Rainfall Information System Based on Weather Radar for Debris Flow Disaster Mitigation

  • Authors

    • Ratih Indri Hapsari
    • Gerard Aponno
    • Rosa Andrie Asmara
    • Satoru Oishi
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.36.28994
  • Rainfall, Debris flow, Weather radar, Disaster, WebGIS.

  • Abstract

    Rainfall-triggered debris flow has caused multiple impacts to the environment. It. is regarded as the most severe secondary hazards of volcanic eruption. However, limited access to the active volcano slope restricts the ground rain measurement as well as the direct delivery of risk information. In this study, an integrated information system is proposed for volcanic-related disaster mitigation under the framework of X-Plore/X-band Polarimetric Radar for Prevention of Water Disaster. In the first part, the acquisition and processing of high-resolution X-band dual polarimetric weather/X-MP radar data in real-time scheme for demonstrating the disaster-prone region are described. The second part presents the design of rainfall resource database and extensive maps coverage of predicted hazard information in GIS web-based platform accessible both using internet and offline. The proposed platform would be useful for communicating the disaster risk prediction based on weather radar in operational setting.

     


     

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    Indri Hapsari, R., Aponno, G., Andrie Asmara, R., & Oishi, S. (2018). Rainfall Information System Based on Weather Radar for Debris Flow Disaster Mitigation. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.36), 1395-1401. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.36.28994

    Received date: 2019-04-25

    Accepted date: 2019-04-25