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Participating Organizations: Bonn International Centre for Conversion (BICC), DigitalGlobe (DG), DG/Tomnod (via webconference), DIFD (via webconference) (UK), DLR (Germany), EC‐GROW Copernicus, EC‐JRC (via webconference), Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT/OSM), ImageCat, ITHACA (Italy), NDRCC (China), Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) (US), University of Bonn, UNOOSA/ UN-SPIDER, USGS (via webconference) (US)
Meeting Summary
The 2015 spring meeting was the second IWG-SEM meeting, which was organized as a combination of a physical and web-based conference. 23 participants joined the meeting in person or via web-video-conference.
The agenda included a review and lessons learned of the Nepal earthquake, collaborative mapping, the issuing of the IWG-SEM Emergency Mapping Guidelines 2.0 and the earthquake chapter, and the IWG-SEM GeoRSS.
The detailed meeting outcomes as well as the slides of the presentations are available here.
