[O2-22]
Innovative remote sensing technologies for enhancing disaster management

[O2-22-01] Innovative remote sensing technologies for enhancing disaster management

*Shunichi Koshimura¹, *Naoto Yokoya², *Christian Geiß³, *Marc Wieland³, *Fumio Yamazaki⁴, *Hiroyuki Miura⁵, Günter Strunz³, Erick Mas¹ (1. International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Japan, 2. RIKEN AIP Center, Japan, 3. German Aerospace Center, Germany, 4. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Japan, 5. Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan)

Keywords:Remote Sensing, Geoscience, Data Fusion

Thanks to recent advances and improvements in satellite sensors, data accessibility, applications and services, many space agencies support data-sharing policies that facilitate access to remotely-sensed data for more efficient use in disaster management. Tremendous progress has been made with sophisticated methods to analyze imageries and geospatial data in near real-time via geo-web-services and crowd-sourcing, and those can be used in disaster management and emergency response. Satellite earth observations achieved consistent and repeated coverage of the world, and that makes it possible to understand and share disaster impacts among the countries, regardless of time and weather conditions.

This session aims to provide state-of-the-art technologies and recommended practices on how the integration of Earth Observation and satellite-based technologies into enhancing disaster management. Part of this session's outcomes will be considered to be published in the Special Issue "Advances in Remote Sensing for Disaster Research: Methodologies and Applications" in Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292), a peer-reviewed open access journal of MDPI, one of the media partners of WBF2019.

Keynote and invited presentations are as follows;

Keynote Presentation
Naoto Yokoya (RIKEN), "Geospatial AI for Disaster Damage Assessment"

Invited Presentations
Marc Wieland (German Aerospace Center), "Towards Operational Flood Monitoring based on Multi-Sensor Satellite Data“
Christian Geiss (German Aerospace Center), "Collective Sensing Techniques for Exposure Estimation"
Fumio Yamazaki (National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience), "Value of on Site and Airborne Sensing for Ground Truth"
Hiroyuki Miura (Hiroshima Univ.), "Remote Sensing and DEM-based Approach for Debris Flow Assessment"