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The first ICU world data system conference

Organizer(s) International Council for Science
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Kyoto University
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This conference is the first international meeting of the WDS to provide with an opportunity to receive opinions, comments and suggestions from scientific communities (data users) and other international data systems to establish the active plan of WDS. This conference consists of two parts; "WDS-Related Sessions" including sessions to discuss general concepts and strategy to run WDS, and "Scientific Sessions" are allocated for presentations by data-oriented scientists in a variety of research field, including information sciences. Presentations of activities of WDS data centers are also welcome.

Conference topics will be:

- Integrated Disaster Risk: From Research to Practice.
- The need for data – Natural disasters and the challenges of loss data collection and management.
- Various database management systems available for analysis and prediction of extreme hazards and disaster reduction.
- Multi-disciplinary approaches to intelligently sharing large-volumes of real-time sensor data during natural disasters.
- Quality Evaluation of Remote Sensing Mapping for Land Cover Based on Cartographic Specifications.

 

Source
http://wds-kyoto-2011.org/

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Conference programme English

Document links last validated on: 18 December 2019

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Themes Early warning Data and information management Risk identification and assessment
Country and region Japan Asia
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