Conference Program

Date Hour Session Room Chair
02 Feb 09:30 - 10:30 Opening Session Plenary 1
Room Cavour
Piero Boccardo, Politecnico di Torino
Greetings from AuthoritiesMercedes Bresso, President of the Piedmont Region
Francesco Profumo, Chancellor of the Politecnico di Torino
Scientific ReferencesFulvio Rinaudo, Alessandro Capra, Applied Geomatics
Marco Marchetti, Gherardo Chirici, Davide Travaglini, Italian Journal of Remote Sensing
Mario Gomarasca, Basics of Geomatics
Horst Kremers, CODATA WG
02 Feb 11:00 - 12:30 The International Organization approach to Disaster Management Plenary 2
Room Cavour
Piero Boccardo, Politecnico di Torino
Role of Geospatial Professionals in Risk and Disaster Management and Preventing Natural Catastrophes - An ISPRS PerspectiveOrhan Altan, ISPRS President
Support from Space: The United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER)Robert Backhaus, UNOOSA
Geomatics and humanitarian operations: a WFP experienceGiorgio Sartori, WFP
02 Feb 14:00 - 15:30 Landslide Monitoring and Data Processing Oral Parallel Session 1.1
Room Einaudi
Marco Giardino, University of Turin
Innovative integrated airborne and wireless systems for landslide monitoringPaolo Sterzai, Michela Vellico, Matteo Berti, Franco Coren, Alessandro Corsini, Alberto Rosi, Paolo Mora, Franco Zambonelli
A Popular Usage-based Hazard Warning SystemDevanjan Bhattacharya, Jayanta Kumar Ghosh, Piero Boccardo, Narendra Kumar Samadhiya
The potential of object-oriented and cognitive methods for rapid detection and characterisation of landslidesNorman Kerle, Tapas R. Matha
Combined fotogrametric flight to determinate sliding and fault in the area of Cariblanco, Costa RicaCarmen Sanchez Murillo, Marcos Martinez Fernandez, Francisco Borrego Piorno, Luis Saenz Sanchez, Javier Bonatti Gonzalez, Alfonso Gomez Molina
Coupling Geoinformation and Simulation Systems for the Early Warning of LandslidesEva Nuhn, Wolfgang Reinhardt
Using GIS and remote sensing to monitor the natural recovery of landslide areas in ThailandWichai Pantanahiran
02 Feb 14:00 - 15:30 Thematic and National SDI Oral Parallel Session 1.2
Room Cavour
Andrea Ajmar, ITHACA
GIS-based tool for network critical infrastructure identification in EuropeCarmelo Di Mauro, Sergio Contini, Jean-Pierre Nordvik
GIS system for emergency events managementAmmatzia Peled
Geospatial information on landslides and floods in ItalyIvan Marchesini, Vinicio Balducci, Gabriele Tonelli, Mauro Rossi, Fausto Guzzetti
Lessons, impact and future prospects after the implementation of a disaster-risk management SDI in the Andean CommunitySalvador Bayarri, Yini Capo
The GIIDA project: a spatial information infrastructure for environmental data sharingStefano Nativi, Paolo Mazzetti, Franco Guzzetti, Alessandro Oggioni, Nicola Pirrone, Rosalia Santoleri, Gianni Tartari, Angelo Viola
Designing web-enabled services to provide damage estimation maps caused by natural hazardsFederico Vladimir Gutierrez, Miguel Ángel Manso, Dominik Lang, Monica Wachowicz, Miguel Ángel Bernabé, Wilfried Strauch
02 Feb 14:00 - 15:30 Data Acquisition for Early Impact Stage Oral Parallel Session 1.3
Room Giolitti
Fulvio Rinaudo, Politecnico di Torino
Data modelling for emergency responseArta Dilo, Sisi Zlatanova
GIMPHI: a new integration approach for early impact assessmentDavide Marenchino, Mattia De Agostino, Andrea Lingua, Francesco Nex, Marco Piras
Fast information acquisition on building features from digital aerial imagesCaprioli Mauro, Figorito Benedetto, Tarantino Eufemia
Procedures for fast orientation of Leica ADS40 imageryVittorio Casella, Marica Franzini, Barbara Padova
Integrated monitoring system of Valoria Landslise (Modena, Italy)Bertacchini Eleonora, Boni Emanuele, Capra Alessandro, Castagnetti Cristina, Casula Giuseppe, Dubbini Marco, Pesci Arianna, Corsini Alessandro
