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Introduction
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Disaster management and early warning systems (EWSs) are efficient tools
to face and mitigate the potential impacts of natural and man-made disasters. Geographic
information systems (GIS) and remotely sensed data are essential tools for the development
of disaster management and early warning systems. Utilizing remotely sensed data,
such as satellite imagery and aerial photographs, allows us to map varied terrain,
such as vegetation, water bodies, and geology, both in space and over time. Satellite
images give a synpotic overview and provide very useful enviromental information,
at a wide range of scales, from entire continents to a few meters in detail.
Many types of disasters, such as floods, droughts, famines, cyclones, volcanic
eruptions, etc., have precursorscthat satellites can detect. Thus remote sensing
allows such events to be monitored from the time of their occurance. Space technology
plays a crucial role in the efficient mitigation and management of disasters. Satellite
imagery gives us a very powerful tool for the prediction, and thus warning, of potential
natural and human-induced hazards.
The challenge for contemporary risk and disaster management is to establish
means by which the comprehensive and multi-sectoral participation of professional
disciplines and public authorities can contribute to the continually shifting matrix
of interests, needs and responsibilites in modern societies.
So, the National Scientific and Technical Information Center (NSTIC)
at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) is preparing to hold the
1st Regional Conference on Geoinformatics: Disaster Management and Early Warning
Systems, with the aim of transferring knowledge and experience regarding the utilization
of geoinformatics applications on national, regional and international levels to
support decision and policy makers and planners in the management of natural and
man-made disasters.
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Organized by
Kuwait Institute
Kuwait Foundation for the
for Scientific Research
Advancement of Sciences
KISR
KFAS
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In Cooperation with
National Authority
for Remote
Sensing and
Space Sciences
NARSS - Egypt
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