ISDE8 joint CAS-TWAS/GEO special session on digital Earth for disaster risk mitigation

The special session is co-organized by the CAS-TWAS Center of Excellence on Space Technology for Disaster Mitigation (CoE STDM) and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO).

The session focuses on advanced technologies (e.g., Earth observation and Digital Earth) for Disaster Risk Management in developing countries. The aim of this special session is to bring together experts in this field and to foster exchange of new ideas.

Papers on any of the following and related topics can be submitted to the special session:

• Earth observations and digital Earth as tools for disaster management;
• Information systems for hydro-meteorological extremes (including floods and droughts);
• Geohazards monitoring, alert, and risk assessment;
• Wildfire risk assessment and forecasting;
• Desertification and land degradation;
• Agricultural disaster;
• Tsunami and typhoon monitoring and early warning systems;