BNPP/ASB Functional Value of Biodiversity Project – Phase II 


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RE:HOPE [forwarded messages attached]  MvN Mon 11/18/2003

FORWARDED MESSAGES 

 

-----Original Message----- 

From: Meine van Noordwijk [mailto:m.van-noordwijk@cgiar.org

Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:32 AM 

To: 'Tomich, Tom (ICRAF)' 

Subject: FW: Please help (fwd) 

Hi Tom trying hard to get a feasible outline... meine 

 

-----Original Message----- 

From: Meine van Noordwijk Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:23 PM 

To: 'Jeffrey E Richey' 

Subject: RE: Please help (fwd) 

 

Jeff In the next couple of hours I'll send you a draft lay-out for the overall activity 2 report -- I'm trying to fit it into a logical story line... Louis' scenarios involve changes in overall forest cover as well as changes in spatial pattern -- we expect changes in the amount of irrigated rice, so we might expect some hydrological impacts... Meine 

 

-----Original Message----- 

From: Jeffrey E Richey [mailto:jrichey@u.washington.edu

Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:51 PM 

To: m.van-noordwijk@cgiar.org 

Subject: Re: Please help (fwd) 

 

Meine - That said, I have no idea what Louis is up to, and how it possibly relates to or otherwise could be incorporated in our immedaite efforts. On the UW side, we will generate "sufficient" scenarios to explore the overall issues of possible landuse change consequences. And we are waking up to the importance of irrigation on overall water balance. With regard to the overall Activity 2 report, do you see that work is progressing adequately? More specifically, what do you/will you need from us to get the immediate job done? Jeff 

 

---------- Forwarded message ---------- 

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:18:26 +0700 

From: David Thomas  

To: Meine van Noordwijk Cc: Porranee Rattanaviwatpong , Jeffrey E Richey , Saipim , Pornwilai Saipothong  

Subject: Re: Please help 

 

Dear Meine, This is just a note to let you know that Louis Lebel and his team have been working 'flat-out' trying to get the scenarios finished. Given the last-minute 'glitches' that always happen (which seem especially inevitable when rushing under a deadline), they now expect to have land use layers for one, if not all four, scenarios finished by tomorrow. We will forward that input to you as soon as we receive it in the office. They plan to finish the text write-up this weekend. Of course, we all understand that this is a first cut at all this, but from what we've seen elsewhere, I remain optimistic that this will be an important first step in improving the way scenario work has been conducted so far in this region. Pornwilai and I have also discussed some of the last minute data items needed by Porranee, and she should send that info off soon. Hope all is going well on your end -- It should be interesting when we can get a chance to stand back an look at the fruits of all this effort (after the dust settles enough to see it). Cheers, David

 

 ----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Meine van Noordwijk"  

To: "David Thomas"  

Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 10:44 AM 

Subject: RE: Please help 

 

Thanks -- I'd thought that we were further along with the Mae Chaem application than we actually are, hope we can still 'squeeze' it -- will you be around next week for comments on draft report text on Mae Chaem? Any signs of life from Louis? Yesterday we had a simple 'farewell' event with Ann -- ideas for the Philippines follow up are taking shape, we'll look for a way to strenghten the UPLB/national level connections without an IRS in place... best regards  Meine

 

 -----Original Message-----

 From: David Thomas [mailto:Thomas2@loxinfo.co.th ]

 Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 3:59 PM

 To: Meine van Noordwijk

 Cc: Saipim; Pornwilai Saipothong; SureepornS@icraf-cm.org ;AnatikaR@icraf-cm.org; Pornwilai (yahoo); Atiek Widayati; Farida; 'Betha Lusiana'; Pramualpis Kanthatham (cgiar)

Subject: Re: Please help

 

Dear Meine,

Just back from Luang Prabang.

The CD is on its way with Maew and Pong. Good Luck!

David

 

 ----- Original Message -----

From: "Saipim" <SaipimC@icraf-cm.org>

 To: "David Thomas" <thomas2@loxinfo.co.th>

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 2:28 PM

Subject: (Meine)Fw: Please help

 

fyi. Jeap is working on this kha

 

----- Original Message -----

 From: "Meine van Noordwijk" <m.van-noordwijk@cgiar.org>

 To: "Saipothong, Pornwilai (ICRAF)" <P.Saipothong@cgiar.org>; "Pramualpis Kanthatham" <p.kanthatham@cgiar.org >; "Saipim Pim Channuan"

<s.channuan@cgiar.org >

 Cc: <SureepornS@icraf-cm.org >; <AnatikaR@icraf-cm.org >; <pwilai_s@yahoo.com>; "Atiek Widayati" <a.widayati@cgiar.org>; "David

 Thomas" <d.thomas@cgiar.org >; "Farida" <farida@cgiar.org >; "Betha Lusiana"  <b.lusiana@cgiar.org>

Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 2:18 PM

 Subject: Please help

 

 Dear Khun Pong, Ngeaw, Jiep, Saipim

Hoping to still catch you in time...

Looking with Atiek at the message sent we realize that it would be

best if we have a copy of the Maew Chaem DEM here and work directly from it

(Desi needs elevation for the SpatRain, we may use a slightly different way

of defining subcatchments...).

