Use of GIS and Remote Sensing as Risk Reduction Techniques in Disasters with Special Reference of India

Abstract

Management in Disaster may be a dynamic method. It includes the classical management functions of turning out with, organizing staffing, leading and dominant. A hazard involves several organizations, that should work along to prevent mitigate, inure, answer, and recover from the results of disaster. Disaster management would so embrace immediate response, recovery, prevention, mitigation, state, the cycle goes on. Asian country is that the country wherever varied varieties of natural disasters overrun once a year, eg. Floods, drought, earthquakes, cyclones and landslides etc. In Asian country uncountable folks are affected every year and additionally the economic losses caused by varied disasters quantity to a big share of the Gross National Product. Natural Disasters are large economic burdens particularly on economically developing countries as Asian country. Every year, large quantities of resources are mobilized for rescue, relief and rehabilitation works following natural disaster occurrences. In India, a far better analysis of what transforms an event into somebody's and economic disaster reveals that the essential issues of development that the country faces are the precise same issues that contribute to its vulnerability to the harmful effects of natural hazards. This text aims to focus on the importance of GIS and remote sensing that how to boost the presently practiced disaster management programs victimization these techniques.