REMOTE SENSING AND GIS TECHNOLOGIES FOR MONITORING AND PREDICTION OF DISASTERS

Part 1: Use of Geo-Information technology in large disasters .................9

1. Geoinformation-Based Response to the 27 May Indonesia Earthquake – an Initial Assessment.................................................11
Norman Kerle and Barandi Widartono



2. The Application of Geo-Technologies after Hurricane Katrina.............................................................................25
Henrike Brecht

3. Application of Remote Sensing for Damage Assessment of Coastal Ecosystems in India due to the December 2004 Tsunami ..............................................................................................37
Shailesh Nayak and Anjali Bahuguna

4. Increasing the Use of Geospatial Technologies for Emergency Response and Disaster Rehabilitation in Developing Countries ........................................................................57 David Stevens




Part 2: Remote Sensing Technology for Disaster Monitoring................73

5. Adopting Multisensor Remote Sensing Datasets and Coupled Models for Disaster Management.....................................75
Gilbert L. Rochon, Dev Niyogi, Alok Chaturvedi, Rajarathinam Arangarasan, Krishna Madhavan, Larry Biehl, Joseph Quansah and Souleymane Fall

6. Nearshore Coastal Processes Between Karwar and Bhatal, Central West Coast of India: Implications for Pollution Dispersion.........................................................................................101 Viswanath S. Hedge, G. Shalini, Shailesh Nayak and Ajay S. Rajawat

7. Landslide Hazard Zonation in Darjeeling Himalayas: a Case Study on Integration of IRS and SRTM Data ..................121
Mopur Surendranath, Saibal Ghosh, Timir B. Ghoshal and Narayanaswamy Rajendran

8. Monitoring and Interpretation of Urban Land Subsidence Using Radar Interferometric Time Series and Multi-Source GIS Database....................................................................................137
Swati Gehlot and Ramon F. Hanssen

9. Extending the Functionality of the Consumer-Grade GPS for More Efficient GIS and Mapping Applications......................149
Robert M. Mikol

Part 3: System Architectures for Access of Geo-Information...............165

10. Interoperable Access Control for Geo Web Services in Disaster Management......................................................................167
Jan Herrmann

11. Spatial Data Infrastructure for Emergency Response in Netherlands..................................................................................179
Henk Scholten, Steven Fruijter, Arta Dilo and Erik van Borkulo

12. Geocollaboration in Hazard, Risk and Response: Practical Experience with Real-Time Geocollaboration at Québec Civil Security....................................................................................199 Charles Siegel, Donald Fortin and Yves Gauthier

13. On-line Street Network Analysis for Flood Evacuation Planning............................................................................................219
Darka Mioc, François Anton and Gengsheng Liang

14. Multi-user tangible interfaces for effective decision-making in disaster management...................................................................243
Harmen Hofstra, Henk Scholten, Sisi Zlatanova and Alessandra Scotta

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Remote Sensing and GISTechnologies for Monitoringand Prediction of Disasters