Gi4DM 2010 Conference Torino, Italy, February 2010

18 July 2009, 3:39pm

Gi4DM 2010 Conference
February 2-4, 2010
Centro Congressi “Torino Incontra”, Torino - Italy

6th Gi4DM Conference on Geomatics for Crisis Management

First Announcement and Call for Papers

Conference Theme

Remote Sensing and Geo-Information for Environmental Emergencies

Geomatics technologies are able to support management and recovery in the aftermath of manmade and natural disasters. However, disaster management also poses big challenges in all aspects of the geo-information cycle, from data acquisition, processing, management and delivery. For the sixth time, the International Symposium on Geo-Information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM) brings together researchers, developers, data providers and users from all over the world to discuss these challenges.

Papers that deal with any aspect of geomatics technologies suitable for crisis management are invited. Authors should focus on the methodologies, tools, functionality, and/or interfaces that are being or should be provided to National and/or International Organizations involved with crisis response and management.

Invitation is also open for contributions that cover crisis management in any phase, intersection of phases, and/or integration of phases of Planning, Training, Mitigation, Detection, Alerting, Response, Recovery, and Assessment.

The language of the conference is English.

ISPRS and Gi4DM

Anticipating the obvious and growing importance of Geo-Information for disaster and risk management a separate group of researchers, professionals and vendors have begun a worldwide discussion on collection, management, analysis, sharing and visualization of geo-information. The Gi4DM is coordinated by the ISPRS Ad hoc Committee on Risk and Disaster Management, Working Group 1 (Disaster) of the ISPRS Commission VIII (Remote Sensing and Policies) and Working Group 8 (3D Spatial Data Integration for Disaster Management and Environmental Monitoring) of the ISPRS Commission IV (Geodatabases and Digital Mapping).

Five editions of these symposia have taken place in Delft, The Netherlands, March 2005, in Goa, India, September 2006, in Toronto, Canada, May 2007, in Harbin, China, February 2008 and in Prague, Czech Republic, January 2009. The fundamental goal of the symposia was to begin a dialogue on the disaster management problems in their entirety by considering geospatial technologies applicable for emergency and disaster management, as well as particular user requirements for spatial data and standards.

Conference Topics

The indicative topics of interest will at least cover the fields of enterprise crisis management, public security and crisis management in city development, geo-information systems for disaster management, industrial crisis management, incident management systems, etc. The following themes are for reference:

• User Requirements
• Monitoring and processing
• Early Warning systems
• Early Impact systems
• Spatial Data Infrastructure

Important Deadlines

• Abstract Submission Deadline: July 31, 2009
• Notification of Abstract Acceptance: August 31, 2009
• Full paper submission: November 30, 2009
• Notification of Full Paper Acceptance: December 15, 2009
• Early Registration Deadline: July 31, 2009

The Conference registration fee is 350 Euro.

On site registration: 450 euro. Students: 150 Euro.

Conference web site

Venue web site - Centro Congressi Torino Incontra, Torino, Italy.

Geo: International