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Bonn Workshop

Activities of the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Support (UN-SPIDER) Regional Support Office in Nigeria for 2009/2010

Godstime K. James and Halilu A. Shaba, UN-SPIDER Regional Support Office in Nigeria, Space Applications Department, National Space Research and Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria.

latitude: 
9.05804
longitude: 
7.48906

The UN-SPIDER Network and its activities

Session number four included presentations from UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices and other supporting institutions, demonstrating the dynamically growing international network of the UN-SPIDER pr

Interoperability - A key requirement for emergency and disaster management

Athina Trakas, Director, European Services, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

 

Earthquake emergency preparedness in Central-Hungary - Preparing rapid response measurements using Remote Sensing and GIS-methods

Barbara Theilen-Willige, TU Berlin, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Department of Hydrogeology, Germany

Helmut Wenzel, VCE Holding GmbH, Vienna, Austria

latitude: 
47.4984
longitude: 
19.0408

A prototype design for a Web-GIS disaster support system: The Bolivia Amazon case study

Vicente García García, Humberto L. Perotto-Baldivieso, Stephen Hallett
Natural Resources Department, Cranfield University, United Kingdom

Support of remote sensing for natural disaster risk maps in Leyte, Philippines

Olaf Neussner, Chief Advisor for Disaster Risk Management, German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Philippines

latitude: 
10.63
longitude: 
124.951

Monitoring and prediction of natural disasters in Kyrgyzstan

Teshebaeva Kanayim and Bolot Moldobekov

Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences (CAIAG)

latitude: 
42.87
longitude: 
74.5879

Flood hazard assessment with the help of satellite imagery

Matthias Zink, Dresden University of Technology

latitude: 
9.97911
longitude: 
-84.1854

Earth observation and geospatial information in support of risk and disaster management

The third session saw presentations of relevant space-based solutions for risk and disaster management support and emergency response, including on-going and planned initiatives, case studies and b

PLATON - Trusted Unified Communication & Collaboration (UCC) in health or disaster projects

Ingo Liedtke, T-Systems International GmbH, PDC Engineering, Germany