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International workshop on "Risk
assessment of multi-hazards along the Indian coast" was
organized during 9-12 July 2007 at Indian Institute of Remote
Sensing in collaboration with Asian Institute of Technology (AIT),
Bangkok, Thailand as a part of multi-institutional capacity
building effort.
The main objective of the workshop was to foster a closer
interaction amongst the participants from various leading
research institution of the country and sharing their expertise
and knowledge on the subject. This workshop will address the use
of Remote Sensing and complementing techniques to study the risk
assessment of various coastal hazards such as cyclones, storm
surges, tsunami, landslide and floods.
Twenty participants and five external resource persons were
invited to the workshop. Besides the leading talks presented by
the resource persons, participants also presented case studies
in their interest related to coastal studies. The following
topics were discussed during the workshop.
A. Presentation made by the external and IIRS faculties
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Introduction to SCRATCH
(Strengthening Capacity on multi-hazard Risk Assessment in
Tsunami affected Countries).
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Overview of Disasters in
India.
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Theory of multi-hazard Risk
Assessment and case studies
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Remote Sensing applications in
coastal zone hazards.
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Tropical cyclone: Tracking
and landfall prediction.
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Analysis of sea level data
for identifying storm surge events.
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Introduction to coastal
hazards.
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Indian Ocean tsunamis and
Earth quake source parameters.
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Role of GPS data for Earth
quake and Tsunami Studies.
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Suitable Site selection for
cyclone shelter.
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Tsunamis damage assessment
case study and evacuation planning.
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Indian Space Programme &
Natural Disasters.
B. Presentation made by the
participants
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Coastal Erosion along
Mangalore Coast.
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Mathematical model to simulate
coastal dynamics.
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Application of Remote Sensing
Techniques to understand the Coastal dynamics - A case study
of Karwar, India.
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