| Session Details | |
| Section | IG - Interdisciplinary Geosciences |
| Session Title | Innovative Technologies of Sensing, Simulation and Mapping to Enhance Disaster Relief and Disaster Medical Systems |
| Main Convener | Prof. Shunichi Koshimura (Tohoku University, Japan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Erick Mas (Tohoku University, Japan) Dr. Ann Sakaguchi (University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States) |
| Session Description | This session forms the contribution of the interdisciplinary research project of earth/computer/medical sciences funded by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of MEXT/JSPS, Japan. More than 150 of preventable disaster deaths at medical institutions were reported in the areas affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Devastating damage, lack of disaster information, insufficient resources in the hospitals, disrupted lifelines and transportations, and delayed medical intervention constituted the major contributing factors of preventable deaths. On the basis of the lessons from the 2011 event, there have been many new findings, insights, and progress on disaster observation/monitoring, simulation, modeling, and damage assessment methods. This session aims to provide an opportunity to share the advances of disaster management technologies by fusion of simulation, sensing and geo-informatics to be utilized for enhancement of disaster relief and disaster medical system. We encourage the presentations of research on simulation and sensing for mapping disaster impact, spatial information sciences to identify potential victims, disaster medical information, medical support systems based on mapping and simulation technologies. |