Understanding global natural disasters and the role of earth observation

作     者：Huadong Guo 

作者机构：Center for Earth Observation and Digital EarthChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100190China 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Digital Earth》 (国际数字地球学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2010年第3卷第3期

页      面：221-230页

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学科分类：083002[工学-环境工程] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 08[工学] 

基　　金：supported by the IAP and the National Basic Research Development Program of China(Grant No.2009CB723906) 

主　　题：natural disaster earth observation digital earth 

摘      要：Since earthquakes,tropical storms,and floods are the three main global natural disasters causing the biggest loss,they should be the main focus of research in disaster science and disaster mitigation and *** paper discusses the characteristics of these three global natural disasters from a scientific point of view,and analyses their patterns of distribution,origin and result,as well as the extent of their damage and measures of disaster mitigation and *** paper,at the technical level,introduces the role of earth observation(EO)technologies in disaster mitigation,and real and quasi-real-time monitoring and assessment using advanced optical and microwaveEOcapacities,while digital earth technologies provide avery important role in rapidly acquiring spatial information of the disaster *** paper concludes by discussing the relationship between man and natural disasters,and proposes the viewpoint that man and nature should be able to harmoniously coexist,and the importance of understanding disasters from an earth system science perspective so as to better meet the challenges of natural disasters.