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Call for Abstracts: "JBGIS Best Practises Booklet on Geo-information for Risk and Disaster Management"
Each year, disasters such as storms, floods, volcano outbreaks and
earthquakes cause thousands of deaths and tremendous damage to property
around the world, displacing tens of thousands of people from their
homes and destroying their livelihoods. Many of these deaths and losses
could be prevented if better information were available regarding the
onset and course of such disasters. Several technologies offer the
potential to improve prediction and monitoring of hazards, risk
mitigation and Disaster Management, such as meteorological and Earth
observation satellites, communication satellites and satellite-based
positioning. Helpful application of these technologies requires a solid
base of political support, legal frameworks, administrative
regulations, institutional responsibility and capacity, and technical
training. Early warning systems have to be part of disaster management
plans and policies. Preparedness to respond is to be engrained into
public awareness.
Therefore, the Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JBGIS,
http://www.fig.net/jbgis/) and UN-SPIDER jointly invite to contribute
to a " Best Practises Booklet on Geo-information for Risk and Disaster
Management" that will create a decision support forum based on the
knowledge and experience of experts and will outline the potential uses
of the Geo-Information Technologies to governmental, institutional and
operative decision makers all over the world. So the articles should be
no lengthy scientific publications but short enough to be read during a
coffee break. They should address one or more of the disaster types and
technologies listed below:
Disaster Types:
· Geophysical: earthquake, tsunami, volcano, mass movement,
severe storm, flood, fire, drought, extreme temperature
· Biological: epidemic, insect infestation, vector diseases
· Technological/societal: pollution (air, soil, water),
industrial facilities failure, terrorist attacks, traffic break down
and accidents (air, road, sea).
Technology used:
· Data collection technology: sensors (air, space, terrestrial,
soil, water, etc.), products (optical and range imagery, other
measurements)
· Data processing: systems for real-time monitoring/tracking,
prediction and simulation
· Data management and analysis: spatio-temporal, image, moving
objects and point clouds databases (models, indexing, analysis)
· Data access and sharing: SDI, Web portals, command and
control systems, Net-centric systems, ontology/semantic-based
applications, context-aware search.
· Data visualization: Web visualization, VR environments
(Google Earth, Visual Earth, etc.), dedicated systems
· Other successfully applied geo-information technology
The Booklet is intended to cover all regions of the world and all
phases of the disaster management cycle.
Call for Abstracts
The Abstracts should not exceed 400 words and should outline a
successful application, including data acquisition, information
extraction and dissemination, and a clear statement of the benefits
and further potential of the practice described as compared to
classical methods.
The deadline for submitting the abstracts is 30 April 2009. The
abstracts should be submitted as an email attachment to Prof. Piero
Boccardo ( piero.boccardo@polito.it).
The Committee will select a certain number of abstracts and inform the
potential authors of full papers on 30 May 2009. The abstracts which
are not selected for the "Best Practices Booklet" will be evaluated for
the Gi4DM to be organized early 2010 in Turin Italy .
The deadline for submission of the selected full papers is 30 September
2009.
Publication and worldwide announcement of the "Best Practices Booklet"
is planned on 2 July 2010 in Vienna at UNOOSA.
| Contact information | n/a |
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| News type | CallForPaper |
| File link |
http://www.fig.net/jbgis/ |
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| Source of information | The Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JBGIS) |
| Subject(s) | RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY |
| Geographical coverage | International |
| News date | 11/03/2009 |
| Working language(s) | ENGLISH |
