Catch-Mekong

Catch-Mekong Project Meeting held in Ho Chi Minh City

On February 26, 2019 the Vietnamese and German project partners held a joint project meeting at the Southern Satellite Technology Application Center (STAC) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam organized by the Center for Water Management and Climate Change (WACC) of the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM). All project partners met to present results of the measurement campaigns in the Mekong Delta which were organized by the WACC and conducted in close cooperation with GFZ - German Research Center for Geoscience, LU-FI -Ludwig-Franzius-Institute for Hydraulic, Waterways and Coastal Engineering, and SEBA Hydrometrie GmbH since the kick off meeting in July 2017. In addition, the project results for Earth observation analyses were presented by the project partners from STAC, EOMAP GmbH and the remote sensing unit of the University of Wurzburg. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) reported on the progress made in the development of the Mekong Knowledge Hub.