Event Summary
Session Leads
- Stephane Chalifoux, Canadian Space Agency
- Andrew Eddy, Athena Global
Speakers
- Flood Pilot: Stephane Chalifoux (CSA); Bob Kuligowski (NOAA); Stu Frye (NASA)
- Seismic Hazards Pilot: Theodora Papadopoulou, (Argans Ltd/ESA); Philippe Bally (ESA); Stefano Salvi (INGV)
- Volcano Hazards Pilot: Fabrizio Ferrucci (The Open University); Mike Poland (USGS); Simona Zoffoli (ASI)
- Recovery Observatory: Catherine Proy (CNES); Steven Hosford (CNES); Patrice Benarroche (CNES); Andrew Eddy (Athena Global/CNES)
- GEO-DARMA (Data Access for Risk Management): Ivan Petiteville (ESA)
- GEO Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratories (GSNL): Stefano Salvi (INGV)
- Sang-Ho Yun (NASA)
Description
The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) recently initiated three thematic pilots on floods, seismic hazards and volcanoes, and is currently planning a fourth on landslides. These activities aimed to showcase innovations in the application of satellite data to full-cycle disaster risk management (DRM), with a strong focus on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) activities. The event aimed to show how users can overcome the challenges associated to accessing and exploiting satellite data to support hazard mapping and risk assessment. The DRM pilots are providing first demonstrations of this with local and regional levels disaster risk reduction activities that are scalable and can be adapted to different geographical and capacity contexts. CEOS Agencies are supporting the Disaster Recovery Observatory which will collect satellite imagery, generate monitoring products and provide an informatics platform for recovery partners to collaborate in the reconstruction effort. The GEO-DARMA (Data Access for Risk Management) initiative (included in GEO Work Programme 2016), will facilitate the sustained provision of EO-based risk information products and services to decision-makers. The session highlighted success stories from the past 18 months and open the discussion on how to fast track successful satellite data use for widespread uptake within the DRR community.
