Introducing Data Integration and Analysis System : DIAS

Abstract

While large variations in nature cause enormous disasters in human society, the effects of human activities, such as global warming and the destruction of ecosystems, bring about a change in the natural system and become a constraint on human activities. Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS) started from 2006 and is developed in the project contracted by MEXT. The goals of DIAS are to collect and store earth observation data ; to analyze such data in combination with socio-economic data, and convert data into information useful for crisis management with respect to global-scale environmental disasters, and other threats ; and to make this information available within Japan and overseas.