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Day 1 - July 8th, 2008 |
Space-based Information for
Comprehensive Disaster Management - A CDERA Perspective
by Nicole Alleyne - CDERA |
Central America
Probabilistic Risk Assessment
by Edward Anderson - World Bank |
Servir: A
Platform for Space-based Monitoring & Disaster Response
for Mesoamerica and the Wider Caribbean
by Emil A. Cherrington - Water Centre
for the Humid Tropics of Latin America & the Caribbean (CATHALAC) |
Opportunities & Challenges
of GIS & RS in Disaster Management: The Case for
Caribbean SIDS
by Ian King - UNDP, Barbados & the
OECS |
International
Charter: Space and Major Disasters
by Ahmed Mahmood, PHD - Manager
Missions, Satellite Operations Canadian Space Agency
Charter Executive Secretariat |
EMWIN Overview
by Santos Rodriguez |
USAID OFDA Imagery
Support Mechanisms & Options
by Nate Smith - GIS Coordinator -
Office of U.S. Foreigner Disaster Assistance |
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"The United Nations
Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster
Management & Emergency Response" |
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Day 2 - July 9th, 2008 |
UNEP-DEWA Initiative
on Applications of Earth Observation - Technologies for
Environmental Resource Management
by Silvia Giada - UNEP |
High
Resolution Satellite Imagery Informaiton
by Craig Batstone - Managing Director
- GeoOrbis Inc. |
DHS-Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
by Marie E. Gonzalez - DHS-FEMA Region
II - Caribbean Area Division |
Tsunami "El Peligro
Olvidado" The Forgotten Danger
by Lorna V. Inniss, PHD - Chair, ICG
CARIBE/EWS, CZMU, Barbados |
The Anguilla
National Warning System
by Elizabeth Klute,
Director/Consultant - Deparment of Disaster Mangement,
Anguilla |
Radars & other
Weather Observations for Disaster Preparedness
by Chester Layne, Barbados Met. Office
on behalf of Caribbean Meteorlogical Organization |
GEO
Disaster Management Pilot Project in the Caribbean
by Ahmed Mahmood & Guy Seguin -
Canadian Space Agency |
The Disaster Risk
Reduction Centre: An insight
by Maurice Mason - UWI Institute for
Sustainable Development |
Facilitating
Disaster Management and Mitigation: An NSDI Approach
by Tricia-Anne McLean - GIS Special
Project Manager & Nikolai Thomas, Planning Analyst |
Geographic Information
Systems for Prevention of Catastrophes through Floods in
the Dominican Republic
by Quinta Ana Perez |
Use of Satellite
Imagery in Monitor Earthquakes and Volcanoes in the
Eastern Caribbean
by Roderick Stewart - Volcano
Seismologist, Seismic Research, UWI |
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Day 3 - July 10th,
2008 |
The
Socio-Economic, Health & Psychological Impacts of the
2005 Flood in Guyana & the Urgent Need for Space-based
Solutions
by Paulette Bynoe, PHD, Director (ag)
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences |
Using GIS to
Enhance Comprehensive Disaster Management in the
Caribbean
by Valrie Grant-Harry, GISP - GIS
Consultant |
Toward Effective Development
& Use of a Space-based Technology for Disaster Risk
Management in the Caribbean Region
by Jacob Opadeyi |
Haiti: Towards a Global
Observatory of the Territory
by Boby Emmanuel Piard - CNIGS |
Globecomm First Responder Equipment
by Christopher Wu - GSI |
Mapping for the
massess: low-cost or free sensing applied to disaster
risk reduction
by Richard Teeuw |
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