Abstract

Construction of Disaster prevention GIS(DGIS) of Korea
Track: Disaster and Emergency Management
Authors: Seong-sam Kim

NEMA (National Emergency Management Agency) of Korea has been required to design and create its own thematic map for effective and systematic national disaster management. For that, NDMI launched a pilot project for construct national Disaster prevention GIS (DGIS). Its major objectives are to build GIS DB for disaster management, design GIS-based analysis process enable to assess disaster risk, finally and generate its own thematic map related on specific disasters.
To conduct the project, we developed DGIS based on ArcGIS 10 server with Flex API in technology of Rich internet Application (RIA) allowed to build its dynamic internet service and REST API to provide a simple and open Web interface to ArcGIS server service.