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routes, design of emergency operation centres etc.
� GIS is extremely useful in combination with Global
Positioning System in search and rescue operations in
devastated areas and where it is difficult to orient.
� GIS also supports planning for the relocating
requirements and logistics for emergency supply chain
management.
� GIS can also model the event in order to warn people
and position public safety resources for immediate
deployment.
� GIS is also used to analyze vulnerable populations for
secondary health effects from a disaster, implementing
preventive treatments, and positioning medical teams
and medical supplies in locations to optimize
preventive treatments.
� In the disaster rehabilitation phase, the damage caused
can be assessed using satellite imageries.
� Customized applications can be developed on GIS to
calculate the damage and issue damage certificates to
the victims.
� GIS is also used to organize the damage information
and the post-disaster information, and in the evaluation
of sites for reconstruction, compensation etc
Table 3.1: Phases of Disaster Management
Integration of the GIS and the internet technology can significantly increase the
usage and accessibility of the spatial data, which is a necessity for disaster
management. The planning and preparedness activities like identification and
assessment of risk, awareness creation and early warning can be more effectively
organized and implemented with the use of a web-enabled GIS.
An Internet GIS based emergency management network can help in ensuring
effective public safety by providing a platform for continuous and cohesive exchange of
data, ideas, knowledge and the latest update during the event of any disaster, at local,
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