ECO-GEOWATER Euro Workshop

GI and Natural hazards

The workshop will address the major issues of monitoring, predicting and mitigating the hazard related to hydro-geological catastrophic events (manly, flooding and landsliding) through innovative methods and techniques based on GIS technology.

During the workshop, experts in both the domain and the technology, will introduce and critically discuss:

1) the potentials and limitations of GIS-based methods for the identification, mapping, prediction and reduction of hazards and risks related to landslide and flood-induced catastrophes
2) relevant case studies where GIS techniques were thoroughly applied for assessing, predicting and mapping hydro-geological hazards.

The agenda of the workshop will cover in particular the following issues:

• Methods and techniques for acquiring relevant data for monitoring hydro-geological catastrophic phenomena.
• Methods for assessing the quality, relevance and reliability of the data.
• GIS-based techniques and multivariate statistical methods in assessing natural hazards at regional scale (mainly landsliding).
• GIS techniques and physically-based models in assessing natural hazards at regional scale (mainly flooding).
• GIS-based techniques and deterministic methods in assessing natural hazards at local scale (mainly landsliding).
• Techniques for exploiting high-resolution imagery for identifying and assessing hazardous areas.
• Methods for generating and validating DTMs derived from contour lines or digital photogrammetric techniques.

The workshop will be organised in lectures, seminars and demonstrations held at the spatial analysis laboratory of the Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche e Geotecnologie, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca.