Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	CBS & Uzkatan Alg.İle Afet Yön
	English	Emergency Management with GIS and Remote Sensing
Course Code	GEO 602	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	3	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Muhammed Şahin
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.
Course Outcomes		i. To learn the importance and use of disaster management phases in different cases ii. To know the disaster management based software and understand the relationship of them with the phases of disaster management iii. To learn the general features of remote sensing data, platforms and common remote sensing satellite systems and their applications on disaster management phases iv. To generate post-disaster situation maps by using remote sensing and ancillary data v. To learn GIS based disaster management and produce thematic maps depends on the different analysis vi. To learn data produced with GIS for the decision making and planning. vii. To work as a member or leader in an interdisciplinary team, and to prove national and international written and oral communication skills.
Pre-requisite(s)		none
Required Facilities
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Textbook
Other References		Andrew N. Rencz, Robert A. Ryerson, 1999. Manual of Remote Sensing, Volume 3, Remote Sensing for the Earth Sciences, NewYork: John Wiley &Sons, Inc. Emergency Management Series, 2001. published by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency, USA),. Lillesand,T.M.&Kiefer,R.W., 2008. Remote sensing and image interpretation, John Wiley&Sons. Longley P A, Goodchild M F, Maguire D J, and Rhind D W (eds) 1999. Geographical Information Systems: Principles, techniques, management and applications.New York, John Wiley. Paul A Longley, Michael F Goodchild, David J Maguire, David W Rhind, 2001. Geographic Information Systems And Science, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, New York. Emergency Management Series 2001. (14 volumes, in Turkish), published by ITU Press. Hyndman, D., 2009. Natural Hazards and Disasters, Second Edition, USA.

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