The Caribbean Risk Assessment & Open Geospatial Data Management Workshop will bring together practitioners from the fields of disaster risk modeling, geospatial analysis and information systems. The goal of this workshop is to improve the risk modeling practice as well as data management systems to support national and regional decision making for reducing risk to hazards. In partnership with the Caribbean Risk Atlas Project team at the University of West Indies (UWI) - Jamaica, and the Geomatics Engineering and Land Management department of the University of West Indies (UWI) - Trinidad and Tobago, this two-day regional activity will focus on:

a) Progress and challenges in conducting hazard and risk assessments for the Caribbean Risk Atlas project, particularly on the issues of exposure modeling and vulnerability modeling. The goal of the Risk Atlas Project is to build capacity on applications of results from risk assessments in DRM decision-making and to build capacity within the Caribbean for conducting hazard and risk assessments, including hurricanes, earthquakes and floods.

b) Geospatial data management practices in the Eastern Caribbean using GeoNode (a central data depository and open-source software) to improve evidence based platform to inform decision-making for improved physical planning and engineering designs, and increasing accessing to data to enable better policies and development plans. This is a follow-up to a GeoNode training and the Eastern Caribbean Open-Source Geospatial Data Sharing and Management Workshop that took place in Grenada, October 2011.

The support for this initiative is based on the coordination of regional development agencies and centers of excellence in the region, including the Caribbean Risk Atlas project team, UWI Disaster Risk Reduction Center (DRRC), UWI Geomatics Engineering Department, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology & Hydrology (CIMH), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Seismic Research Center (SRC), Mona GIS/ Geoinformatics Institute, OpenGeo, GFDRR and The World Bank.

Event Documents

 Agenda

 Participant List

 Workshop Objectives

 Building Data Classification Progress & Challenge (Adams, W.)

 CAPRA (Salgado, M.)

 Data Mapping & Exposure Modeling (Saito, K.)

 DRM & Open DRI (Opadeyi, J.)

 Geoformatics & Exposure Modeling (Opadeyi, J.)

 Intro to Open DRI (Safaie, S)

 Lidar Overview (Saito, K.)

 Risk Atlas - Seismic Risk (Higgins, M.)

 Risk in a Box (Nuñez, A.)

 Seismic Risk Modeling (Salazar, W.)

 Vulnerability Modeling (Salgado, M.)

 Vulnerability Modeling - Earthquake (Salgado, M.)

 Dominica (Edwards, E.; La Roque, N.)

 Jamaica (Dixon, T.)

 Saint Lucia (Joseph J.; Alexander, M.)