Training provider: NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training Programme (ARSET)
Description: Climate change is not only changing the location, frequency, and severity of environmental extremes and hazards, but also the baseline spatial and temporal patterns that have served as the basis for land use planning, the design of infrastructure, and the development of construction standards and practices. To anticipate the emerging impacts on communities, we must improve understanding of exposed assets, including the built infrastructure and its characteristics such as structure type, use, occupancy, compliance with engineering standards, and replacement cost. GIS databases track exposure on a wide variety of scales, formats, and levels of detail, yet aggregating these data for risk assessment typically results in skewed datasets that present a view of risk that is limited to known assets. In this short course, we will cover the basics of natural hazard risk modelling and exposure development with a focus on fusing data from multiple datasets expressly for the purposes of risk assessment. We will also present examples applying the techniques to applications related to flood risk assessment, climate adaptation, and earthquake modelling.
Objective: By the end of this training, attendees will be able to:
Date and time: October 3, 5, & 10, 2023
English session: 14:00-16:00 UTC (16:00-18:00 CEST)
Spanish session: 18:00-20:00 UTC (20:00-22:00 CEST)
Format: Three 2-hour sessions
Session 1: Development of regional exposure data with Earth Observations (Tuesday, 3 October 2023)
Session 2: Development of site-specific exposure data with Earth Observations (Thursday, 5 October 2023)
Session 3: Assessing Utility and Communicating Uncertainty (Tuesday, 10 October 2023)
Languages: English and Spanish
Prerequisites: Proficiency in GIS and basic understanding of disaster risk management is required. Experience in the fundamentals of remote sensing or equivalent experience is desirable. Participants with no experience in remote sensing are encouraged to view this course prior to the training.
Target audience: Advanced level students interested in risk assessment and climate change adaptation, emergency managers, risk modelers, GIS analysts, EO researchers and analysts, structural engineers, climate adaptation researchers and planners.
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