Natural Hazards and Earth System Science www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net 1561-8633 1684-9981 6 5 2006 10.5194/nhess-6-711-2006 http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/6/711/2006/ http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/6/711/2006/nhess-6-711-2006.html http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/6/711/2006/nhess-6-711-2006.pdf 711 720 2006-08-04 CEDIM Risk Explorer – a map server solution in the project "Risk Map Germany" M. Müller matthias.mueller@gfz-potsdam.de S. Vorogushyn P. Maier A. H. Thieken T. Petrow A. Kron B. Büchele J. Wächter GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Data Center & Section Engineering Hydrology, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany Department for Water and River Basin Management, Chair of Water Resources, Hydraulic and Rural Engineering, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM), Karlsruhe, Germany The project "Risk Map Germany" at the Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM) aims at visualizing hazards, vulnerabilities and risks associated with natural and man made hazards. CEDIM as an interdisciplinary project unified various expertise like earthquake, storm and flood disaster research. Our aim was to visualize the manifold data exploration in thematic maps. The implemented Web-GIS solution "CEDIM Risk Explorer" represents the map visualizations of the different risk research. 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