Volunteered Geographic Information for Disaster Management with Application to Earthquake Disaster Databank & Sharing Platform

[摘要] All phases of disaster management require up-to-date and accurate information. Different in-situ and remote sensor systems help to monitor dynamic properties such as air quality, water level or inundated areas. The rapid emergence of web-based services has facilitated the collection, dissemination, and cartographic representation of spatial information from the public, giving rise to the idea of using Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) to aid disaster management. In this study, with a brief review on the concept and the development of disaster management, opportunities and challenges for applying VGI in disaster management were explored. The challenges, including Data availability, Data quality, Data management and Legal issues of using VGI for disaster management, were discussed in detail with particular emphasis on the actual needs of disaster management practice in China. Three different approaches to assure VGI data quality, namely the classification and authority design of volunteers, a government-led VGI data acquisition framework for disaster management and a quality assessment system for VGI, respectively, were presented and discussed. As a case study, a prototype of VGI oriented earthquake disaster databank & sharing platform, an open WebGIS system for volunteers and other interested individuals collaboratively create and manage the earthquake disaster related information, was proposed, to provide references for improving the level of earthquake emergency response and disaster mitigation in China.

[发布机构] Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, CAS, Beijing; 100094, China^1;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; 100049, China^2;State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing; 210093, China^3

[效力级别] 政治学

[关键词] Disaster management;Disaster mitigation;Earthquake disaster;Earthquake emergency response;Quality assessment;Remote sensor systems;Spatial informations;Volunteered geographic information