Rapid Assessment of Secondary Disasters Induced by the Wenchuan Earthquake

Author

Fan, Jianrong ; Chen, Jim X. ; Tian, Bingwei ; Yan, Dong ; Cheng, Genwei ; Cui, Peng ; Zhang, Wen

Author_Institution

Inst. of Mountain Hazards & Environ., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Chengdu, China

Volume

12

Issue

1

fYear

2010

Firstpage

10

Lastpage

19

Abstract

The Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008 produced numerous secondary mountain disasters, including the formation of dangerous barrier lakes resulting from blocked river channels. By exploiting real-time, multiplatform remote sensing imagery data, researchers located these barrier lakes, acquired their distribution information, and assessed the threats to inform mitigation efforts and help prevent potentially disastrous consequences.

Keywords

disasters; earthquakes; geographic information systems; geophysics computing; information retrieval; lakes; remote sensing; rivers; AD 2008 05 12; Wenchuan earthquake; barrier lakes; blocked river channels; distribution information; mitigation efforts; multiplatform remote sensing imagery data; secondary mountain disaster; Animals; Earth; Earthquakes; Electric shock; Hazards; Lakes; Remote sensing; Rivers; Satellites; Water resources; Sichuan; Wenchuan county; Wenchuan earthquake; barrier lakes; farmlands; forests; multiplatform remote sensing; secondary disaster;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computing in Science & Engineering

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1521-9615

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCSE.2010.16

Filename

5372176