ISPRS ICWG III/IVa

Disaster Management

Mission/Scope

ISPRS Working Group ICWG III/IVa on disaster management aims to contribute to an understanding of reducing existing risk, preventing the creation of new risk, and enhancing resilience mainly exploiting remotely sensing data and geospatial data services. ICWG III/IVa fosters cutting-edge research and development on the impact of global climate change on the frequency and the impact of natural hazards and disasters such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides, epidemics, and so on. Concerning the 5-10 years vision of Global Geospatial Information Management, Sendai Framework, and the UNDRR, our target is to contribute to catastrophe prediction and assessment (i.e., pre-during-and-post), vulnerability and risk estimation. As a result, the activities of the ICWG will help reduce loss, mitigate, prevent future damage to a community, reinforce infrastructures, create a more robust and resilient environment, and meet SDGs 2030 agenda. ICWG III/IVa also intends to promote involvement with stakeholders and communities that require timely and adequate geospatial information to aid disaster response decision-making.

The focus will be on empowering how to build a better environment for future generations through GeoAI challenges emerging ideas for climate and environmental changes and disaster resilience to organize and develop new applications and implement novel technologies, algorithms, and Geo Apps effectively. However, there is a huge demand for integrating remote sensing, artificial intelligence approaches for geospatial data, social media, and the Internet of Things (IoT). As a result, the ICWG III/IVa invites team members and everyone to help improve monitoring, analysis, forecasting, and assessing the environmental implications of climate change and disasters.

To this purpose, the ICWG III/IVa contributes to research; and solutions addressing global-regional-local concerns related to climate and environmental change, predicting, modelling, mapping disasters, and community resilience. By socializing and sharing experiences related to the use of remote sensing data and geospatial data for disaster management among the different country members to bring practical insights, updates, and verified successful cases to guide smart decisions, make us more empathic and a more resilient community. As a result, we will organize technical events and regular ICWG III/IVa meetings. We will also contribute to developing open access datasets and new ideas, recommend APIs and organize international GeoAI challenges for disasters management to determine the best solutions and experiences by performing new algorithms and designs for various emerging applications. Furthermore, the ICWG III/IVa will maintain close collaboration with other Working Groups like WG III/5, WG III/7, WG III/10, ICWG I/II and Vb within commissions and organizations such as UN-GGIM, UN Disaster Services, UNDRR, UN Open GIS, ICA, FIG, and IEEE-TGRS.

 

Working Group Officers

Chair

Adam/Saeid Pirasteh, ChairAdam/Saeid Pirasteh
 
Geospatial Intelligence and Mapping (GIM) Lab
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario
CANADA N2L 3G1
+1-416-835-5930

 

Co-Chair

Masood Varshosaz, Co-ChairMasood Varshosaz
 
Department of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Geomatics Engineering Faculty
K.N. Toosi University of Technology
Tehran 15433-19967
IRAN
+98 21 88786212

 

Co-Chair

Fabiola D. Yépez-Rincón, Co-ChairFabiola D. Yépez-Rincón
 
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL)
Calle Pedro de Alba s/n
Centro, C.P. 64000
San Nicolás de los Garza, N.L.
MEXICO
+(81) 14424400

 

Secretary

Weilian Li, SecretaryWeilian Li
 
Computational Methods Lab,
HafenCity University Hamburg
Henning-Voscherau-Platz 1
20457 Hamburg
GERMANY
+49 40 428 27 - 5328

 


Supporters

Supporter
Fabio Giulio Tonolo, SupporterFabio Giulio Tonolo
 
Department of Architecture and Design
Politecnico di Torino
Viale Mattioli, 39
10125 Torino
ITALY
+39-011-090-4362

 

Supporter
Nina Merkle, SupporterNina Merkle
 
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), German Aerospace Center, Earth Observation Center
Remote Sensing Technology Institute
Photogrammetry and Image Analysis
Oberpfaffenhofen
82234 Wessling
GERMANY
+49 8153 28 2165

 

Supporter
Samira Badrloo, SupporterSamira Badrloo
 
Department of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Geomatics Engineering Faculty
K.N. Toosi University of Technology
Tehran 15433- 19967
IRAN
+98 21 88786212

 

Supporter
Nelly Lucero Ramírez Serrato, SupporterNelly Lucero Ramírez Serrato
 
Institute of Geophysics
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Circuito de la investigación Científica s/n
Ciudad Universitaria
Delegación Coyoacán
C.P. 04510, Ciudad de México
MEXICO
+818015121

 

Supporter
Vidhya Lakshmi Sivakumar, SupporterVidhya Lakshmi Sivakumar
 
Department of Geotechnics and Geomatics
Saveetha School of Engineering
Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences
Chennai
Tamil Nadu
INDIA, PIN 602105
+91- 44 2680 1050

 

