Asian Tsunami 2004
The unprecedented nature, scale
of impact, and the vast number of people in the many affected countries
requiring immediate and long-term assistance, has highlighted the
essential importance of geospatial data. Strong national spatial data
infrastructures are crucial for early response and coordination of
emergency services, as well as longer-term reconstruction and rehabilitation
planning. National governments and agencies, international relief
organizations, local NGO's, and others involved in relief efforts
all require up-to-date information and good maps.
Many of the CGIAR Centers work
in the affected regions, and are now actively involved in providing
assistance. The International Water Management Institute (IWMI),
based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, has been working with MapAction UK and
the Government of Sri Lanka to provide maps, ground truthing, and
daily geospatially referenced information to support relief efforts
(see below for maps). The WorldFish Center in Penang, Malayasia
is focusing on impact on aquatic resources and biodiversity in the
region, and the World Agroforestry Center (SEA), CIFOR, and
WorldFish are coordinating the CGIAR response in Indonesia.
Below are some links to Tsunami
relevant geospatial information sources. If you know of more
sources, please let us know and we will add these to our list.
For more information, or specific data request, please contact: csi@cgiar.org
To go directly to the series of daily
maps produced by IWMI/MapAction for Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Tsunami Disaster
Relief Maps
Links to GeoSpatial Resources
Relevant to Tsunami Affected Areas
ESRI
Good source of baseline data, and also some imagery.
http://www.esri.com/news/pressroom/indian_ocean_disaster.html
Geodata
Tsunami GIS datasets.
http://www.geodata.gov/gos
Cornell GIS
Damage mapping using GPS. Also MapServer
Application based on IWMI/MapAction Sri Lanka Relief Maps
http://polarbear.css.cornell.edu/srilanka/
CGIAR-CSI SRTM 90m Digital Elevation
Data (DEM)
The CGIAR-CSI GeoPortal provides SRTM 90m Digital
Elevation Data for most of the globe.
http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/
GSHHS - A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical,
High-resolution Shoreline Database
Public domain high-resolution shoreline dataset.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html
National Weather Service Climate Prediction
Center
The U.S. National Weather Service Climate Prediction
Center has developed a web page for meteorological information
for Indian Ocean to aid the tsunami relief effort:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/fews/tsunami/
This page include:
- Satellite view of current weather conditions
- Weather forecast maps of Rainfall, Daily
Heat Index, Daily Minimum temperature and Daily Maximum Temperature.
- Temperature and rainfall daily maps for the
last week
- Downloadable GIS
data of Daily Rainfall Forecasts at 1 degree resolution
(~100 km) for the next seven days
ReliefWeb Maps
ReliefWeb is a project of the United
Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. This
project includes a specific map center, which contains a large collection
of maps.
This page include:
- a large collection of tsunami
maps for South-Asia and tsunami affected
countries
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/map.nsf/Emergency?OpenForm&Query=South+Asia:+Earthquake+and+Tsunami+-+Dec+2004
WorldFish Center
The worldFish center has an extensive
database about fisheries and Coral reef. Several reports have
been produced about the damage of the Tsunami on the marine ecosystems.
http://www.worldfishcenter.org/
Pacific Disaster Center
Tsunami Response Map Viewer with
rich sets of baseline data.
http://www.pdc.org/apnhintsu/html/apnhintsu-init.jsp
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Coordinating site along with MapAction (UK) and
Sri Lankan coordination unit CNO. Good GPS, ground truth, and
digital photos and maps on Tsunami disaster monitoring and management.
Excellent collection of satellite images and links to most Tsunami
related work.
http://www.iwmidsp.org/iwmi/info/tsunami.asp
Center for National Operations (CNO)
TheCenter for National Operations (CNO) hosts daily
updated situation reports and maps of the Tsunami effects in Sri
Lanka.
http://www.cnosrilanka.org/situationreport.html
Eastern University of Sri Lanka (EUSL) Information
Center
Link for Tsunami disaster information centre for
both Amparai and Batticola district. The Eastern university of Sri
Lanka is involving in this information provision and they regularly
updating the information.
http://www.eusl.info/
Thai Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
(MONROE)
This Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
(MONROE) of Thailand in collaboration with ESRI team developed
an ArcIMS software-based Web application to publish the geospatial
data of the damage area in the southern part of Thailand. The
data published includes the 2003 color orthophotos from the MOAC,
orthophotos of the damage area from RTAF, and ArcData Thairoad
as the basemap.
Additional layers included disaster operation centers, information
centers, routes from transportation centers to disaster scenes
and operation centers, and accommodations. This Web mapping application
also provides the means to input the position of bodies discovered
in the field, body collection points, and locations of essential
facilities.
http://mapserver.mnre.go.th/tsunami/
Indonesia RS/GIS Forum
As part of the direct response to the Tsunami,
a group of remote sensing and GIS experts working in a range of
government and non-government organizations in Indonesia and having
established a network called 'RS/GIS Forum', took the initiative
to do collective actions in compiling, processing and analyzing
geospatial data of Aceh and North Sumatra, Indonesia.
http://inisiatif.rsgisforum.net/index.html
Eastview Cartographic
1:50,000 topo maps free of the Western coast of
Sumatra to humanitarian organizations.
ftp://>tsunami:relief@208.4.68.5/
Landsat, ASTER, Radarsat, and many others : USGS
disaster response
Lots of free imagery from Landsat ETM+ (30-m), ASTER
(15-60 m), Radarsat (various), and other sensors. Keep visiting
this site that is constantly updated. Free images. These are coordinated
by USGS, NASA, and numerous other agencies.
Free data download ftp link:
ftp://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/disaster
Tsunami response and various links:
http://gisdata.usgs.gov/website/Tsunami
http://gisdata.usgs.gov/website/Disaster_Response
Global Change and Earth Observation: Michigan State
University
Landsat 30-m Image analysis. This site provides
good science analysis of Landsat data and products thereof.
http://www.globalchange.msu.edu/trfic/tsunami2004/
SPOT and SPOT Asia
Extensive analysis of Tsunami using SPOT and IKONOS
and numerous other data. Rapid response. Including mpeg movie animations.
Fantastic site.
http://sertit.u-strasbg.fr/documents/asie/asia_en.html
The Centre for Remote Imaging,
Sensing and Processing at the National University of Singapore provides
some excellent SPOT and IKONOS imagery that are @ high resolution
JPEG etc. Very useful for disaster assessment.
http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/tsunami/tsunami.html
http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/
Space Imaging for IKONOS:
IKONOS 1 to 4 meter media images:
http://www.stormcenter.com/media/041230b/
IKONOS 1 to 4 m media Gallery:
http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/tsunami/
IKONOS 1 to 4 meter data from SpaceImaging:
http://www.spaceimaging.com/
CHARTER
http://www.disasterscharter.org/
CRISP
http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/tsunami/tsunami.html
Darmouths Obs
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/
DLR
http://www.zki.caf.dlr.de/applications/2004/indian_ocean/indian_ocean_2004_en.html
SERTIT
http://sertit.u-strasbg.fr/documents/asie/asia_en.html
UNOSAT
http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/asp/default.asp
