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ITC News Issue 2008-4 INTRO content introduction Main features If you generally scan a fresh ITC News for reports on international work- DGIM in China 2 shops and conferences, then this issue won’t disappoint. If it’s details of Award for UPM student 6 courses - or particularly new programmes (page 9) - that you’re after, then Education news read on. Awards, new publications, alumni gatherings, all find their place in Land remote sensing 8 the following pages. In fact, such was the array of articles that poured Infrastructure and community through our door that it looked as though space restrictions would consign development 9 some to the holding bay. According to an old saying, you can’t get a quart Transparency in land into a pint pot. But it’s a saying that shows its age: not only because today’s administration 11 sage is unlikely to resort to the use of imperial measures but also because it GIS for spatial territory planning 12 fails to take into account the skills of Design&PrePress. So, dexterous manip- Visits ulation of mouse and menus means yet again we can deliver a newsletter State Minister of Environment varied in content. Indonesia 13 ITC News paints on a broad canvas. The devastating Wenshuan earthquake Events that struck last May, less than three months before Beijing hosted the Sum - Workshop Geomatics engineering 14 mer Olympics, dominated screens and headlines across the world. Page 2 Vietnamese on study tour 15 reports on ITC’s cooperation and activities in disaster geo-information man- Seminar academics and local agement in China, illustrating the role that the Institute can and does play government 16 when such catastrophes occur. Turning to Sri Lanka and a completely differ- Hyperspectral remote sensing 17 ent topic (page 24), the national survey department, which falls under the GEOSS workshop 18 umbrella of the Ministry of Lands and Land Development, has launched the Forty years urban studies 19 second edition of The National Atlas of Sri Lanka, marking yet another mile- AARSE conference 20 stone in its long history. The creation process makes for interesting reading. Announcements Schermerhorn street 22 Milestones were a feature on the home front too. The Dies Natalis celebra- Carranza’s book published 23 tion in December highlighted the 40th anniversary of urban studies at ITC National atlas of Sri Lanka 24 (page 19), and the seminar organised to mark the occasion provided an op- Hissinkprijs for MSc graduate 25 portunity to debate the dynamic and challenging issues facing our “urban Africa GIS conference 2009 26 age”. Within this context, indicators (page 16) are proving to be a useful tool. Partnership news Cooperation agreement CMA 27 Staff, students and alumni of ITC are all familiar with the name of Willem Staff news Schermerhorn, founder of the Institute. In an issue that brings 2008 to close while hovering on the threshold of change, it seems only appropriate to give Woldai fellow Geological Society of Africa 27 fuller coverage to his life and achievements (page 22) - and I’m sure you will Award for Gianluca Miscione 28 discover one or two surprises along the way. Stein honorary professor at CASM 28 Janneke Kalf Welcome to ITC/Staff leaving 28 Managing Editor Life after Award for Xuehua Liu 29 colofon News from ITC NEWS is published quarterly, by ITC, Enschede, the Netherlands Prasun K Gangopadhyay 30 Alumni gathering China 31 Managing Editor: Janneke Kalf Correspondence to: Managing Editor Editor: Jorien Terlouw ITC NEWS Alumni gathering Sri Lanka 31 P.O.Box 6 Alumni gathering Ghana 32 Editing: Janice Collins 7500 AA Enschede Design&PrePress: Henk Scharrenborg Phone: +31 (0)53 487 44 11 (Composer DTP service) Fax: +31 (0)53 487 45 54 Printing: PlantijnCasparie Zwolle E-mail: [email protected] 2008number 4 The views expressed by the contributors do not necessarily reflect those of ITC ITC News 2008-4 1 MAIN FEATURES ITC’s Cooperation and Activities in Disaster Geo-information Management in China Cees van Westen [email protected] In December 2007, Introduction applications, and the organisation of joint CDUT-SKLGP, which specialises in slope sta- courses and workshops. Two of their profes- the United Nations bility, was established in 1991. Since that sors, Professor Tang Chuan and Professor Xu University-ITC School time the laboratory has worked with acade- Qiang, visited ITC in April 2008 in connec- mia and industry partners to develop inte- tion with a visit to the EGU conference in for Disaster Geo- grated research into geohazards. Through Vienna. The first PhD candidate under the implementing projects, SKLGP has con- MoU, Fan Xuanmei, visited ITC for three Information Manage - tributed greatly to eliminating threats to the months in 2008 (May-July) and followed two ment (UNU-ITC DGIM) environment in China, particularly in South - short courses (advanced modelling and west China. It has been very