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Ali Mansourian

Ali Mansourian

Professor

Ali Mansourian

Design and implementation of a Web-based GIS (in response phase) for earthquake disaster management in Tehran City

Author

  • M. Saydi
  • M. J. Valadan Zoej
  • A. Mansourian

Summary, in English

Natural hazards (i.e. earthquakes, floods) become disaster when they strike the man-made environment. To effectively reduce the impact of every disaster, governments prepare a complete strategy, called disaster management. Availability of data such as: buildings, lifeline systems, roads, hospitals and etc, will help the managers to better decision-making. The majority of this data is spatial and can be mapped. So a Geographical Information System (GIS) can support disaster management as a powerful tool for collecting, storing, analysis, modeling and displaying large amount of data. Many organizations which involve in disaster management, require to access to the right data in the right time to make the right decisions. So designing a GIS to distribute geospatial information on a network such as Web, gives a chance to the managers of organizations to easy access to the information about disaster any time and any where they are. This paper outlines different steps of developing a Web-based GIS to manage and response to earthquake in a central district of Tehran as a case study. Lack of a model to estimate the size and extend of damages immediately after earthquakes is one of the major problems in developing such a system. In this research a Building Damage Estimation Model (BDEM) has been developed to optimize the response time and cost against earthquake disaster.

Publishing year

2004-01-01

Language

English

Pages

678-681

Publication/Series

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volume

35

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Physical Geography
  • Remote Sensing

Keywords

  • Disaster
  • Earthquakes
  • GIS
  • Management
  • Web based

Conference name

20th ISPRS Congress on Technical Commission VII

Conference date

2004-07-12 - 2004-07-23

Conference place

Istanbul, Turkey

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1682-1750