Integration of satellite and rainfall data for the identification of flood events in developing countries

Ajmar, Andrea; Albanese, Adriana; Disabato, Franca; Miotto, Filippo

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“…From an operational point of view, recent major disasters (e.g. 2010 Haiti earthquake, 2010 Pakistan Flood, 2011 Japan tsunami and 2012 Italy earthquake) [Ajmar et al, 2008[Ajmar et al, , 2011Mahendra et al, 2010;Baiocchi et al, 2012;Bhattacharya et al, 2013] clearly demonstrated the potential role of geomatics in supporting emergency response and recovery, as already depicted in different papers published by EuJRS [Ajmar et al, 2008[Ajmar et al, , 2011[Ajmar et al, , 2012Borfecchia et al, 2010;Dall'Osso et al, 2010;Pignatelli et al, 2010;Rivolta et al, 2010;Baiocchi et al, 2012;Laneve et al, 2012;Perez et al, 2012]. Remote sensing based analyses are nowadays frequently adopted to support both decision makers and responders in the field during disaster management activities, as clearly pointed out by the United Nations in the 2011 humanitarian appeal: " […] Remote sensing in the hours and days after the Haiti earthquake yielded estimates of numbers of severely affected people that stood the test of time and allowed an unusually rapid flash appeal.…”

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New perspectives in emergency mapping

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2013

European Journal of Remote Sensing

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In recent years, growing attention is paid to remote sensing when used for disaster management applications. This is essentially due to the large variety of remotely acquired imagery available for the extraction of geometric and thematic features in order to map, delineate and grade natural disasters impacts. Another key point is the quick availability of those images in rapid mapping procedures in order to deliver the data (reference and thematic) to concerned users. This paper briefly describes the current state-of-the-art of remote sensing techniques usage in emergency mapping, paying particular attention, in the second part, to the GIO-EMS new operational service delivered by the European Commission.Keywords: Disaster management, emergency mapping, remote sensing, spatial data infrastructure (SDI), data model, image processing. General remarksStarting with this editorial, the Italian Society of Remote Sensing (AIT) aims to favour an International debate related to the main geomatics (with particular attention to remote sensing) applications. The short papers that will be published in the next European Journal of Remote Sensing (EuJRS) issues are conceived to deliver basic and operational information to all EuJRS readers on different topics, highlighting potentialities (also in terms of possible financing coming from National and International opportunities) of these new application fields. This first paper is related to geomatics and emergency management; applications on health, weather, atmosphere, climate change, water resources, energy, geology, cryosphere, forest, natural ecosystems, biodiversity, land cover, coastal, ocean and transportation, infomobility and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), will follow in the next months.

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2013

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Integration of satellite and rainfall data for the identification of flood events in developing countries

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