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Track: Emergency Management and Public Safety
Bambang Rudyanto
United Nations Centre for Regional Development
1-47-1 Nagono, Nakamura-ku
Nagoya, AI 450
JAPAN
Telephone: 81-52-561-9377
Fax: 81-52-561-9375
E-mail: rudyb@uncrd.or.jp
Yujiro Ogawa, Tei Hyodo
A Research on the Disaster Management System from the Great Hanshin Earthquake by Using GIS
Defining Issue: The Japanese government did not respond immediately after the great Hansin earthquake, so it made the circumstances worse. If the disaster happened in a wide area such as Kobe, it might be impossible to observe the whole area manually, and it cannot be done quickly either. The Disaster Management System is a new system to manage the area before the disaster for prevention and after the disaster to minimize the casualties. With the advantages of GIS, even such wide areas can be analyzed quickly. The method can be standardized, and also stored data can be retrieved at anytime. GIS Solution: We collaborated the research with Building Research Institute Ministry of Construction, NASDA, and other agencies in Japan. Methodology: We made the digital map from all categories necessary to analyze building disaster management systems such as geology and fault line map, collapsed buildings map, and so forth. New information can be achieved by overlaying these maps so that the kind of maps
necessary for further disaster management can be evaluated. This application of the disaster management system is necessary even in a developed country like Japan to minimize the causalities from natural disasters and to facilitate a quick response from the government in the event of such natural disasters. Software: This GIS research uses ArcInfo. The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the impact from the Great Hanshin Earthquake and to build a new system of disaster management by using GIS.
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