scholarly journals Preparing for creative responses to “beyond assumed level” disasters: lessons from the ICT management in the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake crisis

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Mihoko Sakurai ◽  
Jiro Kokuryo
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Creative Solutions

A survey of the municipal government ICT divisions during and after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami crisis reveals the need for creative responses for “beyond assumed level” disasters. Complexity and diversity of the damage were simply too great for any plans to assume. Resident needs toward the municipal governments were also diverse and changed quickly as the time went by. The research also indicates that there would be ways to strengthen the capabilities to execute such spontaneous responses. Creative solutions executed during the 3.11 crisis were supported by the existence of open source software available on the net and skilled engineers that were capable of exploiting them. Frugal information system will be useful to improve preparedness for creative responses.

scholarly journals Preparing for creative responses to “beyond assumed level” disasters: Lessons from the ICT management in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake crisis

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihoko Sakurai ◽  
Jiro Kokuryo
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
The Future

A survey of municipal government ICT divisions during and after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami crisis reveals the need for creative responses to “beyond assumed level” disasters. Complexity and diversity of the damage were simply too great for any plans to assume. Resident needs toward municipal governments affected were also diverse and changed quickly as time went by. Our research also indicates that there would be ways to strengthen the capacity for effective spontaneous responses. Creative solutions executed during the 3/11 crisis were enabled by the existence of open source software available on the Net and by skilled engineers capable of exploiting them. Frugal information systems will be useful to improve preparedness for creative responses in the future.

Building Repository Banking and Finance (ReBaF)

2013 ◽  
pp. 234-241
Author(s):  
Munawaroh
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Financial Data ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Banking And Finance ◽  
Sql Database ◽  
Digital Library Services

Repository Banking and Finance (ReBaf) is one of the digital library services developed by STIE Perbanas Surabaya in an effort to extend the collection of banking and financial data organized by the Library of STIE Perbanas Surabaya. The ReBaf SISFO (information system) applies open-source software basis with PHP SQL programming language and Postgre SQL database.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of QGIS plugins for Web Maps creation

La Granja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-26
Author(s):  
Lia Duarte ◽  
Catarina Queirós ◽  
Ana Cláudia Teodoro
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Geospatial Data ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Gis Software

QGIS is a free and open-source software that allows viewing, editing, and analyzing georeferenced data. It is a Geographic Information System (GIS) software composed by tools that allow to manipulate geographic information and consequently to create maps which help to get a better understanding and organization of geospatial data. Unfortunately, maps created directly in the GIS desktop software are not automatically transferred to a website. This research aimed to compare publishing capabilities in different QGIS plugins to create Web Maps. This study analyzes four QGIS plugins (QGIS2Web, QGIS Cloud, GIS Cloud Publisher and Mappia Publisher), performing a comparison between them, considering their advantages and disadvantages, the free and subscription plans, the tools offered by each plugin and other generic aspects. The four plugins were tested in a specific case study to automatically obtain different Web Maps. This study could help users to choose the most adequate tools to publish Web Maps under QGIS software.

scholarly journals Free and Open-Source Software for Geographic Information System on Coastal Management: A Study Case of Sea-Level Rise in Southern Brazil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Terres de Lima ◽  
Sandra Fernández-Fernández ◽  
Carlos V. C. Weiss ◽  
Volney Bitencourt ◽  
Cristina Bernardes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Coastal Management ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
End Point Rate

This work assesses sea-level rise using three different models created on Free and Open-Source Software for Geographic Information System (FOSS4GIS). Based on regional projections of Special Report on Climate Change and Oceans and Cryosphere (SROCC) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the models were applied to a case of study on Rio Grande do Sul coast – Brazil under different sea-level rise scenarios by the end of this century. The End Point Rate for QGIS (EPR4Q), calculates a shoreline projection using End Point Rate method. The Uncertainty Bathtub Model (uBTM), analyses the sea-level rise impact by the uncertainty of sea-level projec-tions and vertical error of the Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM/DTM). The Bruun Rule for Google Earth Engine Model (BRGM) predicts the shoreline position with sea-level rise, using topographic and bathymetric data from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Coastal Modelling System (SMC – Brazil), respectively. The results indicated a maximum shoreline retreat for 2100 of -502 m and -1727 m using EPR4Q and BRGM, correspondingly. The uBTM using the land-use of Mapbiomas showed a maximum of 44.57 km2 of urban area impacted by the sea-level flood. This research highlights the possibility of performing coastal management analysis in GIS environ-ment using non-commercial software.

scholarly journals Development of web enabled water resource information system using open source software for Patiala and SAS Nagar districts of Punjab, India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Banjeet Singh ◽  
Samanpreet Kaur ◽  
Pradeep Kumar Litoria ◽  
Susanta Das
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Information System ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Resource Information ◽  
Supply Planning

Abstract Over the globe efforts are being made to collect data and develop an adequate water resource information system for optimising its use. India is the largest consumer of water with an estimated usage of around 300 cubic kilometers per year. Punjab, a north-western state of India, is an example of severe crises aquifer depletion due to unconstrained consumption of groundwater leads to degrade the quantity as well as quality of it. Thus it is of great importance to compile up to date information about the water requirement for its appropriate and sustainable use. Remote sensing and Geographic Information system (GIS) are the technologies that can provide efficient & effective information system to tackle the water quality & water supply planning parameters. Thus, under the present study, a web enabled water resource information system has been developed in GIS environment for the SAS (Sahibzada Ajit Singh) Nagar and Patiala districts of Punjab by using the open source software – MS4W and pmapper. This system provides digital information of natural i.e. drainage & man made features like roads, canals, tube well with its location etc., and also provide the information related to water level, water quality of wells, and well depth for the study area. Such an information system can be very helpful for the administrators and can serve as a decision support system for the planners and policy makers so that the areas where the problem related to water quality can be identified and focused upon. The system can provide an effective and meaningful direction for the planning and development of both districts.

scholarly journals Development and Comparison of Open Source based Web GIS Frameworks on WAMP and Apache Tomcat Web Servers

2014 ◽  
Vol XL-4 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Agrawal ◽  
R. D. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Gis Application ◽  
Gis Applications ◽  
Apache Tomcat

Geographic Information System (GIS) is a tool used for capture, storage, manipulation, query and presentation of spatial data that have applicability in diverse fields. Web GIS has put GIS on Web, that made it available to common public which was earlier used by few elite users. In the present paper, development of Web GIS frameworks has been explained that provide the requisite knowledge for creating Web based GIS applications. Open Source Software (OSS) have been used to develop two Web GIS frameworks. In first Web GIS framework, WAMP server, ALOV, Quantum GIS and MySQL have been used while in second Web GIS framework, Apache Tomcat server, GeoServer, Quantum GIS, PostgreSQL and PostGIS have been used. These two Web GIS frameworks have been critically compared to bring out the suitability of each for a particular application as well as their performance. This will assist users in selecting the most suitable one for a particular Web GIS application.

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