The Value of Geo-Information for Disaster and Risk Management (VALID)

Robert Backhaus, Sisi Zlatanova

Book project

Outline

1. Motivation2. Background3. Approach4. Preliminary results5. Outlook

Motivation

• Increased disaster frequency: storms, floods, volcanoes, fires, earthquakes, …

• Tremendous damage to property around the world• Displacements of tens of thousands of people from

their homes.

• Several geo-information technologies can help:– meteorological and Earth observation satellites, – communication satellites – satellite-based positioning technologies– Intelligent Geo-information management analysis

Motivation

• The use of this technologies requires:– political support, – laws and regulations, – institutional responsibility, – trained people.

• One of the major aims of the UN and JBGIS was to ensure this political support

• The first step was the first Booklet

First Booklet : March 2009

• Goal:– To make disaster managers and political

decision-makers aware of the potential and benefits of using geospatial information in every phase of disaster and risk management

• Call for papers: – no lengthy scientific publications but stories

about benefits of technologies, short enough to be read during a coffee break.

Disaster types

• Geophysical: – earthquake, tsunami, volcano, mass movement,

severe storm, flood, fire, drought, extreme temperature

• Biological: – epidemic, insect infestation, vector diseases

• Technological/societal: – pollution (air, soil, water), industrial facilities failure,

terrorist attacks, traffic break down and accidents (air, road, sea).

Selection criteria

About 70 abstracts received…

• Written in a non-scientific language• Show benefits of geo-information• Technology used in real cases• Different phases• Various disasters• Examples from different continents

… 16 abstracts selected

Geographical Distribution of Papers

Different disasters

• Typhoon• Tsunami• Earthquake• Wildfires• Volcano• Flood• Landslides• Dust storms• Humanitarian disaster• Tunnel structure monitoring

We hope the booklet will serve its purpose

Editors: Orhan Altan, Robert Backhaus, Piero Boccardo and Sisi Zlatanova

Objectives of the second book project:The Value of Geo-Information for Disaster and Risk Management (VALID)

• to give evidence of the economic, humanitarian and organizational benefits which can be realized by applying geoinformation to disaster and risk management,

• to raise awareness in the political and

programmatic environment,

• to set priorities in research and development.

Inconsistencies in Disaster Management (DM)

DM Phases DMExpenditure

Efficiency of DMExpenditure

Geo-InformationApplication

Geo-InformationCosts

Geo-Information Cost Factors

Pre-Disaster:• Mitigation• Preparedness - + - +

• GIS application • Complex modeling • Spatial extension• Temporal extension• System integration• System operation

Post-Disaster: • Response & Relief• Recovery & Reconstruction

+ - + - • Spatial/temporal concentration

Geo-Information is mostly applied where it is cheap and less efficient!

Expert Stakeholder Assessment

Editors Group

Design & Dissemination

Analysis & Editing

Literature Review, Case

Study

Monetary Analysis

Scientific Results

Reference Product Profiles

Standardized Appraisals

Publication

Project flow

Namibian case study (2009 Flooding disaster)

Relative importance of geoinformation products/systems in Disaster Management (Top ten shortlist of a 52 items longlist, by a global web-based stakeholder assessment (n=222) )

Hazard Type Product/System CountsFlood Flood Risk Monitoring System 97

Flood Risk Map 95Damage Assessment Map 82Inundation Map 67

Earthquake Urban Classification for Risk Analysis

85

Damage Assessment Map 83Drought Vulnerability Map 76Fire Risk Map 74

Detection and Monitoring 67Landslide Landslide Hazard Assessment 68

Criteria addressed in a detailed web-based stakeholder appraisal of the shortlisted geoinformation products/systems (Analysis of appraisal results ongoing)

Benefits

for operational issues: for strategic issues:

– Humanitarian aid– Health care– Critical infrastructure– Security

– Efficiency of plans and policies– Public acceptance of plans and

policies– Support of superregional

consistency and cooperation – Reducing losses in public

economy– Support of preventive

strategies

Outlook: Envisaged content of the VALID final publication

1. Introduction 2. The economic impact of geo-information to disaster and risk

management 2.1 Global losses and values at stake2.2 Zooming in on a developing country: A case study(3. Ranking of geo-information products and systems for disaster and risk

management: A global stakeholder assessment4. The benefits of geo-information under operational and strategic aspects

of disaster and risk management: An appraisal by the end-users community

4.1 Flood and flood risk: Mapping, monitoring and damage assessment

4.2 Earthquake risk analysis and damage assessment 4.3 Drought vulnerability mapping4.4 Fire risk mapping and fire detection and monitoring 4.5 Landslide hazard assessment 4.6 Costs aspects 5. Overall results synthesis (

Editors Group

Prof. Orhan ALTAN (chair) Istanbul Technical University

Dr. Robert Backhaus United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER)

Prof. Piero Boccardo ITHACA/Politecnico di Torino

Prof. Henk Scholten Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Prof. John Trinder University of New South Wales

Assoc. Prof. Sisi Zlatanova Delft University of Technology

Thank you for your attention!