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Constructing a physical layer of virtual cities for disaster mitigation

Published: 05 December 2005 Publication History

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This paper proposes a method of simulating natural disasters of a big city by constructing huge number of structural models of buildings using their geometries obtained from 3D GIS data.

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HAZUS System by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), http://www.fema.gov/hazus/.
[2]
P. Zhu, Y. Fujino, M. Hori and J. Kiyono, "Using 3D GIS Information for Structural Modeling of a Metropolis", The Tenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, Rome, Italy, 2005.

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ICAT '05: Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Augmented tele-existence
December 2005
291 pages
ISBN:0473106574
DOI:10.1145/1152399
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Published: 05 December 2005

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  1. 3D GIS
  2. structural modeling
  3. urban earthquake disaster reduction
  4. virtual city
  5. virtual reality

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ICAT05: The International Conference on Augmented Tele-Existence
December 5 - 8, 2005
Christchurch, New Zealand

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ICAT '05 Paper Acceptance Rate 48 of 48 submissions, 100%;
Overall Acceptance Rate 48 of 48 submissions, 100%

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