Abstract

Disaster management using satellite imagery at Korea
Track: Disaster and Emergency Management
Authors: JungHum YU, Changwon Choi

Number of disaster was increasing due to the climate changes and the public harm due to disaster was increased. Large scale disaster such as heavy snow, drought and typhoon is issue in Korea. Early 2014, eastside of Korea had heavy snow disaster and we lost citizen and other facilities. Snow disaster is depending on the snow condition between wet and dry snow. The snow condition detection method was developed using satellite image and ground weather observation data in NDMI.