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- ADPC - Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (HQ) in Tha Mai, Chanthaburi, Thailand
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Thailand
ADPC - Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (HQ)
Full time
**Description**:
**Purpose and Objectives**: ADPC is an autonomous international organization with a vision to reduce disaster and climate risk impacts on communities and countries in Asia and the Pacific by working with all key stakeholders. Established in 1986 as a technical capacity building center, ADPC has grown and expanded its role to be for scientific, educational, developmental and humanitarian purposes. ADPC employs a wide range of professional expertise typically required for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Resilience (CR) in an effective manner.
- ADPC develops and implements cross-sectoral projects/programs on the strategic themes of risk governance, urban resilience, climate resilience, health risk management, preparedness for response and resilient recovery. Our strategic themes are complemented and underpinned by the cross-cutting themes of gender and diversity, regional and transboundary cooperation as well as poverty and livelihoods.- Through its work, ADPC supports the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the New Urban Agenda, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the agenda defined at the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, and other relevant international frameworks-
- The Geospatial Information (GEO) Department supports stakeholders to increase their uses of geospatial technology, data, and information for supporting decision making related to disaster risk management and climate resilience. The department supports all thematic areas of focus of ADPC to achieve their goals, mainly through:
- Increased accessibility and technical capacity to develop, maintain, and use geospatial
information including disaster and climate risk maps, forecasted and real-time disaster
- data for early warning, and damage data for post-disaster assessment and recovery
- planning,- Geospatial solutions, such as maps, tools, models, and data, customized to the demands of stakeholdersSERVIR Southeast Asia (SERVIR SEA) is a 5-year project, co-created by USAID, NASA, and ADPC, to address disaster and climate resilience as well as environmental issues in Southeast Asia.
SERVIR SEA’s objective is Expanded and Scaled Climate Actions by using Satellite Data and Geospatial Information in Decision Making, which will be achieved through the following outcomes:
- Regional platform(s) strengthened and/or established for accelerating, scaling, and/or sustaining adoption of data and information
- Increased investment from diversified partnership with stakeholders to support the
development and use of data and information
- Increased accessibility of data and information
- Strengthened capacity of Stakeholders to use data and information
SERVIR SEA's Air Quality Monitoring for Sustainable Landscape and Better Human Health regional service aims to address the growing concern over air pollution and to provide valuable information on air quality to promote sustainable landscape management and protect human health in the region. As Southeast Asia experiences rapid industrialization, urbanization, and seasonal events such as forest fires and agricultural burning, the need for effective air quality monitoring and management becomes increasingly important for the well-being of both the environment and human health.
The service uses a combination of satellite-based remote sensing, ground-based monitoring, and machine learning analysis to provide real-time and forecasting information on air quality.
In this framework, the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) satellite mission has recently started to provide air quality related data over the Asian continent. The retrieval of key atmospheric species at sub-daily intervals are anticipated to advance and enhance the potentiality of satellite remote sensing technology for air quality surveillance and specifically the temporal and spatial specifications of satellite observations and nowcasting. One of the immediate objectives of the SERVIR Air Quality service is to integrate the GEMS data into the operational system. In this regard, the SERVIR SEA is seeking a research assistant to conduct satellite-based remote sensing of air quality related work.
science-based output. This position is located in ADPC, Bangkok, but there is a possibility of working remotely.
**Expected Outputs**:
The following outputs are expected from the assignment:
- An operational fully-automated satellite data pipeline which can provide near-real time air quality indicators from the GEMS satellite products, written in an open-source programming language and with detailed inline documentation.
- A detailed presentation of the analysis of a through calibration / validation exercise between the GEMS satellite measurements and surface observations (such as AERONET and regulatory-grade stations) to quantify the degree of association between the datasets.
- Based on output 2, a scientif
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