First CAWa Monitoring Station HyMet01 Installed near Bishkek
The first complex hydrometeorological monitoring station of the CAWa project has been installed in Baitik, around 40 km south of Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). It went into test operation on December 14, 2009.
Use of RapidEye satellite data for assessment of glacier and vegetation dynamics
The CAWa research group will use RapidEye satellite data to assess the dynamics of glaciers and vegetation cover in Central Asia. The respective scientific proposal has been approved by RESA – Rapid Eye Science Archive in October 2009.
RapidEye earth observation satellites provide multi-spectral images with up to 15 daily revisits in a high spatial resolution of 6 m.
DLR visits SIC ICWC in Tashkent
Between 23 and 24 September 2009, representatives of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) met Prof. Dr. Dukhovny, director of the Scientific-Information Center of the Interstate Commission on Water Coordination in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
DLR meets EC IFAS in Almaty
Between 19th and 20th September 2009, representatives of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) met with Prof. Dr. Ibatullin, director of the Executive Committee of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (EC IFAS), further representatives of EC IFAS, and other Kazakh research institutions.