The ISPRS SC Webinar Series
ISPRS WG V/4 Webinar Series: Feb-March 2025

Geospatial Technology for Effective Disaster Risk Management
Moderator: Dr Shyam S Kundu, Secretary, ISPRS TC V/4
Importance of comprehensive Disaster and Climate Risk Management
Dr. Sanjay K. Srivastava
Chief of Disaster Risk Reduction at UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
February 21, 2025, 10:00 UTC / 15:30 IST
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Geospatial Infrastructure Management Ecosystem (GeoIME) to Determine Building Vulnerability and Risk Estimation
Prof Adam Saeid Pirasteh
Professor, Geospatial Intelligence and Mapping (GIM) Lab, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
February 28, 2025, 10:00 UTC / 15:30 IST
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Understanding Disaster Risk and Geospatial technology for effective DRR: The India experience
Dr. S. P. Aggarwal
Director, NESAC, Dept. of Space, Govt. of India
President, Indian Society of Remote Sensing
March 11, 2025, 10:00 UTC / 15:30 IST
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Space technology for combating Hydro-Meteorological Disasters
Dr. M. Mahapatra
Director General of Meteorology, India Meteorological Dept, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India
Third Vice President, WMO
March 18, 2025, 10:00 UTC / 15:30 IST
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Environmental protection as an integral part of disaster risk management
Prof Viktor Lagutov
Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
March 21, 2025, 10:00 UTC / 15:30 IST
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GeoAI for Disaster Risk Reduction
Dr. H. Lexie Yang
Senior R & D Staff, GeoAI Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
March 28, 2025, 11:00 UTC / 16:30 IST
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N.B.: Date and Time is tentative for the lecture by Dr M Mahapatra, Prof Viktor Lagutov, and Dr H Lexie Yang