The Arima Laboratory, Graduate School of Applied Information Science, University of Hyogo, received the grand prize in the examination of disaster prevention applications (disaster prevention apps) that were solicited by the Geographical Survey Institute of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
The geospatial information held by the government is open data so that it can be used for evacuation in the event of a disaster.The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Water and Disaster Management Bureau, etc. are soliciting disaster prevention apps with the aim of making effective use of the data. In fiscal 2016, in response to the frequent occurrence of water disasters such as the heavy rains in the Kanto and Tohoku regions in September 2015, the "Flood Simulation Search System by Point (Flood Navi)" provided by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is effectively used. We were soliciting disaster prevention apps that we used.
At the review committee held on November 11th by academic experts, we examined the usefulness of disaster prevention apps for flood control and disaster prevention learning from among the applied disaster prevention apps.The "Hazard Checker" developed by Arima Laboratory was selected for the grand prize because it clearly informs the danger of a place specified in multiple languages.
The "hazard checker" analyzes the weather disaster prevention information at the current location or the specified location and the presence or absence of disaster hazards, and immediately notifies the "danger confirmation result" in Japanese, English, and Chinese.The simulation result screen with the flood navigation function has been devised to show water level animations and hydrographs that compare with the height of houses and people.
The award for excellence is a regional disaster prevention map creation support system (GIS large-scale spatial data public-private sharing promotion council support group), GPS offline map app for mountain climbing and disaster prevention: SkyWalking (DEEP KICK.com Honda Iku), disaster prevention education guide app. -Coco only timeline- (Tamano General Consultant Co., Ltd.), goo disaster prevention app XNUMX (NTT Resonant Co., Ltd.) won the award.
"Hazard Checker" will be announced on the Geographical Survey Institute website and displayed on a panel, along with the four apps that won the Excellence Award.
