By collecting and visualizing hazards in one platform, GeoMapperPH seeks to empower authorities to make 'well-informed decisions and actions for disaster management.'
To help authorities make data-driven decisions in disaster response, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology launched on Thursday, July 16, a new application that showed the possible impact of disasters to communities.
This would allow authorities to see a summary report of the impact of these disasters, including the number of casualties, affected individuals, families in evacuation centers, damaged buildings, cost of assistance, and total cost of damage to agriculture and infrastructure among others in easily understandable charts.
“After a disaster, we can also use the situation data mapper for awareness [of] affected population, affected institutions...These are tools and these are platforms, and you can use this. We can build on each other's strength,” added Mabelline Cahulogan, the project leader of GeoRiskPH.
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