information they need to actually make an effective decision so uh for instance if you look at the map that i've shared we are actually today we are actually able to determine uh what critical infrastructures for instance are able to be can can be affected uh if there is a low low uh low low level uh flood or through to a high level uh flood risk area you're able to map out what extent are these uh assets able to be can be affected so for instance here we have a train station as a critical public infrastructure and you're able to locate where each each infrastructure is located and at what at what extent will these floods actually affect this type of infrastructure on the left side you can see the level of uh flooding risk and which ranges from very low to high and on on the map view you can see that the the the high the high high flooding level is on the deep deeper blue shade and you can see the where the for instance we have this panorama station which shows that there's a lot of flood list uh that's likely to happen for ins uh if if the the flood the flood is likely to occur in any location can experience flooding but most locations lack predictive miles to tell what the next flood event would look like so how would how we do this plane and respond to this event the first step is to prepare for flooding and know what the flood areas look like and always try to mitigate that threat in the map we present in the map that i'm i'm showing you you can see uh uh for this extent you're able to see uh once you conduct the vulnerability assessment you can tie this data to the for instance the population data and actually able to predict what kind of population within this area is likely to be affected that will reform the social economic and vulnerability as analysis and be able now to make improved decisions for instance on evacuation strategies and also provide alternative routes for instance if you are planning on providing alternative fruits to for instance in evacuation you can now use this map to gain deeper insights let me share another screen i don't know whether you can you can you can see uh could you confirm please if you can see my my next video yeah you can yeah biko mentioned how story maps can be used to communicate uh our stories and actually uh be able to explain and uh give a deeper insight on what uh what analysis uh is able to come up with uh for instance uh the flood management with activists we are we're able to see that floods can actually be a costly uh disaster but with the active system with the proper planning and proper planning we are able now with the organization you're able now to to have proper strategies to mitigate this these disasters in this map we have it's it's the fema fema flood map which shows a plane a flood plain and this plane uh you can see from the legend we have some layers uh that's the letter of the letter of map amendment which actually describes uh points that have uh which actually described points where people have tried to mitigate floods uh earlier and we also have a letter of map revision let me just zoom out a bit we are able to to incorporate imagery and actually conduct more uh again deeper insights on how we can have this uh uh system to inform our decisions on on the type of uh the kind of strategy that we need to undertake for instance we could have uh you could map out the parcels the land passes that are likely to be affected and the type of land use that could be that could be also be within the zone the flood the flood zone and the type of activities that are likely to be affected with this kind of floods uh in the next in the next uh map we have this is the arcgis online system uh whereby whereby we are able to see the level the level of uh uh the level of flood uh and what you are seeing here is the flood elimination stage for a place in california and this this data is actually tied to the national weather service action in the united states and you can also have the ability to zoom in to the map and identify for instance this is one of the rasters that has been processed to show the different levels of the different flood levels that have been modeled for instance in here what you can see on the map is a flood level of 15 foot stage and you can see the extent on which it covers and within within this extent you are able now to see what kind of facilities are able to be uh to be are at risk of being affected by this event so uh if i click your able now let me just see if it responds but you're able to see the inundation depth at a certain point for instance if i try and click on this section sorry uh my i think it's taking time to respond but uh this this information can be presented in a 3d view also uh in a in a scene viewer 3d 3d scene viewer within access online system that you can able to get to have a 3d view of the floodplain and the extent of the web where the risk is likely to occur uh for instance here we have uh on the map we have uh a five foot above record stage that shows the excellent accent where if the flood if the depth is uh at five foot what what extent and what type of what infrastructures are likely to be affected with this kind of uh with this kind of uh a flood i hope system is responsive enough uh maybe if i could just click and show you how the different visualization that are able to occur in within a 3d view you're able to pan and move across a and and and and glide across the plane and have that 3d visualization to actually gain deeper insights on and give you an idea of the flood depths this data can be improved because uh most of these uh uh rasters are developed from the terrain uh digital elevation models and uh lidar lidar data and this could be used to improve uh this this type of analysis this this allows you to look at what the predicted stream value of the stream is going to be along with the past flood values for instance uh maybe if if i could try and click to see if it's responsive enough so this is a 35 food flood stage and you can see uh it's it's rendering but you can see the extent the extent at which the flood has uh has uh has has spread and this and you can you're able now to visually with the imagery overlay you're able to visualize the type of infrastructure that's likely to be affected with such kind of a flood flood event if i if i glide over to the next map uh this this is a stage warning map uh this this map shows um this map shows uh uh the weather weather weather weather data and which is which is which is really important in uh informing us uh uh whether weather data is important in uh this flood flood analysis uh if uh if if i zoom close to to [Music] to this kind of