main areas conference will cover
Natural and man-made disasters
Flash-floods
Sandstorms
Earthquakes
Risk assessment for epidemic diseases
Hurricanes
Droughts
Wars
Oil spills
Accidental /toxic gas release
Other
Disaster management and EWSs
Concept
Function
Applications
Integrated geoinformatics technologies to support decision makers before, during and after crises
Geoinformatics and modeling
Risk assessment
Prediction
Environmental sensitivity indices
Site suitability (optimal allocation of new developments)
Post-disaster monitoring (change detection)
National disaster management policies and plans:
Case studies
Panel discussion