GIS for Earthquake Disaster Management
Project: Capacity Building of DST, GOI Officials for GIS use in Earthquake Disaster Management
Background
In an effort to support internal capacity building activities of Department of Science and Technology, GOI, and its related agencies to best use spatial data for decision-making for earthquakes prediction and mitigation, CSDMS conducted a capacity building programme for the officials on invitation by DST.
GIS has potential use in various aspects of earthquake related studies such as active tectonics, hazard zonation and damage assessment and even act as possible precursors for earthquake. SRTM data, multi-spectral data, SAR data, IRS stereo data and aerial photos, allow us to map terrain properties, such as crustal deformation, thermal anomaly, geology etc, both temporally and spatially. SAR interferometry and GPS survey are the only avenues for mapping of deformation. High-resolution satellite data can be used in real-time damage assessment. GIS is a key for spatio-temporal analysis of earthquake data for hazard zonation and damage assessment. GIS provides a platform for gathering and organizing the information and hence proven their usefulness in earthquake management.
