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<td>[SDI-Africa] South Africa: Digital Elevation Models and
Disaster Applications Workshop</td>
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<td>Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:26:12 +0000 (UTC)</td>
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<td>Kate Lance via SDI-Africa
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sdi-africa@lists.gsdi.org"><sdi-africa@lists.gsdi.org></a></td>
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<td>Kate Lance <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lancekt@aya.yale.edu"><lancekt@aya.yale.edu></a>, Kate Lance
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:klance_remote@yahoo.com"><klance_remote@yahoo.com></a></td>
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<td>SDI-Africa <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sdi-africa@lists.gsdi.org"><sdi-africa@lists.gsdi.org></a></td>
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<div id="yiv6258574220yui_3_16_0_1_1426187621648_30234">South
Africa: Digital Elevation Models and Disaster Applications
Workshop<br>
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font-size: 16px;">A Digital Elevation Models and Disaster
Applications Workshop is being hosted by South African
National Space Agency (SANSA) at SANSA Space Operations at
Hartesbeeshoek, Gauteng, South Africa, from March 23 to
27, 2015. <br>
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Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS, <a
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Group on Capacity Building and Data Democracy (WGCapD, <a
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The primary objective is to take advantage of the 30m SRTM
topographic data and develop capacity within SADC to use
the elevation model in different applications with a
specific emphasis on flood modelling. Course participants
will include two course coordinators from the Brazilian
Space Agency (INPE) and the University of Colorado in the
US, as well as 20 participants from the SADC region. </div>
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at the 25th CEOS Plenary in 2011. The activities of the
group are aligned with the four pillars of the Data
Democracy Initiative Mission (DDIM) and aims to unify CEOS
efforts toward:</div>
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access to Earth observation data<br>
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as open source software and open systems interface</div>
<div class="yiv6258574220"
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and transferring relevant technologies to end users</div>
<div class="yiv6258574220"
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education and training (including awareness and
outreach) to end users to gather information and
increase their communication of the results.</div>
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href="http://ceos.org/document_management/Working_Groups/WGCapD/Meetings/WGCAPD_SRTM-Workshop-Africa_Mar2015/WGCapD_SRTM-Workshop-Africa-Agenda-v3_Mar2015.docx"
id="yiv6258574220yui_3_16_0_1_1426187621648_30532">http://ceos.org/document_management/Working_Groups/WGCapD/Meetings/WGCAPD_SRTM-Workshop-Africa_Mar2015/WGCapD_SRTM-Workshop-Africa-Agenda-v3_Mar2015.docx</a></div>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:patrick.obrien@noaa.gov">patrick.obrien@noaa.gov</a> or <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:psibandze@sansa.org.za">psibandze@sansa.org.za</a><br
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