GIS and Geomatics for disaster management and Emergency relief: a proactive response to natural hazardsM. Giardino, L. Perotti, M. Lanfranco, G. Perrone
02 Feb 16:00 - 17:30 Earthquake Early Impact Oral Parallel Session 2
Room Cavour
Luciano Surace, ASITA President
Earthquake forecasting: a possible solution considering the GPS ionospheric delayMattia De Agostino, Marco Piras
Evaluation of the damages caused by seismic events: first tests on supporting traditional multispectral classification with DSMValerio Baiocchi, Raffaella Brigante, Fabio Radicioni
Radar remote sensing for damage assessment: case study on L'Aquila, Italy, 6th April 2009 earthquakeDiego Polli, Fabio Dell'Acqua
Support and Confidence Parameters to Induct Decision Rules to Classify Tehran’s Seismic VulnerabilityHadis samadi alinia, Mahmoud reza Delavar, Yiyu yao
Towards Improved Risk Assessment: Mapping the Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Human Exposure to Earthquake Hazard in LisbonSergio Freire, Christoph Aubrecht
02 Feb 16:00 - 17:30 Early Warning and Impact Systems Poster Session 1
Underground Floor
Franca Disabato, Politecnico di Torino
Risk assessment on landslides processes of the North-East of Lake Sevan (on the pattern of village Avazan)Hasmik Balyan
Monitoring survey for testing the stability of a hydraulic engineeringDomenica Costantino, Maria Giuseppa Angelini, Giovanni Caprino
Geomatic approach in avalanche monitoring: the Varaita valley (Cuneo - Italy) case studyDanilo Godone, Margherita Maggioni, Massimiliano Icardi, Corrado Faletto, Michele Freppaz, Gabriele Garnero, Ermanno Zanini
Belvedere glacier monitoring: a multidisciplinary approachDanilo Godone, Franco Godone, Andrea Tamburini
The Geographical Information System (WebGIS) for the management of emergencies in Calabria, ItalyFrancesco Manti
A High Effective Monitoring design for Structural Deformation with the Anneal Neural NetworkY. M. Chang, C. H. Chen, K. T. Chang
Building The System Dynamic Models for Disaster Emergency Response System in The Long Highway Tunnel – A Fire CaseK.T. Chang, M. C. Teng, C. C. Yang, Y. W. Chang
Task-based and Geo-based Management of Emergency SituationsManfred Bortenschlager, Francesco Manti, Massimo Mecella
Flooding areas of Ofanto river using advanced topographic and hydraulic approachesLia Romano, Umberto Fratino, Antonio R. Di Santo
Geomatic training experiences for a high vulnerability cultural heritage itemAntonia Spanò, Erik Costamagna
The Assisi landslide monitoring: report on a multi-year activity based on geomatic techniquesGuido Fastellini, Fabio Radicioni, Aurelio Stoppini
The role of Data Mining techniques in the interoperability of GIIDAStefania D’Arpa, Vito Felice Uricchio, Emanuele Barca, Gianni Tartari
Integrated WebGIS for flood risk management with mobile and GPS technology within Open Source systemGiuseppe Tito Aronica, Roberta Maisano, Nathalie Morey
Comparision of LISS-III and AWiFS Sensors-Derived Spectral Indices for Wheat Yield Estimation of Rupnagar district of Punjab, IndiaJoydeep Mukherjee, Girmay Gebru, Anil Snood, S.K. Bal, R.K. Mahey
02 Feb 20:00 Ice Breaker Cocktail Museum of Cinema @ Mole Antonelliana
03 Feb 09:00 - 10:30 GIS Solutions for Emergency Response and Preparedness Plenary 3
Room Cavour
Orhan Altan, ISPRS President
Leading the way in open, interoperable enterprise solutions for Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs): the Intergraph’s approachClaudio Mingrino, Intergraph
ESRI contribution to disaster managementPaul Christin, ESRI
03 Feb 11:00 - 12:30 Global SDI Oral Parallel Session 3.1
Room Cavour
Ammatzia Peled, ISPRS Second Vice President
High availability systems for Geographic InformationAndrea Ajmar, Olivier Terzo
