期刊名称：ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2194-9042
电子版ISSN：2194-9050
出版年度：2010
卷号：XXXVIII Part 6
页码：11-13
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：The Asia-Pacific region is one of the worst disaster affected region in the world and in terms of disaster-related deaths, six of the top ten countries are from Asia. Longer-term statistics on disaster occurrence and casualties shows continuous increase over the last three decades in the region and it is expected to get worse due to climate change which has a negative impact on hydro- meteorological disasters. There is an urgent need for effective disaster management in the region and satellite remote sensing offers an opportunity to address this issue to a great extent. With the advances in space science and technology, more and more good quality satellite data are getting available both in terms of resolution and variety (optical and microwave), which can be used effectively for disaster management. However, not enough capacity exists in many of the developing countries of the Asian-Pacific region to make use of satellite data effectively in disaster management. This is particularly true for the satellite data available through the Sentinel Asia Project initiated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Sentinel Asia is consortium of a few space agencies from the region to provide satellite data to a country immediately after a disaster event. As a part of the capacity building effort, JAXA has initiated a program called Mini-Project in 2005 through the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok. This capacity building project targets most prevalent disasters in the south and south-east Asian countries by selecting relevant agencies, providing need-based technical support, imparting training for handling satellite data, conducting field verifications and guiding them to achieve tangible results. Several projects have been taken up in areas like flood, landslide, drought, earthquake, forest fire, tsunami, volcano monitoring etc. in 14 countries of the region involving national mapping agencies as well as disaster related or development agencies. The results of the Mini-Projects are further disseminated for greater benefits of the society in respective countries
关键词：Capacity Building; Remote Sensing and GIS; Disaster
