Drought assessment St' Lucia

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Drought assessment St. Lucia
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Drought assessment St. Lucia

• ? Drought susceptibility map
• Point rating according to territorial
  characteristics
• Data layers topography, soil classes, land use,
  etc.
• Mapping by satellite imagery
• ? Drought impact map
• Add vulnerability to susceptibility map
• Make drought scenarios using drought indices
• Identify impact of drought of given severity (no
  rain for a certain period of time)
• ? Drought now-/forecasting system
• Use above data layers/indices to get current
  situation and immediate/future development
• Based on real-time meteorological situation

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Drought assessment St. Lucia
ACCESS
METEO
REAL TIME GIS analysis
GeoDB
INTERNETVISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS
MAP GENERATION
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Flood hazard management
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Flood hazard management
Hydrological modeling
System architecture
Features
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Amazonian deforestation monitoring
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Queimadas fires

• About 70 of fires are not natural -gt people
  burn forest to gain land for cultivation
• Fire with more than 10 km2 are detected by
  satellite sensors
• Monitoring of deforestation for cultivation
  purpose

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