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"Last-Mile" preparation for a potential disaster – Interdisciplinary approach towards tsunami early warning and an evacuation information system for the coastal city of Padang, Indonesia
1German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
2Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg, Geographical Institute, Earth Observation, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
3Leibniz University Hannover, Franzius-Institut für Wasserbau und Küsteningenieurwesen, 30167 Hannover, Germany
4United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), 53113 Bonn, Germany
5Technical University Berlin, Verkehrssystemplanung und Verkehrstelematik, Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr, Fakultät V – Verkehr- und Maschinensysteme, 10587 Berlin, Germany
6Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH (RSS), 81667 München, Germany
7Institut für Robotik und Mechatronik, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin-Adlershof, Germany
8TraffGo HT GmbH, Falkstr. 73–77, 47058 Duisburg, Germany
9Insitute of Computer Science II, University of Bonn, 53117 Bonn, Germany
Abstract. Extreme natural events, like e.g. tsunamis or earthquakes, regularly lead to catastrophes with dramatic consequences. In recent years natural disasters caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, destruction of infrastructure, disruption of economic activity and loss of billions of dollars worth of property and thus revealed considerable deficits hindering their effective management: Needs for stakeholders, decision-makers as well as for persons concerned include systematic risk identification and evaluation, a way to assess countermeasures, awareness raising and decision support systems to be employed before, during and after crisis situations. The overall goal of this study focuses on interdisciplinary integration of various scientific disciplines to contribute to a tsunami early warning information system. In comparison to most studies our focus is on high-end geometric and thematic analysis to meet the requirements of small-scale, heterogeneous and complex coastal urban systems. Data, methods and results from engineering, remote sensing and social sciences are interlinked and provide comprehensive information for disaster risk assessment, management and reduction. In detail, we combine inundation modeling, urban morphology analysis, population assessment, socio-economic analysis of the population and evacuation modeling. The interdisciplinary results eventually lead to recommendations for mitigation strategies in the fields of spatial planning or coping capacity.
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Citation: Taubenböck, H., Goseberg, N., Setiadi, N., Lämmel, G., Moder, F., Oczipka, M., Klüpfel, H., Wahl, R., Schlurmann, T., Strunz, G., Birkmann, J., Nagel, K., Siegert, F., Lehmann, F., Dech, S., Gress, A., and Klein, R.: "Last-Mile" preparation for a potential disaster – Interdisciplinary approach towards tsunami early warning and an evacuation information system for the coastal city of Padang, Indonesia, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 9, 1509-1528, doi:10.5194/nhess-9-1509-2009, 2009. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
