The Asian Development Bank (ADB) organised and financed a workshop to strenghten knowledge and capacity building on remote sensing applications in Pekalongan (Indonesia) between 5 and 9 December 2022.
The event involved 45 participants from local government agencies, institutions and communities and focused on land subsidence, a phenomenon affecting Pekalongan’s coastal area. The European companies and GDA AID consortia members Planetek Italia and CIMA Research Foundation gave lectures during the workshop, among other stakeholders such as the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and the Indonesian Research Organisation for Aeronautics and Space (ORPA BRIN).
The training enhanced the local government’s capacity to apply Earth Observation to assess and monitor land subsidence, and helped identifying potential solutions to cope with this risk in Pekalongan. Such capacity building efforts, aligned with Earth observation technical developments from programme such as GDA, help scaling up and operationalising the use of EO in development projects.
