Recent Developments in Disaster Management, Mitigation and Planning:
Workshop instructors:
• Dr. Hamid Assilzadeh
• Dr. Zhinong Zhong
• Mr. Ala Kassab
• Maya Nand Jha
Description of the Workshop:
This workshop is designed to give participants information about current issues in disaster management,
mitigation and planning. The workshop introduces the latest development in Geomatics and web-based applications
for integrating disaster management components and facilitating operational multi-agency system framework for
disaster management. We discuss how to generate a single umbrella of control and administration for centralizing
efficient disaster management. We introduce a scalable infrastructure for disaster monitoring and real time management
based on a GIS event-driven system.