Supporter
Syed Mohd. Asghar Rizvi, SupporterSyed Mohd. Asghar Rizvi
 
IDRS & GISA , AMU Aligarh
H.No. 4/1175 -003A-Zone-01
Syed colony
New S.S. Nagar
Civil Line Dodhpur
Aligarh-202002
INDIA
+ 91-9897585041

 

Supporter
Judith Ley García, SupporterJudith Ley García
 
Edificio de Investigación y Posgrado
3er. Piso Unidad Universitaria
Blvd. Benito Juárez s/n
Mexicali B.C. México
C.P. 21280
MEXICO

 

Supporter
Armin Moghimi, SupporterArmin Moghimi
 
Ludwig Franzius Institute of Hydraulic, Estuarine and Coastal Engineering
Leibniz University Hannover
Nienburger Straße 4
30167 Hannover
GERMANY
+49 15752449465

 

Supporter
Muhammad Hassaan Farooq Butt, SupporterMuhammad Hassaan Farooq Butt
 
Emumba Private Limited
Plot # 189-A
Korang Road, I-10/3 I 10/3 I-10, Islamabad
Islamabad Capital Territory
PAKISTAN
+92-304-7738372

 

Advisor
Jonathan Li, AdvisorJonathan Li
 
Department of Geography and Environmental Management
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario
CANADA N2L 3G1
+1-519-888-4567, ext. 34504

 

Advisor
Amor Laaribi, AdvisorAmor Laaribi
 
UN Retiree
Former UN-GGIM Coordinator
International Freelance Consultant
New York Area
USA
+1 914-357-0765

 

Advisor
Leila Farzinpur, AdvisorLeila Farzinpur
 
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
Ontario
CANADA
+1 (416) 978-0005

 

Advisor
Rifaat Abdalla, AdvisorRifaat Abdalla
 
Department of Earth Sciences
College of Science
Sultan Qaboos University
P.O. Box 471, PC: 123, Al-Khodh
SULTANATE OF OMAN
+968-241-46847

 

Advisor
Sisi Zlatanova, AdvisorSisi Zlatanova
 
UNSW Built Environment
University of New South Wales
Red Centre Building
Kensington Campus
Sydney NSW 2052
AUSTRALIA
+61 4 2449 2894

 

Advisor
Herve Yesou, AdvisorHerve Yesou
 
ICUBE_SERTIT
Telecom Physics Strasbourg
University of Strasbourg
bv Sebastien Brant
BP10413
67412 Illkirchgraffenstaden
FRANCE
+3368854643

 

Advisor
Yao Sun, AdvisorYao Sun
 
Chair of Data Science in Earth Observation
Technical University of Munich
Arcisstr. 21
80333 Munich
GERMANY
+49 89 289 22676

 


Terms of Reference

  • Help bring partners, governments, and communities together to reduce disaster risk and loss exploiting remote sensing data and geospatial information; and to help ensure a safer, more sustainable future by sharing knowledge with policymakers and decision-makers.

  • Promote the advancement and research of the state-of-the-art GeoAI techniques for disaster management and disaster resilience, including machine learning, deep learning, cloud computing, knowledge graphs, early warning systems, monitoring, preparedness, algorithmic data analytics, and algorithms for human detection from earth observations and UAVs/MAVs images and videos, Geo Apps (applications), and so on

  • Investigate a new generation of technologies and their integrated systems for disaster response, modelling, and mapping.

  • Look into the use of geoinformatics in risk communication and strategies, such as data sharing, public engagement and participation, and social media.

  • Investigate natural hazards & disaster simulation and multi-dimensional visualization, including numerical simulation, pre-during-and-post disaster and damage assessment & response, vulnerability and risk estimation, risk mapping, and 2D/3D digital representation.

  • Explore extended reality applications in disasters, including scalability, localization, immersive analysis, and human injured detection from drone images.

  • Investigate disaster information extraction and monitoring, including disaster environment, infrastructure and critical assets, public awareness, and how geographic decision support systems may help with disaster management and risk reduction.

  • Organise technical events. For example, in the interdisciplinary field of remote sensing and disaster management, organise, develop, and conduct supporting educational activities (training courses, workshops, webinars, etc.). The educational activities will contribute to advance the education and professional development of both seasoned and early-stage remote sensing scientists and engineers.

  • Contribute to open access datasets (e.g. UAV image datasets of flood) and to conduct International Disaster Challenges competitions for good GeoAI disaster ideas, including algorithms, App designs, etc.

  • Organize an online catalog of initiatives, remote sensing data and platforms, APIs, SaaS, toolkits, and courses relevant and applicable in the disaster management cycle.

  • Collaborate with other WGs and ICA, FIG, UN-GGIM, UN-Open GIS, and IEEE­GRSS, GEO, JBGIS, ICSU GeoUnions, IRDR.

  • Develop advanced algorithms for detecting humans post-disaster and rescue using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images.


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