to this type or to this town you dude hello can you can you hear me yes we can hello we go anthony we can hear you okay okay okay okay so uh this this map uh shows uh the weather weather data that uh is really important in informing us where where floods are likely to occur and which areas are are in high risk of having uh floods uh this is a this is an united states map uh which is uh which contains data that has been sourced from the national national uh weather service station uh of the ufds and uh with this you are able to see you're able to model the rivers at different uh time and able now to plug in weather data for instance uh we have the short-term weather warnings that is provided as a rasta and also you're able to see uh uh to get a flight the flash flash floods warning uh if it's the type of flood uh or also the long term floods for instance if i zoom in to one of the point one of the areas here uh there you're able now to see uh stream gauges for instance if i click on this and this point here you can see that we have our information on this on this stream here which shows uh different which shows uh different stream levels and height gauge heights at different times of the of the of the different times of the month and with this you're able now to to actually predict uh at what level these floods are will will likely to occur so uh the next the next map is to actually have an impact analysis and this is a vulnerability analysis to actually understand what type of what type of demographic population is likely to be affected with this kind of floods for instance uh at at uh 20 stage uh 20-foot stage uh flood risk if i if i could just zoom at the 20-stage flood risk you're able to see the the population for instance this the 2015 uh population data from the bureau of the u.s bureau of census and you're able to see the the demographic properties foreign for instance here we have the seniors which which it shows the number of seniors that are likely to be affected by this flood flood event the households with disabilities and also the average income per per household within that uh 20-foot flood event so with this kind of map you're able to gain insight and also plan uh plan your uh your emergency strategies if i glide also to the next map this map shows uh the the type of infrastructure that is also likely to be uh affected by such uh such a happening such an event uh with with flood with flood defense you you want to understand uh what what infrastructure what public infrastructure will be affected uh when it when when when uh for instance flood over certain depth occurs and with the active system at this online system you're able to actually map out exactly what which which facilities are likely to be affected for instance in in this map i have a 30 foot stage uh a flood a flood model with a buffer buffer zone over 35 foot and you're able to see for instance if i click on this uh infrastructure here you can see it's a hydrant and you you're able now to determine what exactly which number uh which amount of uh which of which number of facilities and exact uh where where they are located that that are going to be affected by this uh this flood event so uh with this now you are able to conduct a further analysis for instance with this simple app you're able to configure it and get the exact you're able to extract the exact features and actually determine uh what what strategies are you going to take in order to to cover to try and reduce the risk associated with flood on these particular facilities so with the next map uh this shows uh the collector the field collecting apps that are born out that are able you're able now to go and collect today on the field and determine uh for instance if it's a damage assessment survey you're able to go to the field and actually get to a map out what extent of the damage has occurred uh for instance in a in a in a certain uh facility for instance here we have uh we have a debris that has been downed uh that it's a it's a downed tree in a river and you're able to actually connect and see sorry this is a different picture sorry sorry for that but uh with you can see you get you get the idea that without you're able now to hyperlink that on the active online system and be able to actually attack those debris and facilities exactly and which will now be informed which will now also inform for instance if it's a reconstruction reconstruction effort and recovery effort uh what extent are you going to repair and uh which kind of strategy are you going to employ for instance in planning for the for subsequent flood happenings so with that short demo is just to demonstrate uh how the arctis online platform as a as a system is able to to is able to to is able is able to support efforts in uh conducting uh this flood flawed event and also develop a resilient uh resilient mitigation mitigating strategy thank you thank you for that biko yeah thank you sydney that was great uh i'm sure our audience has really enjoyed what you've shared um i'm seeing that there's not questions but can you stick around because we'll have a q a session at the end so i hope our audience will be able to collect their questions and ask you at the end in the interest of time but thank you so much sydney that was a great demo allow me to just quickly go back to our program yeah so thank you thank you sydney um as we move along uh we have one more presentation um left and that's from our one of our key clients um from kodio east africa who go with james boga so james booga is a project manager in gis officer at code east africa and he has a lot of experience in special analysis and interpretation of art observation products so i'd like for us to go into his presentation unfortunately he was not able to join us today but we recorded his presentation um to be able to ensure that it runs smoothly um so we'll go through james's presentation and then we'll take the questions for both sydney and then what you will have to ask in regards to james's presentation um after this in our q a session so next will be james from cordial east africa speaking on enhancing coastal and marine resilience in the western indian ocean and this will enable you to see now the other side of this management which is the insights from marines partial planning and marine biodiversity and james is really going to be able to showcase how he's able to develop things like coral bleach alert system and the maintenance of the regional database for marine so let's go into the presentation [Music] yeah so good morning everyone and thank you for joining and offering your time to come and listen to for what we're presenting