Disaster preparedness in the hills: Natural hazard modeling using GIS and remote sensing

Proceedings of the 2005 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 915-925

  Oberoi, Sharad Vimal ^a   Thakur, Narinder Kumar ^b  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Ministry of Defence   (India)

Author keywords

GIS; Natural Hazard Modeling; Remote Sensing

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DISASTERS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTEGRATION; REMOTE SENSING;

DATA INTEGRATION; GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; MULTI-LAYERED INFORMATION; NATURAL HAZARD MODELING;

HAZARDS;

EID: 27144506050     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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