Mash-up or SDI: appropriate mapping tools for emergency situation roomsTom De Groeve, Beate Stollberg, Luca Vernaccini, Brian Dohorty
Exploring ontology potential in emergency managementZhengjie Fan, Sisi Zlatanova
The strategy on the Test-bed of Korean Land Spatialization Program for Ubiquitous GISJiman Park, Junghun Lee, Kisung Song, Byungguk Kim
An Air Quality Spatial Data Infrastructure for Environmental ManagementSergio Cinnirella, Francesco D’Amore, Nicola Pirrone
Theoretical Framework for a Mobile Emergency Decision Support and Routing ApplicationMicah Brachman, Benjamin Adams
03 Feb 11:00 - 12:30 User Requirements Oral Parallel Session 3.2
Room Giolitti
Mario Gomarasca, CNR
GIS roles in emergency management in AlbaniaPal Nikolli
Identification of areas at risk of flooding and landslides for food prepositioning - A case study: MadagascarCarlo Pandolfi, Filippo Pongelli, Lara Prades, Giorgio Sartori
Climate and Disaster Risk Solutions: Equipping developing countries with tools to manage natural disaster risk more effectivelyJoanna Syroka, Peter Hoefsloot
The NARMA-geoland2 e-station an Earth Observation based decision support system tool for real time environmental monitoring in AfricaBruno Combal, Etienne Bartholomè, Pietro Alessandro Brivio, Mirco Boschetti, Daniela Stroppiana
Detection and Mapping of Geographic Distribution of Disease Vector Habitats in Imo State Southeastern Nigeria using Multi-Spectral Imaging SystemsJohn D. Njoku, Joseph C. Amadi, Justin U. Uwazuruonye, Fidelis C. Okorie
Usability of Selected Base Maps for Crises Management - Users Perspectives.Milan Konecny
03 Feb 11:00 - 12:30 Urban Analysis Oral Parallel Session 3.3
Room Einaudi
Horst Kremers, CODATA Germany
Optimal allocation of predetermined safe places to citizens in disaster management based on GISRahim Abbaspour, Farhad Samadzadegan
Site Selection for New Buildings with GIS & MCDMFatmagul Batuk, Mustafa Yalcin
Archeoseismic trace mapping and raster analyses for risk reduction in archaelogical sites (the case of Hierapolis in Phrygia)Antonia Spanò
Building extraction from high-resolution satellite image for tsunami early damage estimationTuong-Thuy Vu
The Development and Application of Navigable 3D GeodatabaseGang-Jun Liu, Darren Yu
Different Approaches for IDP Camp Analyses in West Darfur (Sudan) – a status reportO. Kranz, V. Gstaiger, S. Lang, D. Tiede, G. Zeug, Th. Kemper, P. Vega Ezquieta, S. Clandillon
03 Feb 14:00 - 15:30 New Perspectives in Satellite and Aerial Data Aquisition Plenary 4
Room Cavour
France Lamy, Google
e-GEOS capabilities in rapid Emergency Response – Two case-studies: L’Aquila earthquake and Parma / Pepang typhoone-Geos
Pictometry, the very high resolution system based on photogrammetry acquisitions available on Microsoft Virtual EarthGiovanni Banchini, CGR/Blom ASA
How far should we care? GI4DM’s relevance for the userPeter Zeil, Salzburg University
03 Feb 16:00 - 17:30 Monitoring and Processing Oral Parallel Session 4
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David Stevens, UNOOSA
Different PPP strategies in the case of natural disastersMarco Piras, Mattia De Agostino
Improvement of ITHACA early warning system for floodsAdriana Albanese, Fabio Giorgi, Prasanna Premachandra Nishshanka, Olivier Terzo
A new system for the representation of places hit by disastersPatrizia Midulla
Post-event damage assessment using morphological methodology on 0.5m resolution satellite dataMalgorzata Jenerowicz, Thomas Kemper, Martino Pesaresi, Pierre Soille
Monitoring and treatment in the management of environmental disasterMichel Nzaba
03 Feb 16:00 - 17:30 Emergency Preparedness and Response Poster Session 2
Underground Floor
Fabio Giulio Tonolo, ITHACA
The urban facilities monitering system using fish-eye lensJin-A Kang, Sang-Kwan Nam, Tae-Hoon Kim, Yoon-Seok Oh
