EO Support to Multi-Hazard Vulnerability Assessment in Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam) and Yogyakarta (Indonesia)
| The World Bank has promoted a number of analytic risk management tools to help local policymakers to assess their cities’ susceptibility to natural hazards. One of them is Multi-Hazard City Risk Index (MHCRI) – city-focused metric system aimed to assess their susceptibility to risks, over time and relative to other cities. MHCRI was developed to stimulate the process of urban risk assessments and raise awareness concerning the importance of developing adequate disaster risk management plans. There are many factors contributing to risks cities face and the existing risks are often amplified by poor urban risk management practices. Therefore the development of the reliable measures to better quantify the exposure of urban areas taking into account a whole range natural and man-made risks is paramount. In this context, eoworld project contributed to this multi-hazard risk identification with two elements: • a scalable methodology for using satellite data to advance hazards identification and characterization with a special focus on hydro-geological hazards (such as floods, urban subsidence, mudflows and landslides) • multi-hazard vulnerability analysis based on the combination of hazard information, information about location and distribution of assets and socioeconomic data. |
Technical Officer: Philippe Bally |
Starting Date: 2011-01-01 |
Suppliers: ALTAMIRA INFORMATION SL as supplier - prime EUROSENSE as supplier - sub Center for Environmental Engineering as supplier - sub |
Users: World Bank as user - buyer Center for Environmental Engineering as user - partner/collaborator |
Services: historical mapping of terrain deformations (Disaster Risk Management) urban area location and type mapping (Urban) urban area location and type mapping (Urban) historical mapping of terrain deformations (Disaster Risk Management) flood risk analysis (Disaster Risk Management) flood risk analysis (Disaster Risk Management) |
