GEO 602 - Emergency Management with GIS and Remote Sensing

Course Objectives

1. To teach basic concepts and applications strategies within the disaster management
2. To teach producing accurate, up to date, local and global data from remote sensing and using for disaster management
3. It is aimed to improve the skills of application GIS based disaster management using related data collecting from different sources.

Course Description

ntroduction, disaster management, Components of disaster managements, natural disasters, technological disasters, global & local disasters, Hazard analysis, Mitigation strategies, Damage assessment, Disaster based GIS, Data capture & integration, remote sensing data, applications of GIS & remote sensing in disaster management, disaster scenarios, applications of HAZUS program, applications of HAZTURK program.