ASIA - PACIFIC
Mt. Everest region was declared as "Sagarmatha National Park" in 1976 with a mission to conserve and maintain the biological and cultural values, and scenic beauty of its landscape for the benefit of the present and future generations primarily as sources of inspiration, recreation, education and prestige; and to support livelihoods of the local people in a manner that will not harm...
Evapotranspiration (ET) constitutes an important component of the water fluxes of the hydrosphere and the atmosphere. It is a process of the result of complex interaction between water and energy fluxes subjected to changing atmospheric, soil and vegetation conditions. These complex variations complicate our attempt to quantify the ET at a regional scale adequately. This study is an attempt to...
Western tragopans are endemic to the Western Himalaya region of South Asia and are threatened by change in land-use, hunting and fragmentation of its habitat. Here, we map the known distribution pattern and potential habitat of the largest surviving population, which occurs in the Palas Valley, Kohistan, NWFP, Pakistan. Although listed as globally Vulnerable, the western tragopan population in...
The October 8, 2005 earthquake (EQ), measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale caused an estimated 73,000 casualties and triggered an estimated 1,000 landslides affecting a large number of communities in surrounding steep mountain valleys. Landslides remain a great threat to communities, especially during heavy rainfall and July/August monsoon rains (GSP 2007a, Petley et al. 2006). The goal of this...
Capacity Building should be based upon the need of GI and EO applications, be it for national development planning system of member countries or professional/ market needs. Human resource development includes on job training for planners as well as 3 tier system of learning. Further, a GIS based multi-level networking is also proposed considering academic institutions/organisations, Government...
This paper is a reproduction and detailed document of the presentations given in Awareness Workshop on "Technology, Tools and Best Practices for Sustainable Mountain Development" on 11th November 2005, Yangon, Myanmar and ICIMOD – Myanmar Quinquennial Review Meeting on 25th May 2006. Most people look upon Remote Sensing and GIS section of Forest Department as a model case for...
This presentation is a modified version of presentation made at the GI-Forum organized jointly by University of Salzburg and Z-GIS Salzburg Austria in 3-6 July 2007. This presentation has been made for the mapping of land use land cover over the topographically complex terrain of southern part of Nepal. Objective of the study was to map the land use land cover in the complex mountain terrain....
Huge amount of geographical data for the HKH region has been developed that can offer a vast support to the needs of science and management. However, most of these datasets lack documentation of its technical characteristics, methodology and quality, which is extremely necessary for the future use of any dataset by the third party. The HKKH Partnership Project has developed a knowledgebase to...
Management of a protected area (ecosystem) requires integration of ever increasing volumes of diverse spatial and non-spatial data, from numerous sources at local, national and regional scales into a manageable whole. Spatial data management has a major impact on developing systems for decision support as it determines how data is organized within the management framework. This paper was...
Participatory 3D-Modelling (P3DM) is a relatively new communicative facilitation method conceived to support collaborative processes related mainly to resource use and tenure and aimed at facilitating grassroots participation in problem analysis and decision-making. P3DM integrates people’s knowledge and spatial information to produce stand-alone scale relief models that have proved to be user...
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