Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Last year saw extensive flood damage throughout the Brisbane, Australia area. Damage estimates were in the billions of dollars. Infrastructure was destroyed, crops were submerged and the energy industry was impacted significantly. The toll on human life...
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Floods happen, it is a way of Australian life. What we do to reduce the impact on our communities is what matters. Pitney Bowes Business Insight understands the cost and complexity many local authorities face as they...
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
This study used 180 transects perpendicular to over 100 km on the west coast of Aceh, Indonesia to analyze the influence of coastal vegetation, particularly cultivated trees, on the impact of the 2004 tsunami. Satellite imagery; land cover...
Monday, June 6th, 2011
Geographic Information System (GIS) technology is the key to reducing the social and economic tolls of flood, fire and extreme weather events, according to Gary Johnson, Esri Australia Principal Consultant for Financial Services, speaking at the Australian...
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
Earthquake vulnerability tests have been conducted in some 19,000 buildings in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet, the disaster management minister tells parliament. "All the buildings will be examined step by step. Moreover, initiatives have been taken to develop a...
Monday, January 10th, 2011
Geomatics technologies are able to support management and recovery in the aftermath of manmade and natural disasters. However, disaster management also poses big challenges in all aspects of the geo-information cycle, from data acquisition, processing, management and...
