Disseminating near-real-time hazards information and flood maps in the Philippines through Web-GIS

作     者：Alfredo Mahar Francisco A.Lagmay Bernard Alan Racoma Ken Adrian Aracan Jenalyn Alconis-Ayco Ivan Lester Saddi 

作者机构：National Institute of Geological SciencesUniversity of the PhilippinesPhilippines 

出 版 物：《Journal of Environmental Sciences》 (环境科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2017年第29卷第9期

页      面：13-23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）] 081504[工学-水利水电工程] 08[工学] 0815[工学-水利工程] 

基　　金：the Department of Science and Technology Grants in Aid program for funding the Web-GIS project 

主　　题：Web-GIS Project NOAH Disasters 

摘      要：The Philippines being a locus of tropical cyclones, tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, is a hotbed of disasters. These natural hazards inflict loss of lives and costly damage to property. Situated in a region where climate and geophysical tempest is common, the Philippines will inevitably suffer from calamities similar to those experienced recently. With continued development and population growth in hazard prone areas, it is expected that damage to infrastructure and human losses would persist and even rise unless appropriate measures are immediately implemented by government. In 2012, the Philippines launched a responsive program for disaster prevention and mitigation called the Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards（Project NOAH）, specifically for government warning agencies to be able to provide a 6 hr lead-time warning to vulnerable communities against impending floods and to use advanced technology to enhance current geo-hazard vulnerability maps. To disseminate such critical information to as wide an audience as possible, a Web-GIS using mashups of freely available source codes and application program interface（APIs） was developed and can be found in the URLs http：//*** and http：//***/. This Web-GIS tool is now heavily used by local government units in the Philippines in their disaster prevention and mitigation efforts and can be replicated in countries that have a proactive approach to address the impacts of natural hazards but lack sufficient funds.