Activity 4: Short course on GIS and Remote Sensing for Natural Hazard and Risk Assessment at ITC, The Netherlands

The selected faculty from the participating universities were awarded fellowship to follow a three-month short course on the use of GIS and Remote Sensing for Natural Hazard and Risk Assessment in ITC, the Netherlands 14^th February to 13^th May 2005.  It was an intensive tailor made course on application of IT&C tools for hazard and risk assessment and data capturing, data analysis and data presentation. The course comprised 4 modules each of three-week duration. The selected participants were also exposed to use of the Blackboard tool for course support. The participants were:

• Mr Rahul Srivastav, IIRS Dehradun

• Dr. V. Hari Prasad, IIRS Dehradun

• Dr. Sudibyakto, UGM, Indonesia

• Mr. Tawee Chaipimonplin, CMU, Thailand

• Prof. P. Liyana Arachchi, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka

• A report on Short course at ITC by the four partner universities was one of the project outputs.