How Information Technology such as Spatial Temporal GIS can Reducing Losses of Natural Disaster? -Toward International Collaboration-

This activity is listed in “Disaster Reduction Technology List on Implementation Strategies –A Contribution from Japan-“(January 2005, Kobe-Hyogo). This research has been started soon after Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake of 1995 voluntary to assist Kobe municipality leaded by Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto university, enhanced by a project “Development of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technologies and Their Integration for the Asia-Pacific Region(EqTAP)” from 1999 to 2004 and a project “Special Project for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation in Urban Areas” from 2002 to 2006 under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Japanese Government (MEXT).