The Data Working Group, together with the GEOSS Platform and the GEO Knowledge Hub teams, will host a two-day workshop on Open Data and Open Knowledge from June 15-16, 2023. The event will provide the GEO community with an opportunity to discuss technical advances, challenges, and solutions related to open knowledge practices. The event follows the endorsement of the GEO Statement on Open Knowledge in 2021 and seeks to empower all users to access and use open EO-based applications in the various engagement priorities and main conventions.

The objectives of the workshop are to highlight the ongoing efforts of the GEO community towards open and reproducible knowledge, promote open knowledge applications to the youth community, as well as to less represented communities, and align the GEO community and its activities with the open and reproducible knowledge vision. Furthermore, the event aims to explore and discuss technological advances that facilitate the implementation of…

The aim of this Flood Management Course is to provide basic principles and technical overview for flood management

Content:

Basics of flood hazards

•Meteorology
•Flood generation processes
•Sediment transport processes

Flood hazard evaluation (scenarios: inundation, alluviation, erosion)

•Flood hazard modelling
•Flood hazard mapping: hazard map, hazard index & intensity map

Flood management strategies:

•Integrated risk management
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The Tech4Dev Conference is the biennial flagship event of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development hosted by CODEV at EPFL. The Conference focuses on the potential of technology solutions to advance inclusive social and economic development in the Global South.Tech4Dev 2018 puts the challenges and the potential of the Global South in the centre of discussions reflected by its title Voices of the Global South. 

This conference provides opportunities to:

• Present research at a unique multidisciplinary Conference focused on innovative technology for social impact in the Global South.
• Network across disciplines and fields of technology, to promote the development, deployment, adaptation, and scaling of new solutions for the Global South.
• Identify opportunities for collaboration with diverse stakeholders – academics, students, engineers, entrepreneurs…

Applied Geography for a better future

Formerly called the GIS for the United Nations and International Community Conference, this revamped event explores how Esri’s ArcGIS platform empowers the international community to achieve the global goals. The event is co-hosted by UNITAR’s Operational Satellite Application Programme (UNOSAT), and Esri.

This year’s conference features an engaging, interactive environment that drives collaboration with your peers – and focuses on applying GIS to: people, planet, prosperity, and peace. There will be sessions with topics of interest to management, technical workshops, and a new track engaging the private sector in using GIS for sustainability. Join us for an inspiring Opening session followed by peer-to-peer exchanges, lightning sessions, and networking events—all created to empower your organization to achieve your goals. With an agenda full of immersive sessions and social networking…

On 26 December 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean caused a devastating tsunami that killed around 230,000 people in 14 countries. It remains one of the deadliest disasters in recent human history.

The people who lived through this tragedy are forever changed by it. That is why this year, World Tsunami Awareness Day (WTAD) is honouring the memory of the Indian Ocean Tsunami on its 20th anniversary and highlighting major advances on protecting people since.

This exhibition tells the powerful accounts of tsunami survivors alongside contemporary artworks that capture the sea change of perspective that the aftermath brought, with unprecedented global collaboration on disaster resilience. Everyone must be tsunami ready - recognise the warning signs, be protected by early warning systems and be able to act quickly and get to high ground. We must have resilient infrastructure so livelihoods are not destroyed and build back better when tsunamis hit.

Tsunamis are rare…

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-20301 was adopted by 187 United Nations (UN) Member States on 18 March 2015, at the Fourth UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai, Japan, and endorsed by the UN General Assembly in June 2015, with the expected outcome of a “substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health and in the economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and countries” over the following 15 years.

During the negotiations, countries and partners highlighted the need to:

1. Continue to invest in, develop, maintain and strengthen people-centred, end-to-end early warning systems
2. Promote the application of simple and low cost early warning equipment and facilities
3. Broaden the dissemination channels for early warning information to facilitate early action

Countries also called for the further development of…