The 5th Spatial Sociocultural Knowledge Workshop - Enhancing situational awareness and understanding for stabilisation and disaster relief operations

Aim

To provide a forum to bring together experts from the stabilisation, disaster relief and geospatial communities to develop the case for a shared understanding of how geography can be used to support stabilisation and disaster relief operations.

 Objectives

To investigate the need for a shared geospatial framework in anticipation of stabilisation and disaster relief operations

• What is required
• What exists
• How to organise it
• Who authorises it

To investigate the challenges in achieving a shared geography during the planning, conduct and evaluation of stabilisation and disaster relief operations

• How to provide and share it
• How to get it to those who need it most quickly
• How to ensure it is relevant, current, can be updated, and still authoritative
• How to make it available to non-expert users