Abstract
Abstract. In July 2, 2018, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) adopted a resolution of the strategic framework of disaster risk reduction. Many seismic countries have experienced challenges with natural hazards, such as earthquakes every year. Seismic safety monitoring and infrastructures, including building vulnerability assessment of earthquake are significant means to protect the safety of people and reduce the loss of property. We present cloud-based Geospatial Information Technologies in this study to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 in earthquake disaster loss reduction, mitigation, and resilience. The authors investigated and programmed the instruction building codes of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. We developed sophisticated algorithms to construct a geospatial cloud-based system to support the implementation of disaster risk reduction for strengthening infrastructures and resiliency of pre and post-earthquakes. However, the content is entirely based on the understanding of geospatial knowledge, engineering, and services to the people for a better world for future generations. The objectives of this study are to (1) participate in global sharing of experiences on utilizing geospatial information technologies to address disasters resilience and challenging issues of determining the vulnerability of buildings and estimation of risk as well as recommendation for retrofitting; and (2) developing Geospatial Infrastructure Management Ecosystem (GeoIME) including, Geospatial Rapid Visual Screening (GeoRVS) cloud-based platform. They enable the determination of the vulnerability of infrastructures, such as buildings and the estimation of risk for disaster reduction and management. This study shows that we reduced the cost and time for inspecting a building by 75% and %80, respectively. The application of this study can be used for retrofitting and rehabilitation of infrastructures like buildings and bridges for before and after earthquakes. Finally, we propose recommendations that might be helpful to countries having similar issues, and it has great potential for scalability and customization in other disasters such as floods.
Highlights
Today’s challenges push everyone to ponder how we, as people living on the Earth, should play a role in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to transform research into real-life practices for improved condition and a better way of living together with peace in a better world
It integrates geospatial technologies with engineering disciplines for risk assessment. It implements our proposed Geospatial Infrastructure Management Ecosystem (GeoIME)/Geospatial Rapid Visual Screening (GeoRVS) techniques to determine the vulnerability of infrastructures, including buildings, and estimates the risk
The proposed platform generates maps and recommendations including reports for strengthening the infrastructure such as buildings, increase mitigation of hardware and software infrastructures for disaster monitoring and warning. It supports the disaster prevention process within the context of SDGs 2030. In this novel GeoIME integrated platform, we focus on the GeoRVS techniques that can contribute to the loss reduction and emergency response implementing SDGs 2030
Summary
Today’s challenges push everyone to ponder how we, as people living on the Earth, should play a role in SDGs to transform research into real-life practices for improved condition and a better way of living together with peace in a better world. Many scientists (Barzangi 1989; Kijko and Sellevoll 1992; Berberian 1994; Berberian 1995; Zhenzhong and Lanmin 1995; Ambrasys et al 1996; McClusky 2000; Maiti 2001; Saraf et al 2002; Ali and Pirasteh 2004; Pirasteh et al 2008; Alam et al 2009; Pirasteh et al 2009; Sadra et al 2014; Pirasteh et al, 2015) work on challenges at the various scales by using the geospatial technologies in emergency preparedness and response They examined the challenges that occur between human and their environment under the conditions suspected to be hazardous to life and habitat. It recommended priorities for the research, the educational, and the policy contributions insight emergency preparedness and response that to be documented
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