Future Frontiers: The Synergistic Road Ahead for Urban Wellbeing by CAG and CODATA and Tonkin & Taylor

Innovations in Geo AI: Case Studies and Success Stories by CAG and CODATA and Tonkin & Taylor

Equity and Accessibility: Democratizing Satellite Insights by CAG and CODATA and Tonkin & Taylor

Sustainable Development Goals: Satellite Data as a Catalyst for Change by CAG and CODATA and Tonkin & Taylor

Satellite Data: From Pixels to Actionable Insights by CAG and CODATA and Tonkin & Taylor

Revealing Earth’s Beauty from Space by CAG and CODATA and Tonkin & Taylor

Open Data Revolution: Empowering Geospatial Innovation by CAG and CODATA and Tonkin & Taylor

In this introduction episode to the podcast series on Open Geo AI, Shaily Gandhi in conversation with Christine Kirkpatrick, reflects on how satellite data which is openly accessible, can be harnessed through advanced AI techniques to address pressing challenges across diverse sectors. Dr. Shaily Gandhi Deputy Center Head, Center for Applied Geomatics, CRDF. She is a GIS expert with more than 11 years of experience. She is a PhD from CEPT University in Geospatial Technology and has expertise in bridging the gap between GIS & governance. Shaily has been recently awarded the Geospatial World 50 Rising Star for the year 2023 by Geospatial World. Shaily is Joint Secretary of ISRS and ISG, Ahmedabad Chapter. She is the student branch counselor for the IEEE GRSS Student branch at CEPT University. She is one of the initiated Leads for CODATA Connect Working group and a co-opted member of CODATA Executive Committee. She has completed her Ph.D. degree from CEPT University in 2018. She has been working on implementation of GIS and data science in the domain of Urban Analytics. Christine Kirkpatrick leads the San Diego Supercomputer Center’s (SDSC) Research Data Services division, which manages large-scale infrastructure, networking, and services for research projects of regional and national scope. Her research is at the intersection of ML and FAIR, with a focus on making AI more efficient to save on power consumption and 'time to science'. Kirkpatrick serves as PI of the FAIR in ML, AI Readiness & Reproducibility RCN which focuses on promoting better practices for AI, improving reproducibility, and exploring research gaps in data-centric AI. Kirkpatrick founded the GO FAIR US Office, is PI of the West Big Data Innovation Hub, is on the Executive Committee for the Open Storage Network, and a Co-PI of the Transboundary Groundwater Resiliency (TGR) network. Christine serves as a member for The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on their Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) to improve the stewardship, policy and use of digital data and information for science and the broader society. She serves as the Secretary General of the International Science Council's Committee on Data (CODATA), co-Chairs the FAIR Digital Object Forum, and serves on the National Academies’ U.S. National Committee for the Committee on Data.

This episode talks about the importance of data for climate change risk assessment and preparing for adversity caused by Climate Change; risk levels can be assessed using vulnerability, exposure, and hazard data. Further, into the episode, the importance of quantitative and qualitative data is also discussed to ensure a holistic risk assessment. Dr. Bapon is Chair of the CODATA Task Group on FAIR-DRR. Ilan Kelman is a Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England, and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest links disasters and health, integrating climate change into both.

This episode talks about the trends of disaster activities and how the Sendai Framework is being adapted globally to monitor disaster loss and understand the risk assessment aspects of the disasters. They also discussed integrating the exposure, risk, and vulnerability data to understand the damage assessment scenarios better. Dr. Bapon is Chair of the CODATA Task Group on FAIR-DRR. Dr. Animesh works for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction as the Bonn's head of office. The UNDRR Bonn Office serves as the organization’s global facility for climate action and comprehensive risk management, disaster data, and monitoring of the Sendai Framework and SDGs.

