The first half-day of the Workshop will provide participants with the raison d’être of the workshop covering both Global Perspective of Why, Where, and How,? as well “Challenges and Needs from Users perspective focusing on Natural Disaster Management Strategies in India?.

The goal of the subsequent Sessions and the Panel presentations from Indian and world-class experts is to update participants on the state-of-the-art in (a) disaster monitoring technologies and (b) sensors and instruments technologies, as well needs and lessons learned from small satellite missions to identify technology Gaps and current challenges related to international collaboration.

Poster sessions featuring presentations from student teams and world experts will further complement the topics covered in the sessions.

The topics covered in the sessions and panel discussions from part 2 will feed into the third part of the workshop: participants will apply the knowledge acquired during the prior sessions and collaborative project white papers, towards formulating and implementing project roadmaps. Finally, as a measure of success of the event, each project team leader will present the findings and outcome from respective collaborative projects.