2018 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 85-93
A smartphone has become one of the most popular communication tools and are spreading increasingly. Since it enabled on-site damage report attached with photographs and location information. There is no doubt that a smartphone is effective to disaster response operations from the viewpoint of information sharing. However, I have never seen any demonstration that certificates the effectiveness of a smartphone on disaster response operations. Therefore, the verification of the effect of on-site damage report using smartphones on the efficiency in disaster response operations is issued in this paper. Two cases of on-site report experiments; river inspection during flooding and damage inspection right after an earthquake occurrence, are carried out. Then, in the case of river inspection experiment, it was revealed that on-site reports can be completed within 2 minutes, and that they are also useful for multi-organizational information sharing put in practice by the provision of seamless GIS information. In the case of earthquake damage inspection experiment, on the other hand, it was revealed that both the time and the number of activities in disaster response operation can be reduced.