This episode talks about the role of Social Media Data in expediting emergency relief and the challenges while ensuring effective utilization of the earth observation data and how policy frameworks are one of the driving forces for the same. Dr. Bapon is Chair of the CODATA Task Group on FAIR-DRR. Dr. Shirish Ravan works for the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs in Vienna, Austria, the UN Office dedicated to global space governance and promoting peaceful uses of outer space. He implements international programs facilitating space-based technologies in achieving SDGs, especially disaster and climate resilience.

Learn about data-driven response and recovery, data coordination, historical data management, required resources, and infrastructure. Insights into policies to be adopted to use technology for better disaster prediction. Kanza is a Consultant in Global Public Health for the Global Disaster Risk Reduction and Global Health Security functions at the newly formed UK Health Security Agency. She has extensive experience in epidemiology and statistics, having graduated from the UK Field Epidemiology Training Programme (UK-FETP) in 2020. Dr. Bapon is Chair for CODATA Task group on FAIR-DRR, a trained hydrologist with 17 years of working experience in water engineering, climate, and disaster risk management. His key areas of expertise are hydrological modeling, early warning system, emergency communication, climate-proofing infrastructure, and disaster risk reduction.

This episode talks about the importance of data in hazard modeling and the challenges faced while setting up an early warning system. Dr. Bapon Fakhruddin, Technical Director, Tonkin, and Taylor from New Zealand, co-chair of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), and Jill Bolland, Principal Natural Hazard and Climate Risk Consultant, Tonkin, and Taylor, share their views on the issues related to data quality and inequality in the data distribution, and how access to open data still is a long way to go while dealing with disaster risk assessment on a global scale.

In 2021, Emergency Event Database, the global database on disasters, recorded 432 events related to natural hazards worldwide. The first episode of the podcast series on Data for Disaster Risk Reduction explores data-driven response and recovery, data coordination, management, and required resources and infrastructure. Insights into policies to be adopted to use technology for better disaster prediction. The episode has Yan Wang, Data Stewardship Coordinator at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands and Bapon Fakhruddin, Technical Director, Tonkin and Taylor, New Zealand.

The Center for Applied Geomatics (CAG), CRDF is launching another series on Data for Disaster Risk Reduction that will go in-depth into the systematic use of data for handling disasters and making decisions for post-disaster recovery. It will have 6 episodes where eminent thinkers and practitioners will engage in meaningful discussions and offer their knowledge, case studies, and solutions to mitigate disaster risks. The integral part of the series is to understand how data plays a critical role at stages of disaster management cycle - Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. CAG, CODATA and Tonkin Taylor are jointly hosting this series. The series comes after two successful series on data - Data for Resilient Cities and Data-Knowledge-Action for Urban Systems. The first episode has Professor Virginia Murray, Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction, UK Health Security Agency and Bapon Fakhruddin, Technical Director, Tonkin and Taylor. In the first episode the two speakers will discuss emerging trends in climate change, disaster risks, and the role of data. Data system dynamics, and FAIR data for risk reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and health are discussed. Role of governments for utilisation of data and how International organisations can promote awareness.

In the last episode of Data-Knowledge-Action for Urban Systems, we have Arup Dasgupta, Managing Editor, Geospatial World. The podcast takes a deep dive into the impact of data for making cities healthy and talks about urban health, climate change, and action for policymaking. The podcast series by the Center for Applied Geomatics (CAG), CRDF focused on exploring the intersections of data and its importance for urban wellbeing. Arup Dasgupta is the Managing Editor of Geospatial World magazine. He has more than 50 years of experience in satellite communications, remote sensing and Geospatial systems and applications. He has worked in the Space Applications Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for 34 years and was an adjunct faculty in CEPT University and DAIICT. He is a Life Senior Member IEEE, Fellow IETE, Fellow ISG, Life Member INCA and ISRS. He is the recipient of several national awards from professional societies.

