Dr Emlyn Hagen

Disaster Risk Reduction Program Manager
iMMAP

Dr. Emlyn Hagen is presently leading the USAID Funded iMMAP Disaster Risk Reduction Program. He is the principal architect and manager of the Afghanistan Spatial Data Center (ASDC), the most comprehensive and advanced Geo-Information platform for Afghanistan. In December 2016 the ASDC was officially launched at the US Embassy in Kabul by the USAID Mission Director and the Minister of Disaster Management. The 8-staff program primary goal is to provide support the National Security Council, governmental institutions, UN agencies, NGOs and embassies.

Since 2007, Emlyn has supported the NATO CI Agency Geospatial Services unit as a scientist and consultant. He worked both in theater support specifically for Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan as well as on various NATO GIS/RS internal research projects. The design and execution of the “Afghanistan Flood Hazard Map” project was highly visible. The work was nominated for the World Future Foundation (WFF) award 2011.

For 5 years Emlyn was the Lead Geographic Information Manager for the Shell Oil operations in Jordan. The 6-person unit provided Geo-services to 40 geo-staff located in Houston and Amman. His work on "Communication Access and Proximity Maps" was nominated for the Shell CEO Global HSSE Award. This resulted into effective and safe operations for the 300 staff exploring on an area of 22,720 km2, the drilling of hundreds of wells and more than 4 million km driven without incidents in hostile desert environment. Additionally, he was the Geomatics Technical Adviser of a 1.2 Billion US$ project.

Since his initial research at the DLR (German Aerospace Center) and CRISP (Remote Sensing, Singapore), Emlyn has continued to provide innovative GIS solutions for Security and Disaster Management. He has published two books and multiple peer reviewed scientific papers.

Emlyn was born in Belgium and currently lives in Augsburg, Germany; he acquired his PhD at the NUS Singapore and MSc at the University of Munich.

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Key Developments in Crowd, Human, Open, Social and Volunteer Geospatial Information

Monday, January 23rd, 2017

5:15 PM Who Has the Data: the Role of NGOs in Providing Mission Essential Data

Find out how specialized Information Management NGOs, such as iMMAP, are supporting and bringing structure to mission essential data held by the humanitarian community.

With the availability of remote sensing and data mining, it is still surprising how often the most elementary disaster risk management information is inaccessible: e.g. location of hospitals or warehouses, flood zones, GSM coverage or security incidents. Humanitarian response campaigns, often involving international military, rely on such core datasets to support their decision making process.

In Afghanistan iMMAP is the largest international information management/mapping agency. It supports UN Agencies, NGOs, embassies and the government with data collection, processing, analysis and coordination. To disseminate mission essential data iMMAP created the Afghanistan Spatial Data Center, which is currently used by more than 100 organizations for emergency response, disaster risk management and forecasting.

iMMAP in Afghanistan is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA).

Geospatial Intelligence for Regional and Global Security

Wednesday, January 25th, 2017

3:15 PM Panel Discussion: Civil-Military Co-operation on Geospatial Information Sharing for Emergencies and Crisis Response

Find out how to influence the way you cooperate with different agencies in future operations by hearing lessons learned from experts from different operational backgrounds. Drawing on recent experiences in the Europe and the Middle East representatives from the UN, an NGO and the EU will provide up-to-date technical, human and policy perspectives.

Lessons learned from operations where military and non-military organisations have succeeded and failed
How relationships between military and non-military organisations are being refashioned to enable greater interoperability and trust
What is missing from the relationships that you can personally influence from your organisation?
How can technology play a role in future cooperation and collaboration?