| Session Details | |
| Section | IWG - Interdisciplinary Working Groups |
| Session Title | Disaster Geo-Information Management |
| Main Convener | Dr. Dinand Alkema (ITC, Netherlands) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Manzul Hazarika (AIT-Geo-Informatics Center, Thailand) |
| Session Description | The number of people affected by floods, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other natural hazards has dramatically increased over the past decades. In addition soil erosion, salinisation, subsidence and other forms of land degradation pose continuous threats to food security and environmental quality. Natural disaster preparedness, hazard prevention and mitigation have become issues of global importance. Spatial data play an important role at various points in the disaster management cycle, in particular in the preparatory phase of the production of hazard and risk maps, during the disaster in real-time monitoring to support mitigation efforts, and in the aftermath in damage assessment to provide information for rehabilitation and construction. For this session we would like to invite original presentations that address: - The application of geo-information science in modeling and quantifying risk the risk to urban and rural environments of hazardous events; - The application of remote sensing for disaster monitoring and damage assessment; - The development and application of early warning systems; - The development of spatial data infrastructure for disaster management at both local and national levels; - Supporting disaster risk management at local level, involving participatory GIS and decision support systems. |