TCAR - Typhoon Committee

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ESCAP/WMO
Typhoon Committee Annual Review 2009
c. Disaster Prevention
and Preparedness
Achievements/Results
Enhanced WEB GIS
Based Typhoon
Committee Disaster
Information System
The National Institute
for Disaster Prevention
(NIDP) officially launched
the WEB GIS Based
Typhoon Committee
Disaster Management
System (WGTCDIS),
which enables sharing
of Typhoon Committee
Members’ disaster
information including
typhoon damage,
disaster management
system, and early
warning system. The system provides a variety of
additional services including tracking of similar
typhoons, retrieval of damage information on
multiple disasters, meteorological information,
and regional weather risk analysis.
Fig. 29. Main features of WEB GIS based TCDIS
NIDP-led efforts to promote the WEB GIS
based TCDIS (WGTCDIS) to TC Members will
continue in 2010. TC Members such as the
Philippines, Lao PDR and Thailand are to provide
GIS, meteorological and disaster information
for WGTCDIS by end of 2009 and NIDP will
provide expert missions to set up WGTCDIS
for TC Members and improve WGTCDIS usage.
NEMA-led efforts will also continue in 2010 to
enhance WGTCDIS and establish a methodology
to assess socio-economic impacts of disasters.
TC Members such as the Philippines, Lao PDR,
Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macao, Cambodia, the USA,
Viet Nam, the Republic of Korea, and Thailand
will submit disaster information on one to two
cases of typhoon damage in their countries.
NIDP will compile this information into a report
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for presentation at the 5th WGDPP meeting
in Seoul, Korea. 2010 will furthermore see the
continued review of the WGTCDIS progress and
activities to enhance TC’s effectiveness and
efficiency in meeting its mandate as stated in the
Statute of the Typhoon Committee. WGDPP will
participate in a focused, integrated WGM, WGH,
WGDPP, TRCG, and AWG Workshop with specific
deliverables defined, in addition to evaluating the
progress of the WGTCDIS project and future
WGDPP activities.
To ensure continued relevance of the WGTCDIS
project, it is necessary to validate Viet Nam’s
WGTCDIS and to secure typhoon and damagerelated
data from new Members. Viet Nam will
identify joint activities and inform Members for
validation of its WGTCDIS. Thailand, Lao PDR