Application of GIS Technologies to Setup a Seismic Disaster Simulation Website

Application of GIS Technologies to Setup a Seismic Disaster Simulation Website

Taiwan Earthquake Loss Estimation System(TELES) has been developed to integrate research accomplishments on seismic hazard analysis, structural damage assessments and socio-economic impacts. The software is run on personal computer and is based on the commercial GIS software MapInfo. After putting lots of efforts, it has been successfully used in proposing disaster mitigation plans and emergency response affairs by governments and cooperative institutions. However, there are some constraints to make the software popular, for example prerequisite of expensive software MapInfo and insufficient number of well-trained people to run TELES. Now, based on the internet technologies, it is possible to access, query and display spatial data over the world-wide Web. In this paper, we discuss the advantage of using Web-GIS technology to construct a Web-based Seismic Disaster Simulation System, which has close relationship with TELES.