WATERLOO INSTITUTE DISASTER MANAGEMENT (WIDM)

“International Geoinformatics Research and Development Journal” (IGRDJ) for June 2012 issue is under preparation and coming soon.

Dr. Maire O Brien, The Director, Training for Asian Business and Management Program of York University and Dr.Said Pirasteh, President of Waterloo Institute Disaster Management had a joint meeting at Dewey College on May 7th, 2012. The Principal of Dewey College, Dr. Donna Zhang welcomed every one for developing the joint programs.  All parties have shown a very successful mutual understanding for running short courses and professional programs in near future. Dr.Pirasteh is very hopeful to start these new launch programs as soon as MoU between parties is signed.

Attending Windsor Presentation at Delta Hotel in Mississauga by Dr. Said Pirasteh, Dr. Donna Zhang: Short report

Dr.Said Pirasteh, The President of Waterloo Institute Disaster Management, and The Principal of Dewey College, attended Windsor University presentation at Delta hotel in Mississauga on April 24th, 2012. The meetings were held with the Windsor University’s authorities to promote the scientific and educational activities. 

On 24th, April 2012, The President of WIDM and Principal of Dewey College visited “York Centre for Asian Research” at York University. Dr. Maire O Brien, The Director, Training for Asian Business and Management Program and Dr. Said Pirasteh, President of WIDM and Director of Programs for Development at Dewey College expressed their interest for developing joint short course programs. Dr. Donna Zhang, Principal of Dewey College mentioned that the College has potential in developing the programs and is diverse toward different field of studies. Also she finds that “Dewey College” can play a key role in conducting short courses in China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand and Middle East.

SASTech and LIDAR

6th SASTech 2012 was held during March 24th-25th, 2012 at Mines Wellness Hotel, Serdang, Malaysia, successfully. More than 100 papers were presented by researchers and speakers from 17 countries. The symposium was officiated by Datuk Prof. Sr Dr. Abdul Kadir Bin Taib, The Director General of Survey and Mapping, Malaysia.  Hot topics were discussed by the participants in the field of Geo-informatics technology on LIDAR Remote Sensing and Applications Workshop at March 25th, 2012. Prof. Jonathan Li from University of Waterloo, Canada delivered presentations on role of LIDAR Technology for development and environment. One day workshop brought a good conclusion to understand a platform for future need of the environment and LIDAR technology.

Dewey Office in Malaysia and Workshop

International Conference on Computer vision in Remote Sensing (CVRS); 16-18 December 2012, Xiamen, China

CVRS2012 Information - Download

Disaster and Emergency Management Seminar, March 9th, 2012, York University

Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2012

http://www.igrdg.com/index.php/archive-of-issues/

Condolence Words from WIDM President

We passed one year from March 11^th, 2011. Japan marks first disaster anniversary of earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 15,000 people and sparked a major nuclear and humanitarian crisis. What did we learn from the past?  Association Geo-information and Communication Technology (AGeoICT) with IGRDJ has mourned and remained silence in office for minutes to remembering the people who were killed by the 2011 disasters in Japan and other parts of the world, whether it is natural or man-made disasters. We MUST believe that a disaster occur when we forget the history. Association Geo-information and Communication Technology with International Geo-informatics Research and Development Journal (IGRDJ) have been trying to share the knowledge of Earth observation and applications of space technology with all scientists and researchers in the world and welcome every one to put a drop of water to flow the river and teach to bring better development for the environment and future generation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7XbKzLMSfo