Satellites for Disaster Prevention and Management

Legal, technical and practical elements of dealing with disasters, using modern technology, were addressed at a seminar on 14 May 2019 at Charles Clore House in London. Vital documents were also discussed, including the UN Remote Sensing Principles, the Disaster Charter and the Crisis Connectivity Charter. Technical and practical topics included:

• risk evaluation
• the use of Risk Petri Dishes and AI
• multiple-hazard risk to infrastructure
• GIS and remote sensing techniques including high resolution
• spatial disaggregation of data for mapping
• real-time satellite information and social networks
• SAR data in cloudy conditions
• Copernicus and Sentinel satellites
• computing challenges in remote sensing

This was the third in our series “Space Serving Humanity”, presented together with the UCL Space Domain. The Programme, Report, a presentation by Professor Sa’id Mosteshar, and Professor Jan-Peter Muller’s presentation slides are available to download.