Abstract
Landslides cause significant human and environmental damage, as well as unpredictable damage to structures and buildings. This paper presents the development and application of a web-based system for risk management in landslide-related emergency preparedness. This system allows for easy access to information, even in hard-to-reach regions, by integrating mobile internet devices, like cell phones and tablets, with GPS systems, without requiring cartography or geoprocessing for its operation. Furthermore, in cases of imminent risk, the system can help prioritize the emergency response, so that scarce response resources can be allocated to the most vulnerable areas. A case study is carried out, demonstrating the benefits and difficulties of implementing this system for emergency response decision-making in urban scenarios with geotechnical risks.
Highlights
Such disasters have caused death and economic damage, as shown in Table 2, which is taken from global landslide data from the Emergency Event Database (EM-DAT)
Georeferences of 95,120 buildings in the studied area were created with a Location-Based Service (LBS) application, employing GPS equipment
The Web-Based Emergency Management Information System was shown to be an extremely important and useful tool to support evaluation information in the field, making it easier to make good decisions in regions classified as risk areas due to their geotechnical characteristics
Summary
Georeferences of 95,120 buildings in the studied area were created with a Location-Based Service (LBS) application, employing GPS equipment Once this task was concluded, the table created was compared with the event record table and all related information and was coordinated by the comparison of addresses and street numbers and by the interpolation of these data. From this stage, all reports filed with the emergency management authority were analyzed and subjected to the use of the LBS.
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