Preface

Abstract

The Geomatics International Conference (GeoICON) is an annual scientific meeting organized by the Department of Geomatics Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya, Indonesia since 2016. Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, the 6th GeoICON 2021 was held virtually on July 27st 2021. The conference had a theme of “Geospatial Technology for Mapping the Future: Solutions for Hazard and Disaster Mitigation. The 6th GeoICON 2021 aims to bring together researchers, scientists, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of geospatial science and technology. The discussion about the practical challenges encountered is performed and the solutions are adopted.During the conference, speakers of the event comes from many backgrounds such as government, industry, and academics. The participants presented their findings in eight main conference topic tracks, i.e. (A) flood modeling, (B) earthquake, (C) extreme weather and climate change, (D) tsunami simulation, (E) landslide and mass movement, (F) capacity strengthening, (G) sea-level rise, (H) temporal shelter model, as well as discussing potential joint research and collaborations among them. We would like to thank the committees for their strong commitment to organizing this event and the participants who have contributed to this volume.We would also like to thank the editor for their time and valuable remarks as well as the reviewers for their suggestions on how to improve the paper. Our gratitude is also expressed to the publisher for the generous help in publishing this proceeding volume. Lastly, we would like to acknowledge all the contributing sponsors for their generous support of the conference.October 28th, 2021Dr. Eko Yuli Handoko ST., MT.The 6th GeoICON 2021Chairman