CAWa summer school 2018 at the German Kazakh University
The 5th Summer School "Methods and Tools for the Assessment and Monitoring of Central Asian Water and Land Resources " took place at the German-Kazakh University in Almaty 11-22 June 2018.
International Symposium on Water and Land Resources in Central Asia – Apply for Travel Grants until May 31 2018!
The participation in the International Symposium (www.cawa-project.net/conference-2018) is free of charge. However, travel expenses might not be covered for everybody!
We offer grants (including travel expenses and accommodation) for a limited number of participants without financial support from their home institution.
International Symposium on Water and Land Resources in Central Asia – Call for Abstracts is open!
Central Asia, comprising the arid to semi-arid regions of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, faces enormous challenges with regard to the scarcity and the pronounced inter-annual variability of water resources.
CAWa Summer School 2018: Call for Applications
The Call for applications for the annual CAWa Summer School "Methods and Tools for the Assessment and Monitoring of Central Asian Water and Land Resources" has been opened. Please submit your documents by 30 April 2018. The Summer School is the fifth in a row and will be held from 11 to 22 June 2018 at the German-Kazakh University in Almaty.
CAWa Project Meeting in Tashkent on the "Validation Strategy for Land Use Classification"
Within the CAWa project, the Department of Remote Sensing at the University of Würzburg (Germany) and the Scientific Information Center of the Interstate Coordination Water Commission (SIC ICWC) in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) held a meeting on ‘Validation Strategy for land use classification’. This meeting was organized within the Work package III: “Online Tool for Monitoring of Land and Water Use Efficiency” on 27th February – 1st March 2018 at SIC ICWC.
CAWa брошюра
CAWa ученые в тесном сотрудничестве с центральноазиатскими партнерскими организациями разработали несколько инструментов, направленных на улучшение управления трансграничными водами.
Это широкий спектр инструментов связанных с управлением водными ресурсами, таких как гидрометеорологические наблюдения в высокогорных районах, мониторинг уровня воды на основе радаров альтиметрия, мониторинг снежного покрова в оперативном режиме, оценка интенсивности использования земли на основе дистанционного зондирование, а также удобные для пользователя алгоритмы прогнозирования сезонных осадков и речного стока. В брошюре дается обзор инструментов CAWa. Заинтересованные пользователи приветствуются!
Job Announcement
Name of position: Research Associate – Specialist for Remote Sensing and GIS-based analysis
Location of the position: German-Kazakh-University in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Deadline for applications: February 27, 2018
Employer: CAWa project at Department of Remote Sensing at University of Würzburg and German-
Kazakh-University (GKU) in Almaty
WUEMoCA Administrator Training as a Follow-up of the Server Transfer to the SIC ICWC
From October 24 to 27, the Scientific Information Center - Interstate Coordination Water Commission of Central Asia (SIC ICWC) in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and the Department of Remote Sensing at the University of Würzburg (Germany) conducted a first joint WUEMoCA administrator training for IT-specialists, programmers as well as GIS and remote sensing experts at the SIC ICWC.
Workshop on "Methods and Tools for the Assessment and Monitoring of Central Asian Water Resources" hold at TIIAME
In the frame of CAWa Project, the first workshop on "Methods and Tools for the Assessment and Monitoring of Central Asian Water Resources" at TIIAME (Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers) was held in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) on 7-8 August 2017.
CAWa Summer School 2017: Call for Applications
The Call for applications for the annual CAWa Summer School "Methods and Tools for the Assessment and Monitoring of Central Asian Water and Land Resources" has been opened. Please submit your documents by 9 April 2017. The Summer School is the fourth in a row and will be held from 5 to 17 June 2017 at the German-Kazakh University in Almaty.