Webinar on: Advanced GIS Hazard Mapping.
Colleagues from the University of Geneva together with Sustainable Caucasus continue regional workshops on teaching-learning practice improvement to respond to the growing demand for qualified teaching in Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and hazard mapping (DRM-HM) and to contribute to capacity building for instructors in higher education institutions in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia within the project Strengthening the Climate Adaptation Capacities in the South Caucasus: Enhancing regional cooperative action for the benefit of the Caucasus mountain region (SCAC), financially supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
On the 19th of January 2022 the third virtual webinar took place with the participation of representatives of higher education institutions from the countries of the Caucasus Mountain Region under the theme: Advanced GIS hazard mapping.
The webinar was led by Simon Allen, from the University of Geneva and covered theoretical background and concepts, including some historical evolution on the subject (lecture component), and provided an overview of selected practical exercises and other supporting resources.
The proposed webinar introduced a learning unit focused on advanced GIS skills for hazard modeling and mapping. The learning objective of this unit is to expand students' capabilities to use GIS as an analytical tool, gaining transferable skills and experiences that can be applied to a larger range of environmental challenges. Specifically, students will be able to:
- Use multi-temporal imagery to monitor changing land cover over time;
- Integrate freely available global datasets to undertake hazard susceptibility analyses over large areas;
- Perform suitability and network analysis to guide the planning of evacuation routes;
- Customize project output and share online.
At the end of the webinar, national experts made contributions and inputs to the learning unit and shared regional experience with GIS hazard mapping
