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JDR Vol.5 No.1 pp. 54-65
(2010)
doi: 10.20965/jdr.2010.p0054

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Mobile GIS Application Development for Emergency Damage Assessment in a Disaster

Norihiro Tonosaki*1, Go Urakawa*2, Kei Omura*3,
Yuji Nawa*1, Ryota Hamamoto*1,
and Haruo Hayashi*4

*1ESRI Japan Corporation, 2-7-1 Hirakawa-chou, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0093, Japan

*2Institute of Sustainability Science, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan

*3NTT Data CCS Corporation

*4Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan

Received:
September 21, 2009
Accepted:
January 1, 2010
Published:
February 1, 2010
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Keywords:
GIS, emergency response, filed survey, location information, information processing, mobile GIS
Abstract
The magnitude 6.8 Niigata Chuetsu earthquake occurred on October 23, 2004. A major responsibility of cities in Japan hit by earthquakes is to conduct effective disaster relief while assessing the changing situation. On such assessment requiring large numbers of temporary workers is damage assessment, e.g., of buildings and lifelines. We organized emergency damage investigation, unifying damage investigation and post investigation information processing based on knowledge from GIS-based support by the Kyoto University’s Disaster-prevention Research Institute. The two-part effort consisted of easy-input GIS applications and technology handling information from field damage investigation, automated geographic information and photographic association at disaster sites and creating reports on investigation results. We thus streamlined emergency damage investigation in aiding affected areas.
Cite this article as:
N. Tonosaki, G. Urakawa, K. Omura, Y. Nawa, R. Hamamoto, and H. Hayashi, “Mobile GIS Application Development for Emergency Damage Assessment in a Disaster,” J. Disaster Res., Vol.5 No.1, pp. 54-65, 2010.
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