Development of a Web GIS tsunami inundation mapping service

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2012

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Ayça, Aykut

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Tsunamis, as the catastrophic disasters, can cause loss of live and property when they come to the shores. Preparation of emergency plans is essential to reduce the damage. Consequently, any initiative in tsunami modeling and inundation mapping is of vital importance for progressing safety surveillance and maintenance. In an effort to achieve a thorough analysis of effect of tsunami, it is critical to estimate the geographical extent of possibly affected area and to predict tsunami impacts. The inundation mapping system also must serve to manage the simulation data in a scalable environment to reach end-users in the time of event. For this purpose, in this study, the generation of a Web based Geographic Information System (GIS) to serve inundation maps through web. The research methodology consists of four main stages: (i) simulating tsunamis based on six different scenarios (ii) processing simulation data through a GIS application; (iii) development of web interfaces and implementation of the developed model for Web-GIS application; (iv) verification of the created model for Marmara Sea Region. The proposed system is expected to be an efficient tool for improving inundation mapping efforts for expected tsunamis in Turkey.

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Offshore structures, Tsunami hazard zones., Tsunamis., Ocean waves.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614404/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21610

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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A. Ayça, “Development of a Web GIS tsunami inundation mapping service,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.