E-Resilience & Risk Prevention

PreventionWeb is a web-based platform for the disaster risk community offering news, tools, maps, publications and a collaborative environment.

The Glacial Lake Inventory platform provides an overview of lakes in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas region using satellite imagery.

The Nepal Multi Level Risk Assessment For Flood system provides an interactive interface to analyze historical disaster event and loss database.

The Beidou Navigation Satellite system is used to monitor natural disasters occurring in the Peoples Republic of China.

GeoDASH is a geospatial data storing and sharing platform for compiling, updating, and sharing geospatial databases.

Open Data for Resilience Initiative is designed to reduce vulnerability to natural hazard through data collection and data analysis.

GEOSS is a set of coordinated, independent Earth observation, information and processing systems that interact and offer information to various sectors.

ThinkHazard! is a new web-based tool enabling non-specialists to consider the impacts of disasters on new development projects.

GAR is a biennial global assessment of disaster risk reduction and comprehensive review and analysis of the natural hazards that are affecting humanity.

EWX software is an interactive web-based mapping tool to visualize rainfall estimates and land surface temperatures at various time series.

Reducing risks of submarine cable cuts is essential to ensure resilient ICT connectivity.

The Earthquake Model Central Asia (EMCA) is a Global Earthquake Model (GEM) regional program coordinated by the GFZ.

The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation is a public-private partnership that drives a global collaborative effort in which science is applied to develop high-quality resources for transparent assessment of earthquake risk and to facilitate their application for risk management around the globe. The GEM Foundation works in 4 main areas:

ERDAS IMAGINE is a geospatial data authoring system, including tools for remote sensing, photogrammetry and GIS processing.

CAFRFFG entails the development and implementation of regional flash flood guidance and early warning systems.

The Risk Atlas is a compendium of risk maps for the area, population, agriculture and infrastructure in Bangladesh.

The UN-APCICT virtual academy offers training modules in ICT for Disaster Risk Management, among others.

Sahana is a free, open-source modular software platform for disaster management and humanitarian assistance.

PAGASA provides weather forecasts and risk / flood hazard maps through ICT in the Philippines.

EM-DAT is an online database of historical disaster related information maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). Its is a global database on natural and technological disasters, containing essential core data on the occurrence and effects of more than 21,000 disasters in the world, from 1900 to present.

The Flood Forecasting & Warning Centre (FFWC) provides rainfall and water level tables, forecasting and warnings with regard to flooding in Bangladesh.

The Disaster Information Management System is a tool that helps to analyze disaster related trends and their impacts in a systematic manner.

JakSAFE is a system designed to estimate the damage and loss (including infrastructure) due to flood events in Jakarta, based on information sourced from BPBD, external reports, social media and field observations.