ESSO - Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services

Overview:

Geospatial science provides vital information on the sustainable use of the coastal resource and planning. It an imperative use such techniques for managing densely populated coastal environs. This course provides an overview of GIS applications pertaining to coastal vulnerability and analysis. It will provide the basic GIS mapping techniques on storm surge vulnerability, and its socio-economic impact using open source GIS tools. Course also includes data acquisition, processing, analysis and interpretation of coastal spatial data. In addition, extensive hands on sessions will be conducted to use tools for preparation of thematic base maps for coastal vulnerability due to Tsunamis, Storm surges and their impact.

Aims and Objectives:

• To Provide an introduction to GIS for marine applications
• Utilization of open source spatial data
• To provide hands on GIS applications pertaining to coastal vulnerability (Storm surges) using open source GIS tools
• Generation of Coastal Vulnerability and their socio-economic Impact map

Learning Outcomes:

• Knowledge on understanding of spatial data: raster and vector models
• Core tasks involved in the GIS analysis process including data acquisition, management, manipulation and analysis, and presentation and output.
• Use of QGIS, GRASS tools and Plug-in tools
• Creating and editing spatial data.
• Basic understanding of coastal and marine GIS data applications.

Lecturers:

• Mr. R. S. Mahendra
• Mr. N. Kiran Kumar
• Dr. N. Srinivasa Rao
• Dr. Prakash C Mohanty
• Mr. H. Shiva Kumar
• Mr. V. Chandra Sekhar
• Mr. Gaurav Khairnar
• Ms. Gautami Ganga

Target Audience:

Target audiences include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Ocean and coastal data managers .
• Staff and researchers working on marine GIS applications.
• University graduates.

NOTE: priority will be given to participants originating from the Indian Ocean Rim countries. UNESCO is committed to promote gender equality: applications from women are strongly encouraged.

Course Pre-requisites :

• Candidates should have a working knowledge of marine data and formats and preferably be working in institutions responsible for the management of marine data.
• This training course is not an introduction to GIS so candidates are expected to have some previous experience in the use of GIS.
• Working knowledge of English.
• Participants should preferably bring their own laptops.

A certificate of participation will be issued to all successful students (90% attendance to the classroom course mandatory).
The UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE is certified as a Learning Services Provider (ISO 29990:2010).
The OceanTeacher Global Academy is a Project of IOC/IODE supported by the Flanders-UNESCO Trust Fund (FUST) of the Government of Flanders, Belgium.

Course Dates :

25-29 November 2024

Duration:

5 working days (~ 30 hours classroom sessions, plus eventual online assignments)

Period for Applications:

17 June – 10 July, 2024

Application Process :

A limited number of seats (30) is available.Please fill the online application form:https://oceanexpert.org/event/4301The deadline to submit the application is 10 July 2024 (23:59 CET: Central European Time). There are no tuition fees.

UNESCO is committed to promote equal access principles. Applications from minority or underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged.

A limited number (up to 5 seats depending on costs) of fellowships for international participants is available (partial or in full). For international participants requesting financial support (full or partial), a dully signed endorsement letter from the institution where the applicant is working is mandatory, to be uploaded on the online application form (email not accepted). Failure to submit it will imply automatic exclusion.

Contacts :

• OTGA India Regional Training Centre Coordinator: Dr TVS Udaya Bhaskar (itcoocean@incois.gov.in)
• OTGA Secretariat: ioc.training@unesco.org

always using as the email subject line the OTGA/INCOIS Training Course: Coastal Vulnerability Mapping and analysis using QGIS Training Course 25-29 November 2024

Useful sites:

• www.ioc-cd.org
• www.oceanteacher.org
• www.oceanexpert.org
• http://www.incois.gov.in/portal/ITCOocean.jsp

Agenda / Programme :

Time	Day-1 (25-11-2024)	Day-2 (26-11-2024)	Day-3 (27-11-2024)	Day-4 (28-11-2024)	Day-5 (29-11-2024)
09:30 to 11:00	Inauguration and Coastal Vulnerability using Remote Sensing and GIS (Mr. R.S. Mahendra)	Basics of Remote Sensing (Dr. N Srinivasa Rao)	Geospatial Technologies and WebGIS Applications (Mr. Kiran Kumar)	GIS - practical (Mr. V. Chandra Sekhar)	Practical- Shoreline Change Analysis. (Dr. Praksh Mohanty)
11:00 to 11:30	Tea Break
11:30 to 13:00	Introduction to Operational Ocean Services of INCOIS ( Dr. Nimit Kumar )	GIS - practical (Mr. V. Chandra Sekhar)	Practical -pre processing and Image classification (Mr. H. Shiva Kumar)	Practical- Tsunami Vulnerability Mapping (Mr. R.S. Mahendra)	Practical- Storm Surge Vulnerability Mapping (Dr. Praksh Mohanty)
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 15:30	Basics of GIS ( Mrs. Gouthami Ganga )	Image Processing ( Dr. N. Srinivas Rao )	Practical -pre processing and Image classification (Mr. H. Shiva Kumar)	Extraction of Shorelines using Geospatial Techniques ( Mr. H. Shiva Kumar)	Group Presentation and Evaluation
15:30 to 16:00	Tea Break
16:00 to 17:00	Basic GIS practicals (QGIS Basics) ( Mrs. Gouthami Ganga )	GIS - practical ( Mr. V. Chandra Sekhar )	Introduction and data analysis with Google Earth Engine (Mr. Gaurav Khairnar)	Visit to INCOIS Facilities	Validatory and Closing
17:00 to 17:30	Discussion on day 01 proceedings, Q&A	Discussion on day 02 proceedings, Q&A	Discussion on day 03 proceedings, Q&A