NATURAL HAZARD AND DISASTER INFORMATION THROUGH NASA'S GLOBALCHANGE MASTER DIRECTORY

摘要

Natural disasters in 2005 caused over 150 billion dollars in economic damages and 92,000 deaths worldwide. The Sumatra earthquake and tsunami in December 2004, Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and the Pakistan earthquake in October 2005, have heightened the public's interest in the causes of natural hazards and the effects of natural disasters. NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) enables users to locate and obtain access to natural hazard and disaster data sets. The GCMD also enables users to locate services related to natural hazards and disasters, including environmental advisories and educational resources. The GCMD provides the capability to seamlessly navigate between data sets and services via a link between associated data set and service descriptions. There are over 260 natural hazard data sets described in the GCMD including tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and other hazards, and more than 200 descriptions of environmental advisory and hazard management services.