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Session Overview
Location: A022 Seminar Room
UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, 3012 Bern / Ground Floor, Places: 72, Seating: fixed
Date: Tuesday, 28/Jan/2025
3:00pm
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4:30pm
RS & Rapid Mapping I: Remote Sensing, Monitoring, and Rapid Mapping
Location: A022 Seminar Room
Chair: Johanna Roll

This session focuses on remote sensing applications for disaster risk management and rapid mapping of natural hazard events.

Session II will take place on Thursday, 30 January 2025, from 9:30 am to 10:30 am in room A022.

Date: Wednesday, 29/Jan/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
Forest Hazards I: Forest Hazards: Forecasting and Mitigating Natural Hazards in and around Forests
Location: A022 Seminar Room
Chair: Colin Kretz Bloom

Session II will take place on Wednesday, 29 January 2025, from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm in Room A022.                             

2:00pm
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3:00pm
Forest Hazards II: Forest Hazards: Forecasting and Mitigating Natural Hazards in and around Forests
Location: A022 Seminar Room
Chair: Colin Kretz Bloom

Session I will take place on Wednesday, 29 January 2025, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm in Room A022.     

Date: Thursday, 30/Jan/2025
9:30am
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10:30am
RS & Rapid Mapping II: Remote Sensing, Monitoring, and Rapid Mapping
Location: A022 Seminar Room
Chair: Johanna Roll

This session focuses on remote sensing applications for disaster risk management and rapid mapping of natural hazard events.

Session I will take place on Tuesday, 28 January 2025, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm in room A022.

11:00am
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12:30pm
IRM Alps & Arctic: Integrated Risk Management in the Alps and the Arctic
Location: A022 Seminar Room
Chair: Nina Schuback
Chair: Danièle Rod

Presentations

Eva Mätzler, Jona Peters, and Alexander Gamble: 'Landslide And Tsunami Monitoring In Remote Arctic Environment - Challenges And Possibilities'

Raphael Mayoraz and Martin Proksch: 'Risk Management in Switzerland and Greenland'

Anna Scolobig and Markus Stoffel: ‘ Acceptable for whom? Addressing social conflicts in integrated disaster risk management’

Panel discussion:

Risk at the centre of the discussion: acceptable risk, risk perception and acceptance, effect of climate change on risk perception; challenges with EWS and communication in the Alps and in the Arctic, similarities, differences

Moderation of panel discussion: Gabriel Chevalier

Experts:

Eva Mätzler from the Ministry of Industry, Trade, Mineral Resources, Justice and Gender Equality of the Government of Greenland

Aske Wied Madsen from the Department for Contingency Management of the Government of Greenland

Hugo Raetzo from the Federal Office for the Environment of Switzerland

Raphael Mayoraz from the Natural Hazards Service (SDANA), Canton Valais, Switzerland

Martin Proksch from the Integrated Risk Management Support Section (AGIR), Canton Valais, Switzerland

Markus Stoffel from the University of Geneva, Switzerland

Anna Scolobig from the University of Geneva, Switzerland

2:00pm
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3:30pm
GeoAI Workshop: Disaster Management with Deep Learning
Location: A022 Seminar Room
Chair: Raimund Schnürer

Invited experts:

  • Magnus Heitzler, Heitzler Geoinformatik, Germany

  • Maaz Sheikh, Ageospatial, Switzerland

  • Jan Svoboda, SLF Davos, Switzerland

  • Yizi Chen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland


 
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