Can Jiep copy it on a CD and send it along with Maew and Khun Pong??

Sorry toi be such iun a rush, but I thoughht we had sorted this all out some time to go and we now have only few days left to finish the report

by December 1...

 

 Meine

 

 PS our time schedule is:

 monday - Atiek DEM, distcance, subcatchments

 tuesday/wednesday - Desi Spatrain

 thursday=> - Farida (in Bukitting) Genriver & graphs...

 saturday ==> Meine report.....

 

 -----Original Message-----

From: pornwilai [mailto:p.saipothong@cgiar.org]

Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:21 PM

To: Atiek Widayati

 Cc: 'Farida'; SureepornS@icraf-cm.org; AnatikaR@icraf-cm.org;pwilai_s@yahoo.com

Subject: Re: Please help -- BNPP final runs

 

Dear Atiek and Ai,

 

Here we are! the sub-watersheds for Mae Chaem watershed and the

centroids for the GenRiver. The shape files in the attachment includes:

 (1) STREAM.shp is the streamlines, (2) NEWSUB4 and (3) NEWSUB5.shp are

 the sub-watershed files that you select as you like and the centroid in

different shape files (but almost the same name (NEWSUB4_CENTROID, NEWSUB5_CENTROID).

(3) MCWSH is the Mae Chaem watershed as a whole.

We had divided it into 6 to 9 sub-watersheds only because the size of our biggest sub-watershed in our area is about that size (almost 700 km2).

 

Hope it can be used but don't hesitate to tell me if you have any  questions.

 

 I'm in Khon Kaen province, Northeastern of Thailand and will go back to the office next week.

 

 Cheers,

 Ngaew

 

 

 Atiek Widayati writes:

 

 Hi Ngaew,

I am not familiar with 'makeroute' or 'measureroute' algorithm in ArcGIS, we havent even opened the software;-). probably it's the same

with flowlength and stream length in hydro?  The tricky thing about Genriver input is it asks for 'routing distance' from 'centroid' of the subcatchment to the 'outlet of the whole catchment'.  I'm not sure how to do it in ArcGIS. Farida did it the way she explained in her email below.

 

If it hasnt been figured out yet there (and sorry I cant help much), but since the modelling team needs it asap, I guess my immediate

solution is:

just create subcatchments from Mae Chaem DEM ( or I think you already have it ? ), save it into .shp. As much as possible it's better if the subcatchment centroid is included in the attribute table (during generation, if you generate from DEM). Send it to us along with river network (shp too).

Then we will just calculate the routing distance manually in Bogor.

 

I know it's not a sexy solution, but for 1-2 days time frame that's what I can think of.

 

Hope all is well with you and youre enjoying your time out there!

 

Looking fwd to your response,

Atiek

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Farida [mailto:farida@cgiar.org]

Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 4:38 PM

To: Saipothong, Pornwilai (ICRAF)

Cc: Atiek Widayati; SureepornS@icraf-cm.org

Subject: RE: Please help -- BNPP final runs

Importance: High

 

Dear Ngaew,

I am sorry to rush you with this routing distance problem.

 I will try to explain about how we derive the routing distance from DEM (Mba' Atiek, please correct and add my information).

1. To be used in GenRiver, we need to delinate from DEM several sub catchments with not so much different in size (Currently GenRiver

can have 20 subcatchments)eg. SUmberjaya area is about 400 km2, we defined it as 15 subcathments.

2. Overlay of subcatchment with river network. Calculate manually  (using ruler in ArcInfo) from the center of each subcatchment following

the main river network to the catcthment outlet.

3. To be able to run the GenRiver correctly, we also need the area of each subcathment in km.

 

I hope it will help you. Once again sorry to ask these data in rush since BNPP dateline is December 1.

Thank you very much for your assistance. Regards,- ai -

 

 -----Original Message-----

 From: pornwilai [mailto:p.saipothong@cgiar.org]

 Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 2:28 PM

To: Meine van Noordwijk

Cc: David Thomas; Farida; Atiek Widayati; SureepornS@icraf-cm.org

Subject: Re: Please help -- BNPP final runs

 

Dear Khun Meine,

We (Nong and I) are in Khon Kaen, Northeast Thailand now.

 Regarding the routing distance, Nong suggest that (may be) we can do  that by using 'measureroute' or 'makeroute' command from our ArcGIS

software and Jeab is working on that . I wonder how Atiek did it by DEM? Could you please explain it in more detail, Atiek?

 

We will try to make it done very soon.

 Best regards,

 Ngaew

 

Meine van Noordwijk writes:

 

 Dear Ngeaw

 In going through the latest set of runs of GenRiver for the BNPP report (we have to hand it in by December 1 -- so with the upcoming El

Fitiri hoilidays that basically means we have only 1 week left...), we realize that we don't have the routing distances for the various

subcatchments in Mae Chaem -- we need that quickly, the precision doesnt mater too much.... Atiek

derived the distances for S Jaya from the DEM and a manual process, maybe she can help doing it here if you don't have time (with the upcoming

workshop), but please get us something soon....

 

Thanks!

Meine

Notes? Questions? Comments ?
Contact: Sandra Velarde s.velarde@cgiar.org

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