Training

ZKI offers - amongst various other services - training on GIS based rapid mapping and satellite image interpretation techniques. The target audience are personnel of national and international relief organisations as well as governmental agencies interested in disaster management and emergency response to natural hazards and humanitarian disasters. The offered short term technical training courses are tailored to the client's needs and vary from acquainting the participants with satellite image interpretation methods to rapid mapping techniques in emergency response for professionals. The main goal is to enable and strengthen the competence and expertise of decision makers, coordinators and emergency relief workers to make use of spatially derived information in coordination and implementation of emergency response.

In terms of capacity building ZKI organises training for users of different levels (disaster management teams, assessment teams, technical search and rescue teams) and different communities (UN, Civil Protection, Humanitarian Aid) in the context of projects, such as RESPOND, a project funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) within the European GMES initiative (Global Monitoring of Environment and Security), LIMES (Land/Sea Integrated Monitoring for European Security) and LinkER (Supporting the Implementation of Operational GMES Services in Emergency Response). ZKI is also involved in UN-Spider Technical Missions focussing on Disaster Management and Capacity Building. Further trainings have been carried out together with national and international government agencies to raise awareness on spatial information - derived by earth observation methods - for better utilisation of ZKI products such as emergency and crisis maps as well as geoinformation for emergency response and relief activities during natural and humanitarian disasters.

Last but not least ZKI offers a comprehensive internal training program for DLR personnel to continuously strengthen capacities and realise certified quality of rapid mapping in terms of disaster response inside DLR.