Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Let me inform you that as an invited Guest Editor of the  ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, I described motivation and prepared topics for Special Issue:

Smart Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction: Big Data Concepts for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2017

Webpage: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/disaster_risk

I look forward for your active participation.

Milan Konecny

Prof. Dr. Milan KONECNY
Former Acting President, International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE)

Former President, International Cartographic Association (ICA)
Counsellor, International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE)
Chairman of ICA Commission Cartography on Early Warning and Crises Management
Director ; Laboratory on Geoinformatics and Cartography, Masaryk University , Brno , Czech Republic
Knight of Brazilian Cartography
Dr.h.c., University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG), Sofia, Bulgaria
Honorary Professor, Siberian State Academy of Geodesy (SSGA), Novosibirsk, Russia
Honorary Member of Spanish Society for Cartography, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Academician, Vice-President of International Eurasian Society of Sciences

ICA Honorary Fellow 2013

Award for contributors to the development of the Bulgarian Cartographic Association 

Yellow River Friendship Award, Henan Province, China, 2014