Open Water Symposium
The ambition of the Open Water Network Symposium is to promote and present research on cloud computing for water sciences and water management.
Date: March 14, 2019
Targeted audience:
– Developers and providers of cloud computing and open source tools in the water domain from all over the globe.
– Potential users of open source tools for water resources management in the South
– Academics and students doing research using open source tools
Venue: Nelson Mandela African Institution
| Symposium Program 14 March 2019 |
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| 8:30 Registration |
| 9:00 Brief Introductions and Opening/Welcome Prof. Ann Van Griensven, Head of department, professor, VUB/IHE-Delft, Belgium/Netherlands |
| SESSION 1: EMERGING WATER RESOURCES PROBLEMS |
| 09:30 Drinking Water Supply and Its Challenges in Ethiopia Dr. Beshah Mogesse, Commissioner for Water Development Commission, the Ministry of Water, Irrigation & Energy, Ethiopia |
| 10:00 Water Resources Monitoring and Assessment – The case of Ruvu Basin. Rosemary Masikini, Ministry of Water, Wami/Ruvu Basin Water Board |
| 10:30 Coffee Break |
| 11:00 The Boomerang Effect of Nile: Past; Current and Future Challenges. Mihret Dananto Ulsido, Hawassa University, Ethiopia |
| 11:30 Stormwater harvesting and use in Cape Town South Africa. John Okedi, South Africa |
| 12:00 How useful are global data for estimation of evapotranspiration at catchment scale? Ann van Griensven, VUB/IHE-Delft, Belgium/Netherlands |
| 12:30 Lunch Break |
| SESSION 2: SMART SENSORS & INNOVATIVE DATA MANAGEMENT |
| 13:30 Innovative solutions for monitoring and data management. Mark de Blois (Upande, Kenya) & Hans van der Kwast (IHE-Delft, Netherlands) |
| 14:00 Spatial Data Infrastructures: the Benin case study. Hans van der Kwast (IHE-Delft, Netherlands) &Mark de Blois (Upande, Kenya) |
| 14:30 Use of smart Sensors to estimate evapotranspiration. Douglas Nyolei, VUB/SUA, Belgium/Tanzania |
| 15:00 Coffee Break |
| SESSION 3: EMERGING TECHNIQUES FOR WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT USING REMOTE SENSING |
| 15:30 Remote sensing for water resources management: from data to information Erick Khamala, Managing Director of LocateIT Ltd, Nairobi |
| 16:00 Application of TREX script for vegetation monitoring in an Oasis Environment using Remote sensed data from ProbaV Kaoutar Badioui, VUB (Belgium), Mohammadia School of Engineering (Morocco) |
| 16:30 Using open-access remote sensing data to report on water resources conditions: the Water Accounting + framework Elga Salvadore, VUB/IHE-Delft, Belgium/Netherlands & BICH TRAN, IHE-Delft, Belgium |
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