Tsunami Disaster Mapping Portal

January 10, 2005

A colleague let me know about the Tsunami Disaster Mapping Portal, which was written up in GeoCommunity Spatial News.

This interactive, Internet-based Website contains a rapidly increasing wealth of data about all Indian Basin Tsunami affected countries and regions - collected both before and after the ongoing disaster.

The goal of this Website is to help facilitate, through the use of interactive Web-mapping technology, all aspects of disaster mitigation, including:

- emergency response,
- food and disaster relief supplies distribution,
- rescue operations,
- rehabilitation planning,
- damage assessment,
- downstream disaster mitigation planning,
- etc., etc.

Aid workers at ground zero and around the globe can have free access to this spatial data and the resulting mapping functionality via the Internet. In addition, these same workers can contribute their specialized data for use by other agencies.

I’m glad to read that Canadians played a role in developing this tool. I hope it proves useful.

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