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Session
Disasters VI: Panel Discussion II:
Setting priorities for a better understanding and assessment of Extremes and Multi-Hazards
Time:
Thursday, 23/Nov/2023:
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Session Chair: Elody Fluck
Session Chair: Claudia Vitolo
 Location: James Cook

Building 1, ESA-ESRIN

Session Abstract

4:30PM: Session 2.05d: Poster Lightning talks and Open Discussion (optional): Setting priorities for a better understanding and assessment of Extremes and Multi-Hazards (Duration: 1h40)

(Focus: Ask community members to Identify and prioritize scientific requirements related to multi-hazards: how to enhance our understanding to better investigate multi-hazard using current and future EO. -> Focus is on Science)

Chairpersons: Karim Douch and Elody Fluck
Reporter: Katy Burrows

4:30PM-5:00PM: Poster Lightning Talks

1. SDGs-EYES: A Copernicus driven service for monitoring UN SDG indicators (Marco Mancini)
2. Earth Observation for high impact multi-hazards science (Carlos Domenech)
3. Towards a multi-hazard risk assessment of forest disturbances in Finland (Kristin Böttcher)
4. SAR4Wildfire: Sentinel-1 SAR Time Series for Near Real-Time Wildfire Monitoring with Deep Learning (Yifang Ban)
5. Evaluating climate trends of heat extremes using ESA-CCI Land Surface Temperature data: A Case-study of the 2010 Sahelian heatwave (Amina Maroini)

5:00PM-6:00PM: Open Discussion

1.Scientific Definitions: Should the scientific community with diverse backgrounds (geohazards, climate, hydrology ,etc..) agree on definitions of individual hazards (ex: heatwaves, droughts) depending on the context in which they are used? (ex: heatwave with impacts on agriculture ≠ meteorological heatwave)

2. Scientific knowledge gaps:
-From your perspective, could you list and prioritize the scientific knowledge gaps in Climate Adaptation, Extremes, and multi-hazards?
-Is an attribution of multi-hazards to climate change feasible? What could be the first steps?
-How can we facilitate the knowledge transfer from one discipline (ex: geohazards) to another (ex: meteorologists)?

3. Data/sets:
-Which existing data/sets should be preferably used by the science community to study multi-hazard and why?
-Which are the major limitations of these data/sets?
-Data accessibility/sharing: How can ESA facilitate the access to their data?

4. Methodologies & Tools:
- Which tools should be preferably used by the community in studying cross-disciplinary topics?
-What are the limitations of these tools?
-How can we make the community aware of these tools?
-How could we better predict the tipping point when a multi-hazard is about to become extreme?
-Which methods /tools could be used to quantify the total impacts resulting from compound and cascading events?

5. Scientific collaboration:
-How can we improve scientific collaboration and cross-disciplinary approaches in addressing the predominant gaps in EO for multi-hazards and compound events? Can you provide examples where such collaborations have led to breakthroughs in understanding and mitigating cascade events?

6. Science communication:
-How can cross-disciplinary communities better communicate with each other?
-Should ESA organize more workshops and conferences about multi-hazards?

7. Open Call Proposals:
-Which themes should be covered for future Call for Proposals about multi-hazards?


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