Report on “Geospatial Capacity Development Conference on GNSS Applications and DRR”

KOJIMA Shuhei, OKI Shoichi, NOJIRI Takuya, UCHIYAMA Yuichi, HANYU Sakae, KATSUDA Eiko, MIYAHARA Basara, FUJIMURA Hidenori, YAMAGIWA Atsushi and NAGAYAMA Toru

    The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) serves as Co-Chair of Working Group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters (WG-Disasters) and lead of Task Group B of WG-Disasters in UN-GGIM, and is a member of the Subcommittee on Geodesy. At UN-GGIM-AP, which is one of its regional committees, the GSI serves as Vice-President, Chair of working group on Geodetic Reference Frame, and Vice-Chair of the working group on Integrating of Geospatial Information and Statistics. Furthermore, in addition to registering two policies in the Japanese government's "SDGs Action Plan", i.e., "Promotion of the Global Geodetic Reference Frame (GGRF)" and "Promotion of partnerships using geospatial information," GSI is also furthering policies related to the Promotion of the GNSS CORS Network introduction overseas in accordance with plans and strategies of the Japanese government, such as the Basic Plan for the Advancement of Utilizing Geospatial Information, the agenda of the Basic Plan for Outer Space, and the 2025 Policy Program for Promotion of Overseas Infrastructure System, etc. .
    Based on its position and policies, the GSI held the "Geospatial Capacity Development Conference on GNSS Applications and DRR" from January 17 (Monday) to 20 (Thursday), 2022, via an online conference with the aim of contributing to the SDGs through capacity development that makes use of our expertise in geospatial information in the fields of GNSS utilization and disaster risk reduction. The conference was held jointly by the GSI, UN-GGIM WG-Disasters and UN-GGIM-AP. On January 17th, the first day, three keynote speeches were given as the opening session. On January 18th and 19th, "Workshop on Geospatial DRR for Decade of Action" and "Workshop on Operation, Maintenance and Applications of CORS” were held. On January 20th, the final day, a session titled "CORS utilization for DRR and other emerging fields by private companies" was held.
    There were 511 pre-registrations from 87 countries (including 37 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, 18 countries in the European region, 19 countries in the African region and 13 countries in the Americas) from NGIAs, UN-GGIM and UN-GGIM-AP officials, the private sectors, academia, UN agencies, etc., and 410 participants connected to the conference during the four days of the conference. There were 511 pre-registrations from UN agencies and other organization, and 410 participants connected to the conference during the four days of the conference. It was an opportunity for the GSI to contribute to the SDGs through capacity development utilizing its expertise in geospatial information in the fields of GNSS utilization and disaster risk reduction, which was the main purpose of this conference.

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