and how we've been using the s3 applications to the money to manage our marine resources myself i'm james bogue i'm a project manager at collier east africa that's coastal oceans and research in the indian ocean and i'm a gis and i.t expert so in this presentation i'll be showcasing what we've been doing across the region and my topic is titled enhancing coastal and marine resilience in the western indian ocean of course with an insight for marine special planning and marine biodiversity conservation so to to start with so i'll just highlight my uh the presentation overview so i'll talk about cardio in our brief details and then we look at the western indian ocean perspective that's facing the coastal and marine environment some of the solutions that we have tried to provide or intervene and here i'll look at some core outputs and products then i'll post a bit and give more time for reaction and some question and answer before proceeding to the services and wrapper so to begin with codium east africa is a research organization where it was initiated in 1999 and our main focus is on marine and coastal ecosystem in the western indian ocean so as much as our focus is on coral reef coral so we we also have a broad context which include the economy and resilience long-term monitoring episode and small scale fisheries and things to do with climate change and sustainable development of a blue economy so our region of engagement is the western indian notion you can hear more about western indian russian i'm verified with this but since 1999 we've been in operation for 20 years and we've actually have our footprints around the red sea the east african region we've also implemented some projects in the andaman sea and southeast asia so well just to move forward and tell you about the western indian ocean region so few readers will have heard about the western indian ocean region and yet this space is home to 60 kilos to 60 million people living within the 10 east african and south african countries so the map on the right shows the western indonesian region so we have 10 countries from somali to south africa and then far east up to the comoros and the this mauritius and so this is where actually our focus and research is is focusing on so the places i've mentioned is is home to 60 million people living within a hundred kilometers stretched so it's quite uh an area that is inhabited by so many people that are drawing their their livelihoods from the ocean so in 2017 we there was a a groundbreaking report so we initiated a study that actually placed the western indian ocean region as an asset and it placed an avenue of around 300 billion us dollars so despite this enormous wealth and enormous wealth and benefits the health of the western indian ocean asset is the real japanese so looking at this is a ocean in peril so the growing human population has increased the demand for both food and space and our oceans are now being over exploited and polluted threatening these fragile ecosystems so as you can see on the the image on the right just showcase some facts that we found from the study so the over 60 million people living on this area have exactly a lot of pressure and this has resulted in shrinking of ecosystems including mangroves you can see around 18 percent of the mangroves have declined since 1980 to around 2010 but we also also experiencing challenges in terms of coral reefs so there is risk of bleaching actually occasion by climate change that has also resulted in the increase in the ph salinity of the ocean and sea level rise that has again has an impact on the marine life so the demand for food on the other hand has also led to the situation whereby the resources of this region are being over exploited so looking at this scenario you realize that there is a lot that needs to be done and unless there is effective management plans so these resources might the western international might cease to produce the resources all the benefits that people depend on so on my next slide i'll just show some key highlights so about the region so the current declines in ocean assets and future population and economic growth so provide a profound challenge to the economy of the future so the the the new economy is at the core of the african union and individual countries aspiration for development led by the ocean i'm sure most of you have heard about the blue economy so this is something that the regional government are trying to trap the wealth of this ocean and make it to to drive the development the national development at large so um so the ki another ken ocean can no longer be viewed as a limitless space with free access for all so you find that with the increasing population like i mentioned earlier so there has been great demand for space and food so there is a lot of competing interest in the ocean and unlike the the land use plan where we have some guidelines on how we can manage the space on land there is a lack of marine special plan across the region not only in kenya and this has created a lot of conflicts around this the management and utilization of this at this resource so it therefore begs that the ocean needs to be managed over its entirety and come to a balanced uses that don't undermine the productivity and many benefits that it provides so on the right there is again i'm referring to the western indian ocean economy report that i highlighted before and you can find the this report on our provided the link below so yeah it gives a depth insight of what challenges what the the values that the western indian ocean is capable of supporting and the livelihoods also so in this case you can just refer to that link and see what else other information that you can find from that so in my next slide i'll just try and showcase the interventions that we we've done and so the the current declines in assets as i've mentioned foreshadow significant challenges in the absence of conservation measures so as a research organization our common management is only anchored in our vision which is to generate and share scientifically some knowledge with a mission to to supporting to see a healthy coastal marine environment so we've been uh working on research so research extensively across the region and we have a lot of publications that we've done and so yeah so so only with an effort of making sure that we generate the the information that is required to make the informed decision when it comes to the management of marine resources so in my next slide i will highlight some examples of intervention that has a with a special perspective so in short how we've applied gis and s3 products to to aid in the