What are uses of remote sensing in disaster risk reduction?

Answer 1

Hello,

If I am understanding your question properly, I am not please forgive me but you can use remote sensing in 2 large ways for disaster risk reduction?

Prevention

The prevention section is probably the most common used (from what I have seen through my private and military career). The most common use that I have used it for is to show how we implemented our resources and how those resources effected the disaster zone over time. This was critical for us to create new out update plans going forward. It also led to new strategies on streamlining processes that would have taken longer before.

Active Planning

Within active planning you can use remote sensing in a real-time capacities to change your strategies as fast as you are recieving the data. This can be a bit harder to commit to due to the availability of data. But like with the fires that happened in the western U.S. in 2020, one can see that using real-time remote sensing can help fire crew plan proper attack methods before fighting the fires in harms way.

Remote sensing biggest thing is that you can have a few people create plans fairly quickly before or after disasters to create faster response times in the future of while an event is going on. It will also allow for a better plan of resource allocation over the event.