FORMULATION OF GEO-SPATIAL SOLUTION FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Mumbai city has become extremely vulnerable due to a large population living in huts especially in low-lying areas. Whenever city receives heavy rains; roads get waterlogged and the traffic is disrupted. Since the past 3 years, the monsoons in Mumbai have been creating havoc: flooded roads and railway tracks, clogged drainage system, and the huge traffic jams. Mumbai witnessed one of its biggest destruction on 26th July 2005. The recent Flood disasters showed that available Disaster Management Systems do not fully fulfil their requirements and potentials. Disaster Management poses significant challenges for data collection, data management, discovery, translation, integration, visualization and communication. It is often stated that the major problem in Disaster Management is not lack of technology or the existence of relevant information, but lack of 'information' about the information. Disaster Management depends on large volumes of accurate, relevant, on-time geo-information that various organizations systematically create and maintain. Spatial Information and Information Communication Technologies are the important elements in Disaster Management. Researchers have presented first prototype that is being developed for a pilot area at Mumbai, D Ward. The paper researches the demand for Mobile and Web Based Integrity in Disaster Management and suggests a systems approach to reduction of errors in Disaster Systems. It is with this purpose, the paper addresses the role of SDI (Spatial Data Infrastructure) as a framework for facilitating Disaster Management. The GIS enabled Mobile and Web based Geo – Spatial Software Solution for Disaster Management is designed and developed.