Conference Themes

The national meet shall deliberate on the following themes for best technological solutions to disaster risk reduction in the country addressing Prime Minister’s 10 point agenda.

Hydrological Disasters

Flood early warning models, spatial flood inundation simulations, GLOF, dam break, urban flood modeling, flash floods, tsunami, digital terrain models, etc.​

Meteorological Disasters

Cyclo-genesis, Cyclone forecasting, lightening, storm surge modeling, hydro-meteorological network, satellite based rainfall products, doppler weather radar data, etc.​

Geological Disasters

Landslide inventory, landslide susceptibility, landslide early warning, seismic hazard zonation, geodynamics study, etc.​

Drought and Forest Fire

Role of earth observation in agriculture drought risk management, Earth observation for active fire detection in forests and stubble burning, forest fire management, rapid forest fire affected area assessment, etc.,

Climate Change Impact

Extreme hydro-meteorological events, climate change impact on extreme events(flash floods, urban floods, lightening, heat & cold waves, etc)​

Disaster Risk Management

Multi hazard disaster risk management, national database for emergency management, relief and rescue operations, role of earth observation in DRR, international collaboration, satellite communications, best practices in DRR, etc​