Abstract
Recent Progress in GIS and Disaster Management in Japan
Track: Disaster Management and Emergency Response
Author(s): Go URAKAWA
A series of practical and effective systems for disaster response, including an Emergency Map Center and an application to build Victims� Database, have been developed since the 2007 Niigataken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake. This was made possible by tightly integrating technology with disaster management. The expectations toward GIS in disaster management that was strongly hoped for during the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Great Earthquake expectation is finally being realized and established in Japan.
The paper includes the following five topics:
�Local coordination
�Emergency Map Center
�A Proactive Government
�Damage Certificate Issuing System
�Data Integration using GeoWrap
Go URAKAWA
Kyoto University
Gokasho
Uji , Kyoto 611-0011
Japan
Phone: +81-774-38-4545
E-mail: urakawa@drs.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp