Common topic: human security

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• Common topic human security
• unresolved post-independence problems land
  reform without planning
• continuous decline of the economic situation
• increasing social problems as secondary effect
  productive part of population seriously affected
  by AIDS or emigrates
• Murambatsvina get rid of the fifth (started in
  May 2005) demolishing informal markets and
  dwellings UN estimates 700.000 people effected
  (example quickbird scenes 18. April 4. June)

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context / end users

• ERSI in Harare
• EU delegation
• Regional SADC, SAHIMS
• JRC central data pool
• Z_GIS
• Fill metadata base from Qinetiq

-gt Z_GIS -gt JRC -gt Z_GIS
Data provision
Coordination of Case study
tasks
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User requirements

• Two major scales in terms of spatial and
  temporal resolution
• Whole country - major cities
• Changes between 1998/99 and 2005/06
• Short term changes (e.g. demolition of informal
  settlements May-August 2005)

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Monitoring human security increasing intensity of
conflicts (inter- and intra national) Murambats
vina get rid of the filth started in May
2005 demolishing of informal markets and
dwellings.
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• monitoring features
• population numbers and characteristics
• migration out of the country, rural-urban,
  urban-rural
• land cover / land use change resettlement
  policy
• urban area damage assessment destruction of
  informal settlements and markets
• qualitative early warning indicators for food
  insecurity, internal conflicts

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• Data available
• full cover Landsat 1990/91
• Selected Landsat scenes from 1993/94
• full cover Landsat 1999/00
• Harare full coverage IKONOS pan 2001 Harare
  North Qb 2004
• parts of all Zimbabwean urban areas IKONOS pan
  2001
• Spot for Hurungwe 1995
• other raster Population (Landscan), SRTM, GLC
  2000, full coverage 1250 k maps scanned
• auxiliary data (high quality!) population at
  district level, road network, settlements, admin,
  run-off lines, urban areas..

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• Previous work
• maps scanned and mosaicked
• for the Harare Landsat scene land use
  interpretation based on ETM
• population density estimation for this Landsat
  scene
• creation of improved SRTM dataset
• GIS repository
• Established contacts to local experts and
  institutions
• (VegRIS Vegetation Resources Information
  System, Environment Remote Sensing Institute,
  and others)

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Data sets to be purchased / organised

• Landsat / Aster / SPOT 2004/05
• Envisat / ERS (multitemporal, availabiltiy of
  archive data has to be evaluated) initially for
  urban areas
• Future TerraSAR, Radarsat 2 .
• Quickbird Scenes from April June 2005 Harare to
  be purchased
• For 3D change detection and Visualisation a
  stereo pair (or the WG concentrates on other case
  studies where this is available)

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• Applications / Indicators for (in-)stability
• Monitoring of politically motivated actions
  against population
• human security
• Urban fringe
• Rural livelihoods
• Border monitoring Mozambique (Beira corridor)

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• Potential involvement of WPs
• Application
• 20600 population monitoring
• 20500 early warning
• 20800 border monitoring
• 20100 feature recognition
• 20300 change detection
• 20200 data integration visualisation
• 20700 infrastructure monitoring (limited)
• 20900 damage assessment (potential interest)
• 21200 responding to crises
• 21300 EU security policy RELEX/AIDCO (potential
  interest?)