Title: An earthquake disaster scenario simulation system based on 3-dimensional GIS
Abstract:An earthquake scenario simulation system is designed and developed based on 3-dimensional GIS techniques.According to the features and demands of earthquake rescue in sites,automatic modeling and scen...An earthquake scenario simulation system is designed and developed based on 3-dimensional GIS techniques.According to the features and demands of earthquake rescue in sites,automatic modeling and scenario generation methods based on fundamental geographic data are investigated,and an earthquake scenario model is proposed considering both effect of local site conditions on earthquake ground motion and vulnerability of different buildings.Based on ArcGIS Engine,the system is built with auxiliary functions such as analysis on global seismic damage,prediction of major search and rescue areas and query for key objects in which the scenario of pre-earthquake and post-earthquake can be created automatically and demonstrated intuitively.Using the fundamental geographic data of earthquake areas and basic parameters of the earthquake as input data,the developed system can estimate and analyze the seismic damage of buildings and its spatial distribution in earthquake regions rapidly as soon as getting basic earthquake parameters,and forecast major search and rescue areas subsequently.The proposed system is suitable to use in earthquake search and rescue,which provides efficient support for earthquake emergency commanding.Read More
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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