Conveners
Invited talks on Civil and Scientific Applications: Invited talk on civil and scientific applications
- Jolanta Kusmierczyk-Michulec (CTBTO Preparatory Commission, Vienna, Austria)
Natural disasters are increasing in frequency and intensity, becoming extreme and complex and have been affecting many countries over recent years. The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes and reaffirms the urgent need to reduce the risk of disasters. The need for modern, multi-hazard disaster response systems to strengthen the national and collective ability to prevent and...
Although the main purpose of the International Monitoring System (IMS) is nuclear explosion monitoring, this unique asset of available global data may also be used for scientific and civil purposes. Scientific applications follow the decision of the CTBTO PrepCom from November 2000, in which it was stated that the PTS may provide IMS data and IDC products to organizations for the purpose of...