Development and Analysis

Landslide is among the most dangerous natural disasters globally, frequently causing a large number of casualties and economic damages. Especially in China, there suffers the largest of deaths in the world (1). At present, landslide events have been reported increasingly from newspapers, magazines and many cyber-hazard databases. Cyber-hazard database concerned provides powerful functions, such as query, update, share, management, mass storage and so on. However, there is often a lack of specific spatiotemporal characteristics of landslide impacts or a failure to visualize complete statics of landslide records due to variable entry criteria. We developed China's landslide disaster community cyber-infrastructure with cloud computing service integration and data collection, providing statistical landslide visualization in the period 1949-2011 based on Google platform. This work indicates cloud computing is further integrated into this cyber-infrastructure by utilizing public cloud services provided by Google, which effectively accelerates the speed during landslide data processing and visualization over the internet. Keywords-landslide, database, cloud, cyber-infrastructure