International seminars

1. The Development of Indicator Systems for Local Sustainable Development
  Chih-Hong Sun Yi-Huang Tao Cheng-Dar Yue Ming-Chih Lin Min-Fang Lien
  Abstract
  The concept of "sustainable development" has been well accepted since the 1992 Global Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Not only the top-down guidance and cooperation from the central government, but also the local implementation is needed for the promotion of sustainable development. Indicators reflect the status of the real world. Indicators for sustainable development act as leverage points to the government's policy. Such kind of system is just like a diagnosis system. It gives the information to the decision maker for the sake of the priority of resource allocation. This research first analyzes the principles on promotion of sustainable development from some case studies as well as indicator systems, then it proposes the plan for local sustainable development of Taiwan. Finally it constructs the indicator system for local sustainable development. This system shows great impact on the local governments decision makers through inside training courses. Further research is needed to evaluate how effective this system is as the local governments begin to put action i
   
2. Development of the Earthquake Emergency Response and Recovery Decision Support System
  Sun, C. L. Wang, S. H. W. Shiao, C. F. Hsieh, T.Y. Chou, T.H. C.hu, B.W. Tsai,
L. Z. Guo, L. Z., W. S. Lu, Chuo, J. L. Lee
  Abstract
  Chi-Chi earthquake on September 21 causes great disaster in central Taiwan. While government emergency response system made great effort to rescue injured people, non-government organizations and academic experts on disaster relief also provide very quick response to help disaster management. Over 28 foreign countries send their emergency rescue teams to Taiwan to help on the search of survivors. The only blemish in an otherwise perfect thing is the emergency response center lacking GIS tools on the first three days of critical periods, although two GIS teams from GIS center of Fung-Chia University were send to the emergency response center to help managing disaster information so the control center can run much effectively. We should take this lessons seriously to build earthquake emergency response decision support system as soon as possible to prepare for the next disaster earthquake. This paper describes our initial design of the earthquake emergency response decision support system using GIS, GPS, and remote sensing techniques. This paper also describes how to use web GIS to build a centralized earthquake recovery decision support system.

Keywords: Earthquake Hazard Response, Decision Support System,
Geographic Information System, World Wide Web

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3. Design of a Web-base Digital Image Archieve System for 921 Earthquake
  Hahn-Ming Lee,  Chih-Ming Chen Hsin, Hsin-Tsung Peng, Jan-Yan Guo, Po-Hsun Yeh, Jer-Yan Huang
  Abstract
 

    This study aims at designing and constructing a web-based digital image archive system for 921 earthquake project which can search needed image files by full text search and manage image information by a friendly users' management interface from internet. The developed system simultaneously provides image browsing, image share and image management mechanisms through legal authorized accounts. Restated, this study develops a digital image archive system for 921earthquake project to provide a shared information platform which can store and manage image files and metadata obtained from  921earthquake areas. These digital image files archived by our system currently are over five hundreds Gega bytes and new digital image may be appended to our system in the future.  Furthermore, data exchange and data security are also two important issues in this system.  Therefore, our considerations in this study focus on developing an efficient and fast data retrieval method, scalable databases approach, standard data exchange method and rigorous data protection mechanism for digital image archive.

   Based on Microsoft.Net platform, this study integrates metadata, relational database, information retrieval and internet technologies to construct a digital image archive system.  Our system can easily manage a large amount of image information and efficiently extract users needed information from Internet. At present, this system has passed severe testing and worked well on Internet.  In order to construct an earthquake digital library in the future, our system can also consider integrating with other earthquake databases.

 

Keywords:921 earthquake, digital image archive, database management system, metadata, information retrieval