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SDI for Disaster Management to support sustainable development
Ali Mansourian, Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej
Faculty of Geodesy and Geomatics Eng.,
K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Email: alimansourian@yahoo.com,
valadanzouj@kntu.ac.ir
Abbas Rajabifard, Ian Williamson
Center for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration, v
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Email: abbas.r@unimelb.edu.au,
ianpw@unimelb.edu.au
Abstract
Sustainable development which aims increasing the quality of life is one of the main goals of many countries around the world. Therefore, many national planning and development processes in different countries are based on such achievement. However, disasters would present a major threat to sustainable development or a sign of its failure. Having said that, appropriate disaster management, can contribute to reduction of impacts of disasters and consequently facilitating the achievement of sustainable development. In this respect, considering the crucial nature of spatial data for disaster management, and considering current problems on availability, accessibility and usage of spatial data for disaster management, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) as an infrastructure in spatial data production, management, sharing and access can be an appropriate framework for facilitating disaster management.
This paper aims to discuss the role of SDI in disaster management. It describes an SDI conceptual model and a prototype web-based system for better sharing and usage of spatial data to facilitating disaster management which contributes to achieving sustainable development.
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