Events

Event

Title:: Training workshop on GIS for Civil Protection
When:: 09.03.2010 - 12.03.2010
Where:: Protezione Civile - Roma
Category:: Past Events

Description

First PPRD South training workshop for staff-level officials
“Geographical Information Systems for Civil Protection”
Italian Civil Protection Department
Rome, Italy, 9-12 March 2010

Expected outcome

To increase knowledge on key concepts and tools for the management, integration, editing, analysis and sharing of geographical information in the context of Civil Protection and to introduce the methodologies for the development of the PPRD South Web GIS database.

Workshop report

Agenda

Workshop Description

List of participants

Press Release EN, AR

Presentations made: click on the title of the presentation to download it

Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Introduction to the PPRD South Programme, Mr. Pierluigi Soddu, PPRD South Executive Director

Presentation of GIS workshop topics and objectives, Mr. Soddu

The Algerian experience in Geographical Information Systems for Civil Protection (available in French only), Lt. Riadh Aliouat, GIS and Cartography Specialist, Algerian Civil Defense

Components of a Geographical Information System with focus on the different typologies of geospatial data, Mr. Dimitri Dello Buono, Expert, Institute for the Methodologies of Environmental Analysis (IMAA) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR)

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Methodologies for collaborative geospatial data editing and the issue of copyrights; The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards; The provisions of the INSPIRE Directive, Mr. Dello Buono

Web based Geographical Information System, Mr. Dello Buono

Thursday, 11 March 2010

Guidelines for the setting-up of a GIS Web Portal through GeoSDI methodology, Mr. Dello Buono

Data pre-processing and creation of Geospatial Data Stores, Mr. Lorenzo Amato, Institute for the Methodologies of Environmental Analysis (IMAA) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR)

Friday, 12March 2010

Open source Geographical Information Systems software applications, Mr. Dello Buono

Use of GEOSDI (Practical exercise), Facilitator: Mr. Dello Buono

The UN experience with the GeoSDI platform and open access international databases including earth observation data, Mr. Giorgio Sartori, Emergency Information Management Advisor, UN World Food Programme

The PPRD South Web Portal, Mr. Alessandro Candeloro, PPRD South Media and Information Expert