Expert Workshop: Swiss Crisis Mapping

This workshop was conducted jointly by the Federal Office of Civil Protection (FOCP), ETH Zurich, and the Institute of Geomatics
Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland for the benefit of select experts from the areas of
disaster and risk management, new communications and information technologies, and cartography and geoinformatics. The workshop participants discussed current developments in the area of crisis mapping with experts from various disciplines. The primary focus was on gaining a broad range of perspectives on crisis mapping in the context of Switzerland and to debate the question of networking among the actors concerned as well as possibilities for more extensive cooperation.