Learn about the quality of life, data for building healthy cities, green spaces, and the impact of climate change on cities' health. Suraj Bhattarai is a public health physician and urban health researcher and a research fellow at the Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, a scientific committee member of the International Science Council’s Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme, and a regional coordinator of the ISUH’s ‘Urban health mapping and analysis project’. Keiko Nakamura, MD PhD, is the Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research and Professor of the Department of Global Health Entrepreneurship, Tokyo Medical and Dental University. She is a public health scholar with over 25 years of experience in research in health and environment in urban areas, with a particular focus on healthy cities and urban policy; determinants of health; population ageing; use of information technology in health services; public health emergencies; planetary health; and implementation science. She has worked with the global Healthy Cities movement since the 1990s.

Insights into the kind of data we use and its value, the role of data in planning cities, and how to mitigate the risk of misuse of data. Andrew Young is the Knowledge Director at The GovLab, where he leads research efforts focusing on the impact of technology on public institutions. Among the grant-funded projects he has directed are global assessment of the impact of open government data; establishing principles and practices to inform responsible handling of children’s data in humanitarian and development contexts; a methodology for leveraging corporate data to benefit the public good; and crafting the experimental design for testing the adoption of technology innovations in federal agencies.

Join the conversation on mobility data, pollution, personal data privacy, cost of traffic on health, data ownership, and the cost of changes in traffic conditions. Ruth is currently a Director at Hocone limited where she collaborates with Australian researchers on the application of ethical and privacy-preserving frameworks in data analytics and AI. She was previously Director of R&D and Data Integrity at Australian Education Technology company Practera where she worked with universities and research organisations to innovate new ways of delivering high-quality work-integrated learning and lifelong learning skills development at scale. At Practera, she established a three-year government-funded multi-disciplinary cooperative research project to develop a privacy-preserving framework for AI and data analytics in the education sector. Paulo Saldiva is a Pulmonary Pathologist and Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo. His research is mainly focused on Urban Health, with a special interest in air pollution, climate and health vulnerability.

In the fourth episode, Dr. Abdalhadi Alijla, social and political science advocate speaks with Rachel Cooper OBE, Distinguished Professor of Design Management and Policy, Lancaster University about important factors for wellbeing of cities. They also discuss the quality of data, GIS data, and the role of data-knowledge-action for urban systems in policy-making. Abdalhadi Alijla is a social and political scientist and science advocate. He is the recipient of the 2021 International Political Science Association Global South Award. Alijla is the Co-Leader of Global Migration and Human Rights at Global Young Academy. He is a co-founder of Palestine Young Academy in 2020. He is an Associate Researcher and the Regional Manager of Varieties of Democracy Institute (Gothenburg University) for Gulf countries. He is a Post-doctoral fellow at the Orient Institute in Beirut (OIB). Since 2021, he is an associate fellow within SEPAD, sectarianism, proxies and de-sectorisation at Lancaster University. Since April 2018, He also serves as an Associate Research Fellow at the Post-Conflict Research Center in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Abdalhadi has a PhD in political studies from the State University of Milan and an M.A. degree in Public Policy and Governance from Zeppelin University- Friedrichshafen, Germany. He has been granted several awards and scholarships, including DAAD (2009), RLC Junior Scientist (2010), UNIMI (2012), ICCROM (2010), Saud AL-Babtin(2002) among others. Rachel Cooper OBE is a Distinguished Professor of Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University. She is founding Director of ImaginationLancaster, http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk, an open and exploratory design-led research centre conducting applied and theoretical research into people, products, places and their interactions. Her research interests cover design thinking; design management; design policy; and across all sectors of industry, a specific interest in design for wellbeing and socially responsible design. She has published extensively on these topics, including books, 'Designing Sustainable Cities', 'The Handbook of Wellbeing and the Environment and ‘Living in Digital Worlds; designing the digital public space’. She has attracted over £25m in research funding in the past 10 years, much of which has focused on the future of cities and human and planetary wellbeing. Professor Cooper has undertaken several advisory roles to national and international universities, government and non-governmental organisations. She was a Lead Expert for the UK Government Foresight Programme on the Future of Cities (2013-2016), was on the UK Academy of Medical Sciences Working group addressing ‘The Health of the Public 2040’ (2015-16) and is a currently a Chair of the UK Prevention Research Partnership, Scientific Advisory Board.