ERRAGMap: Visualization tool

Earthquakes are considered one of the major disastrous situations for any nation. The horrible earthquake may claim hundreds of lives, thousands of injuries and demolishing thousands of houses. When an earthquake hits a nation then number of management bodies (such as: government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs)) are actively involved in reinstating the damages. Generally, these organizations deal with stats of build and still-to-be build infrastructure (roads, buildings, and houses etc). Currently, this information is presented to the organizations as a raw text in huge amount. Therefore, it becomes difficult to highlight key areas where an immediate start of rehabilitation process is inevitable. In the past, some systems have been developed to present such information in structured form by using some visualization techniques. However, these tools are inadequate because of the following reasons: 1) Most of these tools are about geotechnical conditions of effected area and can provide help to describe seismic hazards 2) Some systems show trends of earthquakes in specific region. 3). None of the systems describe the rehabilitation process in an easily conceivable way. Therefore, this becomes an interesting and challenging research problem to build such a system that can overcome the above mentioned limitations of current techniques and systems. In this research, we present such a system called ERRAGMAP. This geo spatial tool discovers and presents deep insight into the data related to rehabilitation of the destroyed houses in the earthquake affected areas. Our contributions in this research are as follows: 1) critical analysis of existing tools of visualization for earthquake rehabilitation systems 2) propose and develop a framework for converting raw data into actionable knowledge, 3) propose, develop and evaluate an innovative visualization technique.