Conference Agenda

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.

 

Analysis and Mapping of Natural Hazards Using Common Photography

Claudio Bozzini, Veronica Bozzini



Supporting Situational Awareness for an Improved Triggering of Satellite-Based Emergency Mapping

Monika Friedemann, Martin Mühlbauer, Fabian Henkel, Tabea Wilke, Torsten Riedlinger



Rapid Mapping - A Federal Service for the Documentation and Management of Natural Disasters

Mathias Zesiger, Sabine Brodhag, Wolfgang Ruf, Mathias Gross



Providing Timely Very-High Resolution Imagery and Geodata in Case of Flood Events to First Responders Using Web-Based Solutions

Johanna Roll, Kayla Barginda, Anna Orthofer, Anne Schneibel, Monika Gähler



Improving Building Detection Accuracy: Analysis of Building Location Characteristics in Open-Access Satellite Data

Koji Ogino, Toshihiro Osaragi


 
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.                             

 

Understanding Community Wildfire Preparedness and Needs in Switzerland

Judith A. Kirschner, Christine Eriksen



Using ECOSTRESS Data with Machine Learning Approaches to Predict and Analyze Wildfires

Soe Win Myint, Yuanhui Zhu, Shakthi Bharathi Murugesan, Ivone Masara, Josh Fisher



Predicting and Mapping Drought Effects on European Beech Forests Under a Changing Climate

Colin K. Bloom, Romana Paganini, Tiziana L. Koch, Katrin Meusburger, Lorenz Walthert, Daniel Scherrer, Arun Bose, Andri Baltensweiler



Hydro-Meteorological Drivers of Forest Damage over Europe

Pauline Rivoire, Sonia Dupuis, Antoine Guisan, Pascal Vittoz, Daniela Domeisen

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.     

 

An Application For Forecasting Tree-fall Hazard On The Czech Railway Network

Michal Bíl, Jan Kubeček, Vojtěch Cícha, Vojtěch Nezval, Richard Andrášik



Visualization of a Database of Road and Rail Blockages in Czechia Caused by Natural Hazards

Jan Kubeček, Michal Bíl, Vojtěch Nezval



Improved Flood Hazard and Risk Assessment by Monitoring Large Wood Transport

Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva, Janbert Aarnink, Francis Bangnira, Gabriele Consoli, Bryce Finch, Javier Gibaja del Hoyo, M. Sheikh, Llanos Valera-Prieto


 
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.

 

Investigating Alpine Mass Movements with Space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radars: Current State, Challenges, and Perspectives

Andrea Manconi, Gwendolyn Dasser, Mylène Jacquemart, Nicolas Oestreicher, Livia Piermattei, Tazio Strozzi



Observed Precipitation Patterns of Flash Floods in Switzerland

Maung Moe Myint



Enhancing Hazard Monitoring and Response in Alpine Regions: The GUARDAVAL Surveillance System in Valais, Switzerland

Guillaume Favre-Bulle, Jean-Yves Délèze, Bastien Roquier, Martin Proksch, Raphaël Mayoraz

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

 

Integrated Risk Management in the Alps and the Arctic

Nina Schuback



Landslide And Tsunami Monitoring In Remote Arctic Environment - Challenges And Possibilities

Eva Mätzler, Jonas Petersen, Alexander Philipp Gamble

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