Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
A prototype using open-source WebGIS technologies has been implemented to make data on hazard impacts, such as damaged infrastructure, landslides or flooding events available to authorities and the general public. …
Rapid Offline-Online Landslide Mapping tool (ROOl Map) Read MoreLe groupe Risk de l’UNIL au 20 heures de France2 On Tuesday 3rd November 2015, three minutes of the TV news of the French national channel France2 were dedicated to research …
The Risk group in the national French TV news Read MoreM. Jaboyedoff participated to the “Second Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction: Development of a Research Road Map for the Next Decade” which was held at Uji …
GSRIDRR, Kyoto University, 19-20 March 2015 Read MoreThe swiss Intercantonal Reinsurance (VKF/UIR) published a report on a hail event which occurred in Northern Switzerland in 2011. This report has been written in collaboration with our group. The study …
Publication of a report on a hail event Read MoreA joint IUCN – UNEP – University of Lausanne workshop in Kathmandu and Pokhara, Nepal on the topic of Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction was held April 21-25, 2015. The main …
UNIL-IUCN-UNEP workshop in Nepal concludes minutes before earthquake struck Read MoreThe Massive Open On-line Course (MOOC), “Disasters and Ecosystems: Resilience in a Changing Climate”, co-developed by the United Nations Environment Programme and UNIL-ISTE researcher Dr. Karen Sudmeier has reached over …
MOOC reaches 11,000 + enrollments Read MoreThe Risk Analysis Group of ISTE at this very sad to announce the death of: Le Groupe Risk Analysis à l’immense tristesse de vous faire part du décès de: Jacques …
Triste nouvelle (sad news) Read MoreHello to everyone, We will be presenting a Short Course at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly. The course is entitled “Use of 3D point clouds in Geosciences: Acquisition, Processing …
SHORT COURSE at EGU2015 Read MoreWe have been invited for edit a special issue at Remote Sensing journal entitled: “Use of LiDAR and 3D point clouds in Geohazards” Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2015 …
Special Issue “Use of LiDAR and 3D point clouds in Geohazards” Read MoreA few days ago we received a phone call from the New York Times graphics editor Derek Watkins who was preparing an article on a team of two American rock-climbers …
3D point clouds in the media Read MoreLe 17 janvier 2015 dès 8h30 (ou 11h30) Image des Dents du Midi B. Matasci (COLTOP-3D) Le comité des anciens de l’institut des Sciences de la Terre de l’Université de …
Fête des Sciences de la Terre Lausannoises Read MoreThis Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) covers a broad range of topics from disaster management, climate change, ecosystem management and community resilience. How these issues are linked and how well-managed ecosystems …
Announcing “Disasters and Ecosystems: Resilience in a Changing Climate”, a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to be launched 12 January, 2015 Read More