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FY2012 demonstration experiments: Disaster-related information (Overview)

Earthquakes / Weather / WarningsEpicenter and seismic intensity informationWeather warnings and advisoriesDesignated river flood forecastLandslide disaster warning informationPrefecture weather forecastAMeDASBasin rainfall index

Flood hazard mapFlooded areasLandslide hazardsSteep slope failure hazardsPast flooded areasAreas where people need to evacuateEvacuation direction

Evacuation advisory　Number of householdsNumber of target people

FacilitiesEvacuation centersHospitals and public facilities

Snow removal-relatedSnow removal plan areasSnow plow location information

　

Snow removal status when snow plow is dispatched

LifelinesWater outage information (No. of

households with no water)Electricity supply information (No. of

units with no electricity)Gas supply information (No. of

buildings with no gas)

Phone line statusLandlines (affected or not)Mobile phone lines (affected or not)

Damage informationHuman damages (No. of

dead, missing and injured)Dwelling damages (No. of

total destruction, partial destruction and some damages)Non-dwelling damages (No. of buildings that suffered damage)

Cabinet Office(Of the comprehensive disaster management system,

information that is available for secondary use )Japan Meteorological Agency Local public bodies

Implementing body: NTT Communications CorporationCoordinating bodies: Cabinet Office (Disaster Management), Japan

Meteorological Agency, Yamagata City

Shows weather, damages and hazard areas

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Shows earthquakes, damages and hazard areas

As of April 5, numbers of injured: Z

Time of passage: X o'clock Y

minutes

Snow removal plan route

○ If the disaster prevention and disaster-related information that the national and local public bodies and the like own are managed and published in a format that is easy to utilize, it becomes possible to combine between data in each area and creates new services and values related to disaster prevention and disaster mitigation. It is expected that this will contribute to disaster prevention and disaster mitigation, making it possible for rapid and appropriate governmental judgment and evacuation action.

○ For this reason, a data standard was built in the disaster prevention and disaster mitigation area and a demonstration was performed relating to the distribution and coordination of disaster prevention and disaster mitigation using the disaster prevention and disaster mitigation information (damage information, weather, earthquakes, hazard maps, etc.) held by the Cabinet Office, Japan Meteorological Agency and local public bodies.

Flood hazard area

Evacuation advisory areas

Information Circulation and Sharing Platform Common APIInformation Circulation and Sharing Platform Common API

* Existing data format exists

<Application Examples>

* Above information is by prefectural unit

* Above information is numbers that are tallied by prefectural unit

* Above information is numbers that are tallied by municipal unit

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FY2012 demonstration experiments: Disaster-related information (Applications)

Shows flood danger areas at the same time as heavy rain warning and flood warning

Mashes up static information and real-time information of multiple agencies on the map => Provides information helpful to evacuation of local residents

[3] Set up evacuation centers

[1] From advisory to warning

Shows landslide hazards at the same time as landslide disaster warning information

Evacuation centers information* Shows names and number of evacuees

Evacuation advisory target area

Shows areas of advisory (heavy rain advisory, flood advisory)* Demonstration field of Yamagata City only

[Achievements and Issues]○ Based on the common API specification, succeeded in building and implementing APIs and data standards (vocabulary, etc.) in the disaster

prevention and disaster area, and verified their effectiveness.○ The challenge in the future is to coordinate existing multiple GIS systems with the common API and refining the vocabulary by conducting

demonstrations involving multiple local public bodies as the field.

[2] Evacuation advisory