Development of Shanghai urban disaster information system based on open source WebGIS

Author

Chen, Ke ; Rui, Jianxun ; Wen, Jiahong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Geogr., East China Normal Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2011

fDate

24-26 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Design a system development program based on open source WebGIS which is high-efficiency and low-cost. Develop Shanghai urban disaster information system as an example. The core of system which uses PostgreSQL as database is MapServer. The functions of system includes Web information publish, store and manage spatial data, provide map server, appease subsequent access by Multi-user, thematic mapping, query and statistics, spatial analysis and modeling, decision support, mapping output and so on.

Keywords

Internet; SQL; disasters; geographic information systems; public domain software; MapServer; PostgreSQL; Shanghai urban disaster information system; Web information publish; decision support; mapping output; open source WebGIS; query and statistics; spatial analysis; spatial data; spatial modeling; system development program; thematic mapping; Cities and towns; Information systems; Open source software; Predictive models; Servers; Spatial databases; MapServer; Open source WebGIS; PostgreSQL; Shanghai; Urban disaster information system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoinformatics, 2011 19th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

2161-024X

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-849-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GeoInformatics.2011.5980748

Filename

5980748