Ali Mansourian
Professor
Design and implementation of a Web-based GIS (in response phase) for earthquake disaster management in Tehran City
Författare
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.
Publiceringsår
2004-01-01
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
678-681
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives
Volym
35
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Ämne
- Physical Geography
- Remote Sensing
Nyckelord
- 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/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1682-1750