Nepal Earthquake 2015: Use of Public Information in Initial Assessment and Mapping

Presentation ByPrabhat Kumar, National GIS Officer, UNDP ESPEwan Oglethorpe, Data Scientist, KLL

9 August 2015

Outline of the presentation

• Initial Assessments

• Areas of Mapping Applications

• Mapping Examples

• Data Availability and Access

• Integrated Geodatabasse

Initial Assessment

• Provide situational awareness to provide urgent needs and key humanitarian priorities based on publicly available information and secondary datasets

• Generate information products (Maps, District Profiles, Sectoral Analysis. Weekly and Monthly Situational Updates)

Initial Assessment Sources

2011 Census

Metrics Collected

People in need by sector

Rank of needs within a VDC

Severity of need

Access – safety, logistical

Workflow

. . .

Sanity Check

Extract Metrics

Input (Existing Metrics)

Workflow

. . .

Sanity Check

Extract Metrics

Input

Automate?

Composition of Sources

226219QuakemapOther

Sources

445 sources from 286 VDCs

Humanitarian Information Review and Analysis

Needs Assessment Mapping

(UNDAC/OSOCC)

Areas of Mapping Applications

Post Disaster Needs Assessment

(Government/NPC)

Causalities and Damage(Government/MoHA)

Early Recovery and Reconstruction

(Government/MOFALD)

Needs Assessment

Multi-Sector Needs Assessment

Needs Assessment Coverage

Search And Rescue Operations

Population Map of Sindhupalchowk District

Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA)

Categorization of Affected Districts

Destroyed Private Houses by DistrictsPer Capita Disaster Effects (NPR/Person)

Spatial Distribution of EQ and Aftershocks

Causalities and Damage Mapping

Earthquake CausalitiesDisplaced Population

Destroyed Community Infrastructure Floods and Landslides Vulnerability

Shows before and after earthquake images of Chaku, Sindhupalchowk, (Source: Landsat 8 OLI / WorldView)

Shows Kathmandu damage assessment after the earthquake (Source: KOMPSAT-3 – AEISS)

Shows Fault Rupture, Surface Movements (Source: NASA)

Multiple Initiatives:

Preliminary Landslide inventory mapping after the EQ (Source: British Geological Survey)

Data Availability and Access

International Actors

| UNOSAT

|Sentinel Asia

National Actors

Data Acquisition, Availability and Harmonization Issues

Integrated Geodatabase

(Topographic Data)

(Census Data)(Satellite Imagery)

(Integrated Disaster

Geodatabase )

(Open Data (OSM))

Thank You for Your Attention!