During October 17 to 20, 2019, the 1st International Symposium on Geo-hazards PCP & the 4th International Workshop of China Seismo-electromagnetic Satellite Mission was successfully held in Changsha. The conference was co-sponsored by Central South University (CSU), China Earthquake Administration, China National Space Administration (CNSA) and Italian Space Agency (ISA), and organized by the Surveying and Mapping Discipline and the Lab Geo-hazards PCP of CSU, and the Institute of Crustal Dynamics, China Earthquake Administration. Totally 135 experts and scholars in related fields from China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), Italy, Russia, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Japan and other countries and regions, including those from the European Space Agency and the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO), attended the conference.
Totally 7 keynote speeches, 29 invited reports and 54 oral reports were presented in the conference, demonstrating the frontier progress in the field of Geo-hazards perception, cognition and prediction.
On the morning of October 17, Professor Li Wei, Assistant Principal of the Central South University, Professor Roberto Battiston, Former Director of ISA, Professor Tang Chun'an, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics & Engineering, Dr. Aorpimai Manop, from the Strategic Planning and Project Management Department of APSCO, Professor Huang Qinghua, Executive Director of the Seismological Society of China, and Shen Xuhui, Chief Scientist of the Electromagnetic Satellite Program, attended the opening ceremony and respectively delivered a speech. Professor Wu Lixin from Central South University hosted the opening ceremony.
The conference was intended to strengthen exchanges between scholars from China and abroad in the field of study on geological hazards, with the theme of "Geo-hazards perception, cognition and prediction (PCP)". For purpose of academic exchanges, on the conference, experts shared and exchanged views on the research progress in the fields of crustal stress and rock failure, seismic activity and earthquake precursors, land subsidence and landslide triggering factors, mountain glaciers and Geo-hazards, space weather and ionospheric disturbances, CSES satellite platforms and loads, processing, verification and evaluation of CSES data, geomagnetic field simulation and CSES detection results, electromagnetic waves and wave-particle interactions and LCAI coupling, so as to further strengthen domestic and foreign cooperation research, and promote the research process in the field of Geo-hazards PCP. During the conference, the Geo-hazards PCP Expert Group and the Seismo-electromagnetic Satellite Mission Expert Group held a private session on the issues concerning Geo-hazards perception based on remote sensing data, Geo-hazards cognition based on physical mechanisms, and Geo-hazards prediction through modeling. Relevant research experts expressed their opinions on the frontier research on the Geo-hazards PCP, and they pointed out that Geo-hazards PCP is an international challenge, and the key orientation for the current development is to establish Geo-hazards PCP models by launching electromagnetic satellites, proposing and improving electromagnetic inversion algorithms.
This conference is the first international conference on Geo-hazards PCP, and also the fourth international conference on China Seismo-electromagnetic Satellite. It is reported that the next International Symposium on Geo-hazards PCP will be held in Changsha in 2021.
Source: School of Geosciences and Info-Physics