management of marine resources yeah so you might have heard about the quote from i think jack benjamin i think is the ceo of s3 and he once put it that the application of gis is only limited by the imagination of those who use it so what i'm showcasing here is it's a map and it's actually um yeah a literature review so it's just showing you some literature that we reviewed and how we mapped those studies where they have been done and this has been actually being published as a paper and it is also contributing again to the world of knowledge within the region so the the key behind it here is that you you are not limited to to how you can use the application so there are so many ways it depends on how imagina imaginative you are or how creative you are with your application yeah in my next slide again here i present an overview the example of research intervention again so this is a study that we did and i used where the s3 application that is rpgs and envy to do image classification for la lana and korea korea region in northern mozambique so here we were just mapping marine habitats and we wanted to do an integrated assessment of coastal fisheries for mozambique for conservation planning purposes so this is a paper that again has received a lot of citations and yeah we are happy that we've managed to contribute to that knowledge of at that level again i present another example of what we've done with the ethnic application so this is basically using the marine special ecological tools it's an extension tool that is free it's open source but you can integrate it with act gis so what you see here in this scheme i'm showing coral reef another dispersion so it's a simulation model and it shows for the images that you see it was a simulation that was that trail for 11 days so here i'm just hoping that you can see my casa i have the the initial time and when when these the the love is being dispersed so lovely here is treated as dye concentrated initially at least so on my the first image here you can see the dark color so all those are larvae so this is day zero and we rent this model for 11 days so here i've just showcased up to the three but the last image now shows the day 11 and the dissemination progresses the through output of simulation kind of a time series and you can see how far the the navies are the coral reef levels are dispassed throughout the region within 11 days so this is just a highlight and what tries to show is that we are able to simulate areas that can either the source and the the the the destination of lovely how they are distributed so in this case for instance if you check this last image you can see after 11 days we have the nurses have spread all over the western indonesian region but you can see some hot spots developing around the northern mozambic region here so in this case we are able to identify areas that needs to be conserved of biodiversity hot spots yeah so i can now move to another intervention that we've done so with um help of again gis tools we managed to create temperature regions so this is um an output derived from ssd that's a cc surface temperature statistics so we combined data from mid 2003 to 2009 to develop what we call climatic regions within the ocean within the western indian ocean region so this uh basically to aid us all to help us in the prediction and development of coral bleaching a lot that we do each and every year since 2009 so here we do monitor the ocean during our summer season and issue bleaching alert warning to them to our users or stakeholders on the ground to train as much as possible to respond to any threats of accomplishing emanating increase from temperature but in this case what they're supposed to do is just to to make sure that they avoid any local stresses like overfishing or runoff from the from land so with this kind of analysis we managed to identify five ssd regions or zones identified as shown on my diagram far on the far right so this has been quite useful in identifying areas that are threatened by future climate changes and sea heat waves and we've been able to use this and convert it into a service that we are now having as real-time observations on on surface temperature and core bleaching warnings again i also here is a model that we developed for a ponzi brief for mombasa so here we are just trying to simulate scenarios and identify hot spot areas that are prone to flooding either by an increase or see what is by one meter so one meter two meters so it's a graduated kind of presentation whereby you can see some hot spot areas and this was actually an insight written by our director and it tries to illustrate the challenges faced by many postal cities within the region we know here we say too much it's a hotel that was just next to our office and so it's just um an indication of how some of these areas like highlighted there around so it's around bombury around here so this building here is a hotel that was actually eroded by sierra ocean and wave and yeah so it's kind of a real example of how some of these hot spots have been identified and showcased yeah so i think i've been too fast and i'd like to pause for i a you are able to follow through that presentation um i've posted it because it was going into the question and answer session which is coming in next uh but i hope you're able to really get a good understanding of how gis has been able to really help cody uh with the marine special analysis that you've seen and even they've been able to contribute towards research people that are now leading um you know the industry into understanding some of the effects of you know the sea level rise and even coral bleaching like you've seen so ladies and gentlemen that's that was our second presentation from one of our key customers um at this point um i'd like for us to you know interact i'm sure we've covered a lot of things it's now coming to 5 p.m um here in nairobi we have 30 minutes left and we saw it fit to ensure that we reserve enough time for questions and answers so you may feel free to place your questions on the chat or you can unmute yourself we have sydney here who presented if you have any questions for him or or any other panelist who's spoken kindly feel free to now engage monica um at this point i'd like to invite you back as my co-host um you can reach this part um as we see what our audience thinks about the presentations and even next steps for some of them okay thank you vico for a good job and as you've heard from biko you're free to unmute yourself and ask any question that you could be having or a comment you're almost welcome or you can raise up your hand and then we will see and welcome