GIS modelling to assess soil vulnerability: land maintenance actions in the Turin ProvinceDanilo Godone, Gabriele Garnero, Roberto Chiabrando, Angelo Caimi, Silvia Stanchi, Ermanno Zanini
Active (LIDAR) and passive (multi/hyperspectral) remote sensing techniques for supporting the evaluation of the urban seismic vulnerabilityF. Borfecchia, L. De Cecco, M. Pollino, A. Lugari, S. Martini, L. La Porta, E. Ristoratore, C. Pascale
Airborne laser scanner and large scale cartography in risk mapping : landslides and floodsHelenne Geissler, Carlos Loch
Remote sensing of areas at enviromental riskMaria Rosaria Della Rocca, Giuseppe Onorati, Alfonso De Nardo, Cira Oliviero, Fabio Cipolletti
An Accuracy Comparison for the Landslide Inventory with the BPNN and SVM MethodsK. T. Chang, J. K. Liu, Y. M. Chang, C. S. Kao
Seismic vulnerability assessment in the framework of GEO: a case study on Messina, ItalyDiego Polli, Fabio Dell'Acqua, Paolo Gamba
Utopia and its mapsTamara Bellone, Luigi Mussio
The 2009 April 6th L'Aquila earthquake: evaluation of surface displacementsDonatella Dominici, Guido Fastellini, Fabio Radicioni
Meteomont Service’s Meteo-Nivological Informative System: a Web-Gis ApproachSilvano Gandino, Mauro Menichetti, Danilo Godone
Spatial-data Reasoning Framework for Preventing Natural DisasterSangHoon Lee
Application of geoinformatic tools for monitoring of protected areasKrystyna Michałowska, Ewa Głowienka-Mikrut
Environmental Consideration in Planning and Managing Emergency Shelter SitesNafiseh MrzaHashemi Targhi
The Simulation On environmental geological of Desertification phenomena In LibyaFathi Elosta
Aida: Advancing ICT for DRM in AfricaNicolas Lewyckyj, Sven Gilliams
04 Feb 09:00 - 10:30 Public and Private Programmes in the Field of Emergency Response Plenary 5
Room Cavour
Sisi Zlatanova, TU Delft
SAFER - Services and Applications For the Emergency Response. GMES in action: first operational results of emergency response servicesGil Denis, David Hello, Infoterra
Google Map Maker -- use of crowdsourcing to support disaster management operationsEd Parsons, Google
04 Feb 11:00 - 12:30 Climate Change Oral Parallel Session 5.1
Room Einaudi
Giovanni Perona, Politecnico di Torino
Environmental Planning by Using GIS/RS for Flood ManagementAlireza Gharagozlou, Mojgan Hejrani Diarjan
The Meteosat Data Collection SystemSean Burns
The Urban Heat Island effect at European level: remote sensing and meteo-climatologic modelsPaolo Manunta, Giulio Ceriola, Monique Viel, Daniela Iasillo, Marc Paganini
MicroRadarNet: An Innovative Wireless Micro Radar Network for High Resolution Weather MonitoringStefano Turso, Marco Zambotto, Marco Gabella, Fiammetta Orione, Riccardo Notarpietro, Giovanni Perona
Railway responses to climate changes and environmental challenges as landslides, floods and avalanchesPer Anton Fevang
04 Feb 11:00 - 12:30 Web/GIS Applications Oral Parallel Session 5.2
Room Giolitti
Milan Konecny, Masaryk Un. Brno
ITHACA world-wide flood alert system: the web frameworkEros Agosto, Simone Dalmasso, Paolo Pasquali, Olivier Terzo
Integrating user-generated information for emergency managementLaura Díaz, Pau Aragó, Carlos Granell, Joaquín Huerta
Fast satellite data dissemination of large JPEG2000 compressed images with OGC standards.Joan Maso, Alaiz Zabala, Xavier Pons, Nuria Julia
Real time WebGIS services of a sensors network for water resources monitoring system and crisis managementAlberto Ortolani, Carlo Brandini, Letizia Costanza, Lucia Innocenti, Roberto Costantini, Francesco Sabatini, Luca Angeli, Bernardo Gozzini
A joint initiative to support the semantic interoperability within the GIIDA projectPaolo Plini, Sabina Di Franco, Valentina De Santis, Vito Felice Uricchio, Dario De Carlo, Stefania D'Arpa, Monica De Martino, Riccardo Albertoni
