JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objective

To understand the application of Remote sensing and GIS for natural disasters

Course Outcome

at the end of the course the student will able to learn to evaluate the spatial data

for disaster and risk management, assess and monitor the natural disasters Develop methods for early warning systems, and Prepare the long term disaster management plans in geospatial environment.

UNIT - I

Geologic Hazards: Earthquake, landslide: Meaning and types of disasters – earthquakes and Tsunamis – volcanoes – landslides – selection of variables – creation of GIS layers – space-time analysis – commissions and boards-case studies.

UNIT - II: Floods and Cyclones

cyclone related parameters and effects on land and sea – Life cycle, Classification, movement & Cyclone intensity, Flooding: topography, land use and flooding – space-time integration – GIS based parameters and layers – flood prone area analysis and management – risk assessment – commissions and boards, Soil erosion – coral / mangrove depletion – forest fire-mining – overlay analysis – GIS modeling – case studies.

UNIT - III

Drought and Desertification: Types of droughts – factors influencing droughts – variable identification – vegetation index – land use /ground water level changes – delimiting drought prone areas – processes of desertification – over utilization of water and land resources layer creation – GIS based management strategies – case studies.

UNIT - IV

Anthropogenic Disasters & Marine Disasters: Atmospheric Disasters: Ozone layer depletion – green house / global warming – acid rain – snow melt – sea level rise – related problems layer creation – coastal erosion and deposition – parameters/factors identification – over lays – analysis / management strategies – commissions and boards -case studies.

UNIT - V

Ecology related Disasters & Decision support system: Ecological degradation – nuclear disaster and biodiversity loss – parameters (mapping of forest types, protected areas and natural forests) – habitant loss – conserving bio-diversity (species and subspecies).

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Babar, Md.: Environmental Changes and Natural Disasters, New India Publishing Agency, 2007
• 2. D.B.N. Murthy – Disaster Management – Deep and Deep Publication, 2008
• 3. GIS and Emergency Management in Indian Ocean Earthquake/ Tsunami Disaster, An ESRI® White Paper, 2006
• 4. Orhan, R. Backhaus, P. Boccardo, S. Zlatanova (eds.), Geoinformation for Disaster and Risk Management Examples and Best Practices, Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies and United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, Denmark, 2010.

REFERENCES:

• 1. Korte, G. B., (2001) the GIS book: 5th edition, Onward Press, Australia. Barett, E.C. and Anton Micallef (Editors),[1991]. Remote Sensing for Hazard Monitoring and Disaster Assessment, Taylor and Francis, London.
• 2. Anji Reddy, M., (2001) Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems., 2nd edition, BS Publications, Hyderabad.
• 3. Demers, Michael N., (2000) Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems, John Willey and sons. Inc. New York. M. Tech – I Year – II Sem. (GIST)