I5PRS
UNISPACE 111 - ISPRS/EARSeL Workshop on
“Remote Sensing for the Detection, Monitoring
and Mitigation of Natural Disasters”
2:30-5:30 pm, 22 July 1999, VIC Room B
Vienna, Austria
u Many remote sensing methods have been developed to assess the potential of geological hazards and to appraise the damages. These
include methods for the integration of multi-sensor data to improve lithologic mapping in tropical environments, landslide mapping and
analysis of volcanic and associated hazards.
□ Satellite remote sensing has been demonstrated to be beneficial for identifying environmental indicators for producing risk maps of
desertification, soil erosion and désalinisation, deforestation overgrazing and over-development.
□ Early warning systems rely on satellite imaging systems for detecting early stages of flooding, forest fires, volcanic eruptions and some
pollutants.
□ The detection effects and characterisation of hazardous waste sites requires high spatial and spectral resolution remote sensing from
visible, infrared and radar satellite images.
□ Satellite data are used operationally to lessen the impacts of natural disasters such as tropical cyclones, flash floods, heavy snowstonns,
volcanic ash clouds, sea ice, coastal water toxic effects and harmful algal blooms.
Many techniques using Earth observation data are being used effectively to manage natural disasters but more effort is needed to make
disaster prediction a reality and to plan responses. More research is needed to integrate and effectively exploit new data sources.
(Relevant Paragraphs in UNISPACE III Draft Report A/CONF.184.3 are ^34, 41-42, 44, 69, 74-75, 79-80, 82, 86, 90-91, 94-99, 102, 106-
119, 127, 136-139, 301,302,339)
ISPRS/EARSeL Workshop on
“Remote Sensing for the Detection, Monitoring and Mitigation of Natural Disasters”
Organised by:
Lawrence W. Fritz (President ISPRS) and Madeleine Godefroy (EARSeL Secretariat)
Co-Chairs:
Prof. Ian Dowman (UCL, United Kingdom)
Dr. Lucien Wald (Ecole des Mines de Paris, France)
Natural Disasters - Remote Sensing Capabilities and Applications in a Wide Context
Preben Gudmandsen
Technical University of Denmark
DK-2800 Lyngby, DENMARK
Tel: +45 45 88 14 44, Fax: +45 45 93 16 34
Space Technology and Earthquake Hazard Management
Jerome Béquignon (ESA, Italy): European Space Agency
Via Galileo Galilei, 1-00044 Frascati - ITALY
Jerome.Bequignon@esrin.esa.it
Monitoring Oil Spills from Space: State of the Art and Perspectives
Dr. François Cauneau
Centre d'Energétique, Ecole des Mines de Paris
B.P. 207, F-06904 Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE
Fax: +33 (0)4 93 95 7535 E-mail: cauneau@cenerg.cma.fr
Natural Hazards of geological Origin: Erosion, Land Degradation/Desertification, Volcanoes - The UNESCO/IUGS Geological
Application of Remote Sensing (GARS)-Programme
Prof Dietrich Bannert
B.G.R., Stilleweg 2, P. O. Box 51 01 53, D-30631 Hannover, GERMANY
Tel +49 511 6433 007 Fax: +49 511 643 2304 E-mail: dietrich.bannert@bgr.de
International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXII Part 7C2, UN1SPACE III. Vienna, 1999
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