04 Feb 11:00 - 12:30 Drought Early Warning Systems Oral Parallel Session 5.3
Room Cavour
Peter Zeil, Salzburg University
Using Remote Sensing data for Vegetation Cover Assessment in Semi-arid Rangeland of Center Province of IranFazel Amiri, Tayebeh Tabatabaie
Preliminary approach to a global drought monitoring systemMatteo De Stefano, Franca Disabato, Francesca Perez, Piero Boccardo, Tamara Bellone
Approximate reasoning to assess land degradation syndromes by fusing socio-economic and environmental informationMirco Boschetti, Paola Carrara, Gloria Bordogna, Christof Weissteiner, Daniela Stroppiana, Pietro Alessandro Brivio, Kristin Böttcher
Drought impact detection on crops in the Sahel: a case study for the 2009 campaignMaurizio Bacci, Andrea Di Vecchia, Lorenzo Genesio, Vieri Tarchiani, Patrizio Vignaroli
Development of an automated tool for nowcasting dust and sand storms in desert environment using SEVIRI-MSG DataHosni Ghedira, Ali Al-Suwaidi, Adnan Al-Rais
A spatio-temporal analysis of drought in the North Western Nigeria using satellite remote sensing and precipitation dataFidelis Chinazor Okorie, Ifeyinwa Christabel Okeke
04 Feb 14:00 - 15:30 Fires and Technological Hazards Oral Parallel Session 6.1
Room Einaudi
Pietro Alessandro Brivio, CNR
GIS and remote sensing for the study of interactions between natural and industrial hazardsAlessandra Marino, Mariano Ciucci, Mario Mariani, Antonio Moccaldi
False alarm reduction in forest fires detection with low-cost commercial sensors.Lorenzo Corgnati, Andrea Losso, Giovanni Perona
Geospatial Support to Forest Fire Crisis Management at the European LevelCristiano Giovando, Ceri Whitmore, Andrea Camia, Jesús San Miguel, Roberto Boca, Jan Kucera
Geographic Information to Support Risk Analysis related to Dangerous Material HazardsMarco Scaioni, Mario Alba, Renato Rota, Pontiggia Marco, Derudi Marco
How can airborne video provide high resolution geo-referenced images in real-time for forest firefighters using web services.N. Lewyckyj, S. Adriaensen, J. Biesemans, T. Deroose, W. Horsten, S. Kempenaers, B. Michiels, I. Reusen, M. Ruts, K. Vanhoof
04 Feb 14:00 - 15:30 Coastal and Water Analysis Oral Parallel Session 6.2
Room Giolitti
Giorgio Sartori, WFP
Emergency Spatial Pre-SCAT Arctic Coastal Project: eSPACEJason Duffe, Sonia Laforest
Tsunami impact on coastal vegetation: a multitemporal assessment by remote sensingPaolo Villa, Mirco Boschetti, Jennifer L. Morse, Nicholas Politte, Anna Rampini
Rapid procedures for coastal environmental assessment: case histories in Ligurian and Tyrrhenian littoralRoberta Ivaldi, Luciano Surace
Climate change regional vulnerability assessment to support integrated coastal risk managementJ. Rizzi, S. Torresan, E. Alberighi, A. Critto, A. Marcomini
04 Feb 14:00 - 15:30 Early Warning and Impact Tools for Floods Oral Parallel Session 6.3
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Tom De Groeve, JRC
Near real time flood monitoring toolAndrea Ajmar, Piero Boccardo, Franca Disabato, Fabio Giulio Tonolo
Impact of X-band interferometric radar data on hydrogeological risk managementAlessandro Ferretti, Alfio Fumagalli, Fabrizio Novali, Andrea Tamburini
International cooperation for disaster rapid mapping. The Aila Cyclone case study in Bangladesh.Fabio Giulio Tonolo, Andrea Ajmar, John McHarris, Tasdiq Ahmed, Pietranera Luca, Disabato Franca
Earth observation flood risk analysis portfolio in response to the floods directiveHan Tambuyzer, Nicolas Dosselaere
Early Flood Warning for African river basinsVera Thiemig, Florian Pappenberger, Ad de Roo, Jutta Thielen
04 Feb 15:30 - 16:30 Conclusions and Best Poster Award Room Cavour Piero Boccardo, Politecnico di Torino

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