1. Response of OSGeo Japan
with other communities
to the Great East Japan Earthquake
Daisuke YOSHIDA & Yoichi KAYAMA & Taichi FURUHASHI
and members of the OSGeo Japan Chapter

3. The Great East Japan Earthquake
March 11th, 2011 14:46
M9.0 quake and Tsunami disasters

4. The Great East Japan Earthquake
March 11th, 2011 14:46
M9.0 quake and Tsunami disasters
affected the Tohoku region
and wide area of eastern Japan
About 15,700 died and 4,500 missing
Nuclear power plant crisis
Power failure in wide region
lots of confusions in Tokyo area (communications, transportations)
etc.

5. Topics to talk in this presentation

6. Topics to talk in this presentation
• EQ Responses using Satellite and Aerial Images
• Georeferencing using FOSS4G
• Providing Satellite and Aerial WMS
• Applications
• Crisis Mapping using Satellite and Aerial Images
by OpenStreetMap community

7. I will save HOW?
Japan!
FOSS4G
EQ Responses
using Satellite and Aerial Images

8. The EQ Emergency Responses
by Satellite Operating or Related Bodies
source: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JA:2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami/Imageries

9. The EQ Emergency Responses
by Satellite Operating or Related Bodies
source: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JA:2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami/Imageries
• JAXA ALOS
• DigitalGlobe
• Cnes / SpotImage
• Microsoft Bing
• MapQuest Open Aerial
• Telascience

10. Releasing Aerial Photos by
The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI)
Arial photos were taken
affected areas in 4 pref.
Mar. 12th
Mar. 13th
Mar. 19th
Mar. 27th
Apr. 1st
Apr. 5th

11. GSI Aerial Photo Rikuzen-Takada, Iwate Pref. (After EQ)

12. Georeferencing Aerial Photographs Project
@wata909
Stayed in Germany

13. Georeferencing Aerial Photographs Project
@wata909
Stayed in Germany
• Starting from OSGeoJP-discuss ML
• Over 20 volunteers joined to the project
• About 100 scenes of aerial photographs
were geo-rectified in 2 days
• About some thousands of photographs
were merged by GDAL
• Some related projects were setup
in order to facilitate the works

14. Georeferenced Photo by Volunteers
Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Pref.
Georeferencing
using QGIS Georeferencering plugin

15. Georeferenced Photo by Volunteers
Aomori and Iwate Pref.
Task management
using Google docs

16. Various Related Projects
Setting up a storage server
for exchange of large volume of data
Translating place names in English
Setting up a WMS server
for English place names

17. Providing WMS using Cloud
WMS server
Aerial WMS can help support
• comprehending damages
• developing Infra data
• restoration plan
• issuing disaster victim certificate

18. Providing WMS using Cloud
• Amazon EC2
(m2.4xlarge instance x2)
• Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
• Auto Scaling
• MapServer & TileCache
WMS server
Aerial WMS can help support
• comprehending damages
• developing Infra data
• restoration plan
• issuing disaster victim certificate

19. The Association of Japanese Geographers (AJG)
Tsunami damaged map
NIED supported the map delivery service using e-Community Map WMS
Material National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention

20. ZENRIN started to provide residential map
ZENRIN map with the NIED e-Community Map
Material National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention

21. Honda, Toyota
Usable road information (with Miyagi Pref. roads)
Material National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention

22. Evacuation center map
with the NIED e-Community Map
Material National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention

23. Aerial Photo (GSI) + Tsunami damaged map (AJG)
+ Usable road information (Honda, Toyota)
Material National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention

25. Suggesting the use of FOSS4G
to Local governments
making up damages

26. Organizing survey photos with GPS

27. QGIS OpenLayers plugin for Bing
Contributor: Luiz Motta (OSGeo Brazil)

28. EQ Responses using Satellite and Aerial Images
Aerial photos
Applications
Providing WMS
Georeferencing
@wata909 Server supports
with Cloud

29. I need
a OSM?
map!
FOSS4G
Crisis Mapping
using Satellite and Aerial Images

31. No Data, No FOSS4G

32. Let’s
start
Crisis
Mapping!!
for JapanEarthquake

33. Source for Japan Crisis Mapping
GPS
Trace on ALOS/Aerial Photos
GSI based map
Convert from ALPS Data
Trace on Bing aerial
UAV
and
Satellites
by mapconcierge

34. Sendai Area
Year of 2009

35. Sendai Area
May 7th, 2011

36. Thanks for helping us!!
by mapconcierge

37. Crisis Mapping @ Nara University / Hokkaido
Students worked on
as taking shifts for 24 hours

38. Crisis Mapping @ Nara University / Hokkaido
Students worked on
Tracing roads & buildings using Bing
Inputing evacuation centers of each municipalities
as taking shifts for 24 hours

39. Crisis Mapping @ Nara University / Hokkaido
Students worked on about 50 students joined (Mar. 24th)
and 100 joined (Apr. 9th)
Tracing roads & buildings using Bing
Inputing evacuation centers of each municipalities
as taking shifts for 24 hours

40. Crisis Mapping using Satellite and Aerial Images

41. Sendai station area May 7th, 2011

42. Natori city area May 7th, 2011

43. Rikuzen-Takada area May 7th, 2011

44. Comparison with 4 map services

45. Comparison with 4 map services

46. OSM

47. OSM Google Historical Maps

48. sinsai.info
Crowd Sourcing Reconstruction Support Platform

49. SAHANA Japan
Free and OpenSource Disaster Management System

50. OSM data @ Aero Asahi Corporation

51. ALL311/e-commu mapping system
Disaster information platform

52. Result
(after JapanEarthquake)

53. 2008 Jan
2009 Jan
by mapconcierge
2010 Jan
2011 Mar

54. 2008 Jan
only 10 people
2009 Jan
by mapconcierge
2010 Jan
2011 Mar

55. 600+ / 1200+
only 10 people
2011 Mar
2009 Jan
2010 Jan
2008 Jan
by mapconcierge

56. Many cloud companies provided
their server resources

57. Many cloud companies provided
their server resources
Amazon Web Services: sinsai.info,
Aerial & satellite images WMS server
IIJ : Web site hosting to local governments
IBM : SAHANA project
NTT Data : OpenStreetMap, sinsai.info
SAKURA Internet: GSI site

58. Comparing with the Great Hanshin EQ
(Jan. 17th, 1995)
M7.0 quakes hit in Kobe area, more than 6,000 were killed
• Many online voluntary activities, especially geographical
• Internet infra developments and cellphones improvements
• Utilizations of FOSS4G tools
• Many and variety of collaboration works thru network
• Not only domestic activities
but many supports from other countries

59. For faster response to future disasters
• Enhance community bodies
• Roles of communities in emergency situations
• Collaborations with other countries,
• mitigate language barrier
• Promote FOSS4G, the training and preparing documentations

60. Thank you very much
Fu-
Japan was Not yet
saved