Role of Geospatial Professionals in Risk and Disaster Management andPreventing Natural Catastrophes

FIG Working Week 2009

Prof. Orhan ALTAN ; President of ISPRS ; Turkey

PID  :  128047

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Each year disasters, such as storms, floods, volcanoes, and earthquakes, cause thousands ofdeaths and tremendous damage to property around the world, displacing tens of thousands ofpeople from their homes and destroying their livelihood. Many of these deaths and lossescould be prevented with better information regarding the onset and course of such disasters.One of these catastrophes is the earthquake and recent events in Northridge, Kobe, MarmaraSea, Southeast Asia and latest earthquakes in China were typical examples of what canhappen when a major earthquake strikes directly under a densely populated area.Geodetic science plays an important role in the earthquake research. By means of longtermmeasurement, deformations caused by the breakage of the earth crust caused by the movingplates can be examined. Photogrammetry and Information System techniques are new tools inthe earthquake research. Terrestrial photogrammetric methods are used to document thedamages after an earthquake.The major aim of this presentation is to address the Role of Geospatial Professionals in theabove mentioned areas.BIOGRAPHICAL NOTESDr. Orhan Altan is Professor at the Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetry of IstanbulTechnical University; published more than 160 papers in different journals and congressproceedings in English, German and Turkish, was editor or coeditor of 15 books andconference proceedings in Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial InformationSystems. He worked as guest professor at the Universities of Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart and theETHZ in different years and gave there lectures and seminars on the Use of Geoinformationin different application areas. He is elected as President of the ISPRS during the BeijingCongress at July 2008 for the period 20082012.His main working areas are Digital and Architectural Photogrammetry, Spatial InformationSystems, DisasterRisk Management and Deformation Measurements.