Application of Remote Sensing Technique for Disaster Management

China is a country where disasters happen continually and produce heavy casualties and economic losses annually. To effectively reduce the impact of every disaster, governments all over the country stipulate for a correspondingly complete strategy called disaster management. It has been a universal and effective means to deal with disasters by constructing disaster management system, which has also brought about some good results in practice. This paper presents some principles and means and practice for disaster management based on remote sensing.