Continuing the meeting in December 2015, on January 28, 2016, representatives of CLS, France with the team leader - Mr. Olivier Germain, Project director – Radio application visited and had an open discussion with leaders and professionals from IWRP, leading by Mr. Thai Gia Khanh, Deputy Director of the Institute.

The seminar was specialized in the application of remote sensing technology in sustainable management of water resources, ecosystem, flood mapping and especially proposing solutions to the severe drought event in the South Central and Central Highlands of Vietnam. The presentations focused on “Determination of Ecosystem services from remote sensing and Hydrological modeling for water resources planning” (by MSc. Ha Thanh Lan – Head of Department of Training and International Cooperation, IWRP), “Drought and saline intrustion in Mekong Delta, Southern Central and Central Highlands and solutions” (by MSc. Dang Kim Nhung- Head of Department of Water resources planning for South Central Region), and “Satellite remote sensing and applied to the hydrology sector” (by Mr. Olivier Germain – CLS).  As presented by MSc. Dang Kim Nhung, the South Central Region of Vietnam has been experiencing and affected significantly by the historical drought (starting from the summer-fall season of 2014). In 2016, the drought season started from the winter-spring in Binh Thuan, Ninh Thuan and Khanh Hoa (Binh Thuan is the most affected area in the region) and is expected to become more severe and widespread in the next summer-fall crop. About domestic water, there are about 31,000 households (hh.) lacking water for daily use, Binh Thuan with 25,000 hh.s and Ninh Thuan with 5,500 hh.s.

From the current status of water resources management in Vietnam, the representatives of the two agencies proposed several ideas for future cooperation applying remote sensing in water resources management, monitoring of the environment, especially continental water resources.

For more information, please contact directly to htqt@iwrp.gov.vn.