Dr. Imon Chowdhooree, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture was invited to attend the International Training Workshop on Big Earth Data for Disaster Risk Reduction, which was conducted under the “Digital Belt and Road” Program (DBAR), jointly organized by Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) International Programme Office (IPO), IRDR China National Committee (IRDR CHINA), Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI),Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) and CAS-TWAS Centre of Excellence on Space Technology for Disaster Mitigation (SDIM). It was held from 30 October to 5 November 2018 in Beijing, China. The workshop aimed at strengthening the experience of Big Earth Data applications for Disaster Risk Reduction, and to enhance the use of various data in DRR application platform. The workshop provided a scientific and practical guide on DRR to twenty participants from seventeen developing countries along the Belt and Road. As a part of the workshop Dr. Chowdhooree also attended the Second International Science Forum of National Scientific Organizations on the Belt and Road Initiative on 4 and 5 Novermber, 2018.
Figure 1 Dr. Chowdhooree (3rd from right) is with other participants and representatives of the organizing institutes