MONGOLIAN GOVERNMENT REGULATORY AGENCY THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY REMOTE SENSING AND GEO- INFORMATION SYSTEM APPLICATION in NEMA Ariundalai.D Colonel, Head of Communication and Early Warning division 1 Content 1. Background 2. Disaster types of Mongolia 3. Usage of Geo-portal in Mongolia 4. Introduction of Emergency management and warning center 5. Challenges of using Geo-DRM 2
Background Area - 1.565.000 km2 (603.909 sq mi) Population - 2.9 million Capital city - Ulaanbaatar 50% of the population the 19 th largest country in the world Provinces – 21 3 Type of disasters and hazards Natural disasters Manmade disasters Climatic hazardous phenomena − Technological accidents − Severe snowfall − Industrial accidents − Dzud − Traffic accidents − Dust storm − Leakage of chemical and − Flood radiological substances Steppe and forest fire − Explosion − Desertification − Building fire − Thunderstorm Social − Geological threats − Public disorder − Earthquake − Terrorist attack − Landslides Biological threats − Spread of detrimental rodents − Human infectious diseases 4 − Livestock or animal infectious diseases
Disaster types in Mongolia • Most common disaster types: drought, flood, dzud, snow and dust storms, forest and steppe fires. • Type of disasters in Mongolia depends on season. – Dzud - from December to March, – Dust storms during April to May, – forest and steppe fire during March to October – Drought from June to August. 5 Number of disasters 2005-2013 6
Human loss 2005-2013 7 The number of dead livestock 9.7 million livestock dead from disaster of dzud Main reason of huge losses are dzud followed by drought. 8
In 2013, our 3 officer participated in training course on capacity building programme on space technology and GIS applications for disaster risk reduction . 9 Usage of Geo-portal in Mongolia Geo-portal was installed in our server. technical specification: Dell power edge T410 CPU: Intel Xeon 2.40Ghz (16CPUs) RAM: 4096mb OS: Windows server 2008 Geo-portal server Server room 10
We are using the Geo-DRM which has been provided by ESCAP environmental database. for example - land use - ecosystem - Forest - soil - groundwater - fodder resources - province’s border - grassland - specially protected area 11 Map of fodder resources Map of groundwater 12
Disaster early warning system Mongolian government is co- implementing South Korean communications provider KT project of Disaster Early Warning System in 2014. Disaster Early Warning System using the GIS and satellite communication. Dissemination of warning message using the GIS Prevention of disaster risk using GIS 13 disaster General structure of disaster early warning system When occur the disaster Early Warning System will disseminate warning messages to public automatically through TV, FM radio, siren towers, cellular phone. 14
60 siren towers with satellite installed in Ulaanbaatar city. Also warning 15 devices installed on the Televisions and FM radios. Challenges of using Geo-DRM • Lack of trained officials at local level 16
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