13Jan/18

OGC Announces Disasters Interoperability Concept Development Study

13/01/2018Crisis Mapping, Geo-IT allgemeinCrisis Mapping, OGCfjbehr

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced the Disasters Interoperability Concept Development Study (CDS). The CDS will assess the current state of data and product exchange technologies as used in disaster planning,Read More…

09Nov/17

Modernstes Tsunami-Warnsystem der Welt entwickelt – Goldenes Lot 2017 für Dr. Jörn Lauterjung

09/11/2017Crisis Mapping, VDVGoldenes Lot, Tsunami-Frühwarnung, VDVfjbehr

Dr. Jörn Lauterjung, Direktor am Deutschen GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ wurde am 03. November in Köln für seine herausragenden Aktivitäten im Rahmen der Projektkoordination zur Entwicklung des Tsunami-Frühwarnsystems im Indischen Ozean vom Verband DeutscherRead More…

24Okt/17

2017 Global platform for disaster risk reduction: Proceedings available

24/10/2017Crisis Mapping, Organisationen, VeranstaltungenDisaster, Disaster Risk Reduction, Sendai Framework, UNISDRfjbehr

This document summarises on 107 pages the proceedings of The Fifth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, which took place from 24 to 26 May 2017 in Cancún, Mexico,Read More…

19Okt/17

Geoinformation for Disaster Management Conference in Istanbul

19/10/2017Crisis Mapping, ISPRS, Kongresse, VeranstaltungenISPRSfjbehr

The world has experienced several devastating disasters in this century, first an Earthquake of a very high magnitude and then Tsunami afterwards or heavy rainfalls followed by floods and landslides, which areRead More…

10Sep/17

Disaster OpenRouteService now active in the Caribbean, North America (incl. Mexico) and Bangladesh

10/09/2017Crisis MappingOpenRouteServicefjbehr

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is currently coordinating OSM mapping activities as response to Hurricane “Irma” which is affecting the islands of the Caribbean and Florida, as well as to the severeRead More…

07Jan/17

Announcement: International AGSE Winter School on Crisis and Disaster Management

07/01/2017Ausbildung, Crisis Mapping, Kongresse, VeranstaltungenAGSE, Disaster Management, HFTfjbehr

The International AGSE Winter School on Crisis and Disaster Management is organized by the Geomatics Department at the University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart and the Department of Geomatics Engineering of the UniversityRead More…

07Jan/17

HOT Summit 2016 videos now available

07/01/2017Crisis Mapping, Firmennachrichten, VeranstaltungenHumanitarian OpenStreetMap Teamfjbehr

On September 22 2016, community builders, development professionals, educators, geographers, humanitarians, journalists, philanthropists, programmers, and volunteer mappers came together to learn, discuss and share ideas on how open geospatial data and theRead More…

12Dez/16

Free Report: Drones in Humanitarian Action

12/12/2016Crisis Mapping, FirmennachrichtenCartONG, Disaster Management, dronesfjbehr

UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), also known as drones and RPAS, are used more and more in various fields for imagery, transport and other purposes. Humanitarian organisations, but also actors not traditionally involvedRead More…

05Nov/16

Ärzte ohne Grenzen und das Rote Kreuz: Österreichischer Mapathon

05/11/2016Crisis Mapping, OpenStreetMap, Veranstaltungen;apathon, Ärzte ohne Grenzen, CartONG, HOT, OpenStreetMapfjbehr

Ärzte ohne Grenzen und das Rote Kreuz organisieren gemeinsam den ersten Mapathon in Österreich. Bei dieser „Mapping-Party“ helfen Freiwillige den Hilfsorganisationen dabei, eine vernachlässigte Krisenregion auf die Karte zu setzen. Detaillierte LandkartenRead More…

07Okt/16

Registrierung von CartONG noch bis zum 10. Oktober

07/10/2016Ausbildung, Crisis Mapping, VeranstaltungenCartONG, Disaster Managementfjbehr

Noch bis zum 10. Oktober 2016 ist die Registrierung zur diesjährigen CartONG-Konferenz möglich. Die Konferenz mit Fokus auf Disaster Management und Disaster Mapping findet vom 17. – 19. Oktober 2016 in ChambéryRead More…