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International Technical Exchange Team

Outline

The International Technical Exchange Team plans and conducts international training courses on comprehensive flood risk management to enhance organizational capacity development through personal training by using PWRI’s research and human/organizational network. The team also develops training materials and conducts follow-up activities, such as international seminars.

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Staff

Kei Kudou Team Leader
Daisuke KuribayashiSenior Researcher
Hideo YamashitaResearcher

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Research & Activity

Study on Utilization of Satellite-based Topographical Data for Flood Risk Assessment

Developing countries often lack accurate topographic data necessary for water-related disaster risk assessment, and it is hoped that satellite-based topographic data will help those countries overcome this disadvantage. In this study, we will first test SRTM3 of NASA and ALOS of JAXA for reproducibility and then develop a topographic data processing method for each type of the data products to be used for inundation simulation. We will also develop a method for water-related disaster risk assessment which can use satellite topographic data.

Water-related Risk Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program

ICHARM, the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) jointly implement this 1-year Master’s degree program to promote integrated river basin management at all levels from nations to localities.
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Ph.D. Disaster Management Program

ICHARM and the Graduate Institute for Political Strategy (GRIPS) will jointly set up a doctoral program on disaster prevention in October 2010 to develop human resources who can teach and supervise planning and practice of domestic and international strategies and policies in the field of water-related disaster risk management. The students are also expected to become able to train researchers in the field after completing the program. One to three students are planned to be accepted every year. (The application deadline has already passed this year.) For more detail, visit at http://www.grips.ac.jp/pstudents/phd_programs/disaster.html

Other Activities

  • Research on development and dissemination of integrated flood analysis system in developing countries (Priority Project Research)
  • Implementation of JICA Training Program "Local Emergency Operation Plan with Flood Hazard Map"

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Paper

List of papers

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For more information, please contact;

International Technical Exchange Team
Water-related Hazard Research Group
International Centre for Water Hazard and
Risk Management under the auspices of UNESCO

Public Works Research Institute (PWRI)
1-6, Minamihara, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken 305-8516, Japan
Tel: +81-(0) 29-879-6809
Fax: +81-(0) 29-879-6709
E-mail: icharm@pwri.go.jp

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