Rapid assessment of flood disaster loss in Sind and Punjab province, Pakistan based on RS and GIS

Author

Ma, Yue ; Liu, Xiaomeng ; Li, Xiaojuan ; Sun, Yonghua ; Li, Xiaomeng

Author_Institution

Coll. of Resource Environ. & Tourism, Capital Normal Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

26-28 July 2011

Firstpage

646

Lastpage

649

Abstract

Based on Landsat-TM images, the flood disaster area was identified by Spectrum-photometric Method during Pakistan 2010 extra-large floods in this paper. According to the different period´s images of pre-disaster and in-disaster, the flood bodies´ range was extracted. On this basis, the disaster loss assessment including disastrous area, affected population, disastrous area of farmland (land use information), was made in the most affected provinces-Sind and Punjab. It provided an effective method for disaster assessment and decision-support on fighting floods and providing disaster relief.

Keywords

disasters; feature extraction; floods; geographic information systems; geophysical image processing; hydrological techniques; photometry; remote sensing; AD 2010; GIS; Landsat-TM image; Pakistan; Punjab Province; Sind Province; decision-support system; disaster assessment method; disastrous farmland area; flood disaster loss assessment; in-disaster image; land use information; predisaster image; remote sensing method; spectrum-photometric method; Earth; Feature extraction; Floods; Monitoring; Remote sensing; Rivers; Satellites; GIS; RS; rapid disaster assessment; spectrum-photometric method;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Technology (ICMT), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-771-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMT.2011.6003024

Filename

6003024