1) The document discusses how to effectively provide disaster information to end users. 2) It identifies different types of information needed like damage reports, images, and descriptions that can be collected and transmitted orally, via phone, fax, email or satellite images. 3) The information then needs to be interpreted or analyzed and cooked in a way that is easily understood by different end users like citizens, local governments to aid in emergency response, recovery and preparedness efforts.

1. DISASTER INFORMATION
How to arrive to the End Users
YUJIRO OGAWA
SENIOR FELLOW, ADRC
REP. BOSAI International

2. Importance of Disaster Information
• Brain Storming after Big Earthquake of 1994 in
Kobe Japan among Disaster Researchers
• Pick up any problems in the Earthquake
• More than 800 problems were picked up
• Grouping similar items and
• Categorize these problems
– Phenomena, Damage, Response,
–PPreparedness, R
d Recovery, etc.
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• We recognized One thing Next

3. Information connecting
Damage and Response
DAMAGE
INFORMATION
RESPONSE

4. Disaster Information
• Oral
– Direct
– Through Telephone, Mobile Phone
• Description
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– Report
– Through Direct, Fax, Email
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• Image
– Photo Video TV Aero Photo
Photo, Video, TV, Photo,
Satellite Image

5. Disaster Information
• Information Collection
• Information Transmission
• Information Interpretation
or Analysis

6. Image Information
• Easy to grasp whole situation
•
• Get Image from Remote Place
– Cover Wide Area
– Various Information through
g
various types of Sensor

7. Who use Disaster Information?
• End User
– Citizens
Citizens,
– Local and Central Government,
– Others ( Scientists etc )

8. What information is needed?
• For Local Government
– What happen?, human damage?,
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– What are needed?, Who dispatch? etc.
• F Citizens
For Citi
– What happened?, Where evacuate?
– Need doctor, etc.
• Variety of Information are needed.

9. When they need information?
– Before, for preparedness
– Right after, for emergency response
– After,
After for recovery or reconstruction

10. Satellite Image
• Satellite Image is not almighty !
• There are Information other than Image
• Oral
• Description
• Technology we need to squeeze
Information end user needed from Image

11. We need cooking
• How to get Information end user needed
– Proper Sensor
– Image processing
–CComparison with previous I
i ith i Image
– Add more information such as GIS data

12. Who cook Image to Information
• End user can not eat raw
materials
• End user can cook?
• NASA, JAXA kindly coo for
S ,J d y cook o
end users?
• Who cook ?

13. Who deriver Information to Users
• Information should be delivered
before it become old like Pizza
Pizza.
• We need to set up quick delivery
system.

14. Let start
• We need to start now even there are many
things to be p p
g prepared.
• Please do not forget that
Raw materials a e not easy to eat
a ate a s are ot
And
Dish should be delivered to End User