Seminar on remote sensing for disaster management from Oct 11
Andhra University will host three-day international seminar on Remote Sensing for Disaster Management (ICRCDM -2017) from October 11. Speaking to media at Senate Hall in AU campus on Tuesday, AU Vice Chancellor G Nageshwara Rao said that the AU Engineering College’s Geo-engineering department would organise the prestigious event. Â
Visakhapatnam: Andhra University will host three-day international seminar on Remote Sensing for Disaster Management (ICRCDM -2017) from October 11. Speaking to media at Senate Hall in AU campus on Tuesday, AU Vice Chancellor G Nageshwara Rao said that the AU Engineering College’s Geo-engineering department would organise the prestigious event.
Scientists and academicians from Indonesia, China, Korea, Malaysia, Ethiopia and from different parts of India are attending the conference. “As this is an International event, we have selected 200 participants from the applications after scrutiny,” he said.
Dr YVN Krishna Murthy from NRSC (ISRO), Prof Chandan Ghosh from National Institute of Disaster Management and Prof G Dileepkumar from IOWA State University, USA would deliver plenary lectures on October 11. Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority Commissioner MV Seshagiri Babu would address the gathering on the occasion.
In the conference, discussions and paper presentations on 16 sub-themes of disaster management including floods and cyclones, landslides, earthquakes, drought and sustainable agriculture, coastal erosion and ecological restoration, forest fires, industrial disasters and safety measures, geo-informatics for rural development and capacity building, resilience of urban and civil construction disasters, medical urgency and unmanned aircraft vehicle (drones) and its role in disaster management and other will be held.
VC Nageshewara Rao said the event is a platform to exchange views over new developments in the field of disaster management. Latest developments would be useful to develop capacity building for effective management. “The papers selected for oral presentation shall be published in Springer Series Proceedings in Geomechanics and Geo-engineering.
The extended versions would be published in International Journal of Emergency Management (Inderscience) and Indian Journal of Indian Society of Geomatics,” he said adding that the organisers had entered into an MoU with all journals to publish research articles as a conference’s special volume.
Technology-driven capacity building can only reduce the human and property loss, said convener of the Conference Prof P Jagadeeswara Rao. AUCE (A) Principal Prof PS Avadhani and Head of Department Prof P Jai Sankar were present.