successful in multi-hazard risk assessment). During her and the Chengdu attracting projects funded by the Chinese stay at ITC, she also translated into Chinese government concerning the stability of a part of the RiskCity training package deal- University of slopes in large hydropower projects (e.g. ing with urban multi-hazard risk assessment Technology-State the Three Gorges project). which dealt with landslide hazard and risk assessment. Key Laboratory on SKLGP has built a highly competent and dedicated team of professionals to conduct Wenshuan Earthquake Geohazard Preven- research on geohazard prevention and geo- On 12 May 2008, Sichuan was hit by an tion (CDUT-SKLGP) environmental protection, as well as to facili- earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0, a tate the implementation of the research re- depth of 12 to 18 km, and a rupture zone of signed a Memoran- sults. But it has identified a gap in applying 300 km. The epicentre, near Wenshuan, was advanced technical aspects in this work, par- located at around 100 km northwest of dum of Under- ticularly in the use of GIS and remote sens- Chengdu. The earthquake affected a wide standing ing for hazard and risk assessment. ITC and area in several provinces, with Sichuan being CDUT share an interest in applying geo-in- the most severely hit. Movement took place formation science and earth observation to along three parallel faults, with dextral- disaster management through the UNU-ITC thrust oblique displacement, and with sur- DGIM and the CDUT-SKLGP. The former vice- face fault ruptures up to 8 m vertical and rector of ITC, Dr Niek Rengers, was ap- 6 m horizontal surface displacements. The pointed visiting professor by CDUT-SKLDP maximum peak ground acceleration and visits Chengdu for a number of months recorded was between 1 and 2 g, which is each year. exceptionally large. The earthquake caused 70,000 casualties; an estimated 25,000 of In December 2007, Martin Hale and Cees these were victims of earthquake-triggered van Westen visited Chengdu while Niek landslides. Apart from the damage caused Rengers was also there, and the two organi- by groundshaking and surface fault rup- sations signed an MoU. The MoU focuses on tures, the mountainous area was severely hit research collaboration, upgrading the staff by landslides. In some parts of the area, up of CDUT-SKLGP in GIS and remote sensing to 40% of the terrain was directly affected 2 ITC News 2008-4 MAIN FEATURES which was located on the main faultline. It was hit by the earthquake in the form of groundshaking and surface rupture. The slopes around this city failed catastrophically. On one side, a rick avalanche buried the Beichuan middle school (700 casualties), and on the other side another large landslide covered a large part of the city (1600 casual- ties). Further downstream, a major landslide caused the damming of the river, resulting in the city centre being flooded. After several months, the destabilised slopes around the city were reactivated during a rainstorm event, and debris flows covered the ruins of A rick avalanche buried the Beichuan middle school (700 casualties) part of the city. Beichuan city will not be reconstructed and by landslides, either in the erosion zone or in has been declared a monument site by the the depositional area. Many landslides also Chinese government. The Chinese dammed the rivers. Of these, around 38 very Geological Survey and CDUT-SKLGP have large earthquake-triggered landslide dams made a rapid inventory of landslides and created temporary lakes, which also flooded counted around 10,000 landslides in the several urban areas. As a consequence, the area. The largest of these, the Daguangbao Chinese government evacuated several large landslide in Anxian county, was estimated to cities in the downstream part, as there was have a volume of 742 million m3, creating a fear of lake outburst flooding. One of these landslide dam 570 m high. A total of four cities, Mianyang, had over two million peo- million people are estimated to be homeless ple. after the earthquake, and most of the infra- structure in the area has been lost. The Most of the landslide dams have now been Chinese government has built an estimated broken by the Chinese army, using explosive one million temporary houses (often outside and heavy equipment. Nevertheless, land- the earthquake area), constructed of corru- slide-dammed lakes still exist in many places, gated iron barracks with electricity and although the danger from these has been water supply but no heating. Aid to the af- greatly reduced. Over an area of some 250 x fected counties has been distributed over 50 km, more than 80% of the buildings the various provinces of China. The Chinese have been destroyed, and many villages and government intends to reconstruct the area towns in the area have been completely de- over a period of three to five years.
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