Development of the Seismic Damage Mapping System with GPS Cellular Phone

Abstract

Recently, many local governments develop the computer system for disaster prevention in the IT(Information Technology)revolution.Their main purpose is to collect real seismic damage from the disaster area quickly (within 30 min). But almost their systems cannot work. Then this study proposes the system of collecting real seismic damage using GPS (Global Positioning System)cellular phone. Many sufferers report information of real damage (collapsed house, fire, traffic obstacle…)with GPS cellular phone from the disaster area, and the center receive information and output urban seismic damage maps quickly. In this study, it's made out a prototype of the system and explained a way of using output maps on GIS(Geographic Information System).