Designing Web-enabled services to provide damage estimation maps caused by natural hazards

Gutierrez Corea, Federico Vladimir and Manso Callejo, Miguel Ángel and Lang, Dominik H. and Wachowicz, Monica and Bernabe Poveda, Miguel Angel and Strauch, Wilfried (2010). Designing Web-enabled services to provide damage estimation maps caused by natural hazards. In: "6th Gi4DM Conference: Geomatics for Crisis Management, 2010", 02/02/2010 - 04/02/2010, Turino, Italia. ISBN 978-88-903132-3-3.

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Title: Designing Web-enabled services to provide damage estimation maps caused by natural hazards
Author/s:
  • Gutierrez Corea, Federico Vladimir
  • Manso Callejo, Miguel Ángel
  • Lang, Dominik H.
  • Wachowicz, Monica
  • Bernabe Poveda, Miguel Angel
  • Strauch, Wilfried
Item Type: Presentation at Congress or Conference (Article)
Event Title: 6th Gi4DM Conference: Geomatics for Crisis Management, 2010
Event Dates: 02/02/2010 - 04/02/2010
Event Location: Turino, Italia
Title of Book: Proceedings of the 6th Gi4DM Conference: Geomatics for Crisis Management, 2010
Date: February 2010
ISBN: 978-88-903132-3-3
Subjects:
Freetext Keywords: Natural Hazards, Earthquakes, Damage Estimation, Risk Assessment, OGC, SDI, Internet Service
Faculty: E.T.S.I. en Topografía, Geodesia y Cartografía (UPM)
Department: Ingeniería Topográfica y Cartografía
Creative Commons Licenses: Recognition - No derivative works - Non commercial

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Abstract

The availability of building stock inventory data and demographic information is an important requirement for risk assessment studies when attempting to predict and estimate losses due to natural hazards such as earthquakes, storms, floods or tsunamis. The better this information is provided, the more accurate are predictions on damage to structures and lifelines and the better can expected impacts on the population be estimated. When a disaster strikes, a map is often one of the first requirements for answering questions related to location, casualties and damage zones caused by the event. Maps of appropriate scale that represent relative and absolute damage distributions may be of great importance for rescuing lives and properties, and for providing relief. However, this type of maps is often difficult to obtain during the first hours or even days after the occurrence of a natural disaster. The Open Geospatial Consortium Web Services (OWS) Specifications enable access to datasets and services using shared, distributed and interoperable environments through web-enabled services. In this paper we propose the use of OWS in view of these advantages as a possible solution for issues related to suitable dataset acquisition for risk assessment studies. The design of web-enabled services was carried out using the municipality of Managua (Nicaragua) and the development of damage and loss estimation maps caused by earthquakes as a first case study. Four organizations located in different places are involved in this proposal and connected through web services, each one with a specific role.

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Item ID: 6999
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/6999/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:6999
Deposited by: Memoria Investigacion
Deposited on: 17 May 2011 08:32
Last Modified: 20 Apr 2016 16:06
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