Response & Recovery

Friday 21 OCtober 2022

RESPONSE AND RECOVERY

Symposium, Excursions & Inaugural Lecture Prof. dr. Norman Kerle

PERSPECTIVES ON EFFECTIVE DISASTER RESPONSE & RECOVERY - WHAT DOES IT TAKE, AND HOW DO WE GET THERE? 

Research into disaster response and recovery has a long tradition, and numerous devastating events worldwide have given the diverse governmental and civilian stakeholders extensive experience in the practical challenges such situations pose. The Sendai Framework provides a conceptual structure that emphasizes more effective response and recovery, while improving environmental monitoring networks and modelling systems allow hazardous events to be better anticipated and prepared for than ever before. However, such progress is offset by a variety of challenges, including in economically richer nations that have traditionally fared better in containing environmental hazards. Spending on infrastructure maintenance keeps getting reduced, climate change fuels a more erratic environment, and risk management systems are predominantly institution-driven and exclude broad societal involvement, while continuing to be reactionary rather than aiming at risk reduction and anticipation. 

How is disaster risk research responding to this situation? There has been progress in terms of paying better attention to traditionally ignored aspects, such as coping and adaptive capacity of different social groups, multi-hazard interactions and cascading events, early action, but also in the use of geoinformation. Nevertheless, much of the research remains mono-disciplinary, such as the use of machine learning in image-based damage mapping, or the use of remote sensing data to observe post-disaster recovery. 

The purpose of this symposium is to bring together a variety of experts from different disciplines that all play a role in advancing our understanding of risk or in disaster response, but that not commonly work together. Through a combination of short position statements and a moderated panel discussion, and by including the audience, the aim is to explore where cross-disciplinary collaboration is leading to progress in our understanding or our practical abilities, and what is still lacking. 

09.00-09.30

Coffee and Tea 

09.30-10.45

Symposium Session 1: Response & Recovery from different perspectives

Chair Prof Norman Kerle [University of Twente, The Netherlands]

The panel members:

• Dr. Diana Reckien [University of Twente] - the climate change & IPCC perspective (to be confirmed) 
• Prof. Dr. Markus Gerke [University of Braunschweig, Germany] - the geomatics perspective 
• Dr. Marc van den Homberg [510.org, The Netherlands] - the humanitarian sector perspective 
• Prof. Dr. João Porto de Albuquerque [University of Glasgow, UK] – the participatory urban analytics perspective 
• Prof. Dr. Nick Megoran [Newcastle University, UK] - the political science perspective 
• Dr. Caroline Gevaert [University of Twente] – the development perspective

10.45-11.00

Coffeebreak  

11.00-11.50

Symposium Session 2: Response & Recovery from multiple perspectives

Moderator: Dr Irene Manzella [University of Twente, The Netherlands], Head and Coordinator of the CDR

11.50-12.00

How can we have a 360° perspective on Response and Recovery to increase Resilience?

 Dr Irene Manzella: Overall M²R² symposium

12.30-13-15

Lunch at the Design Lab

12.30-15.30

Excursion: Design Lab (including Lunch) and the new ITC Buidling

The purpose of this excursion to the DesignLab we will provide an overview of the role UAV-derived imagery and related geodata processing play in disaster risk management, especially in post-disaster damage and recovery assessment, as well as routine infrastructure monitoring, all within the framework of how to achieve or increase resilience. This includes an overview of the utility of drones that range from microdevices weighing less than 40g, to more sophisticated hybrid platforms that combine flight behaviours of both airplanes and helicopters, and that can be equipped with a variety of sensors. I will explain (i) what derivatives are extracted from the UAV-acquired data, (ii) how they linked to existing data such as BIM models or terrestrial laser scanning data, (iii) what gets processed in real-time, including onboard of the UAV, and (iv) how different forms of machine learning are used for semantic scene understanding or the identification of features related to damages. Wherever possible this will be illustrated with data from the new ITC building (Langezijds).

After the presentation and Q&A we will have an opportunity for a small sneak preview visit of the new ITC building! As there is still a lot of construction work ongoing we will have to split up into 2 groups and go sequentially, and we will only be able to access a smaller part close to the DesignLab, but hopefully enough to give everyone a sense of what the new building will look and feel like from the inside.

 Schedule:

12:30-13:15 Sandwich lunch

13:15-14:30 session on damage mapping with drones

14:30-15:15 visit to the new ITC building

16.00-1700

Inaugural lecture Prof. dr. Norman Kerle: It takes a village: technology and society in crisis response

17.00

Reception