Disaster Analysis and Decision System

• US 20120150783A1
• Filed: 12/09/2010
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dong Seop Lee, Sang Suk Lee, Sungeun Jung, Yoonrak Hwang
• Original Assignee: Dong Seop Lee, Sang Suk Lee, Sungeun Jung, Yoonrak Hwang
• Inventors: Jung, Sungeun, Hwang, Yoonrak, Lee, Dong Seop, Lee, Sang Suk
• Granted Patent: US 8,655,806 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/46
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0224 Process history based detection method, e.g. whereby history implies the availability of large amounts of data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/20 Design optimisation, verification or simulation optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation

Abstract

A disaster analysis and decision system comprises a geographic area module that comprises geographic data for a given geographic area; an artificial facilities module that comprises artificial facilities data positioned in the geographic area; a disaster control facilities module that comprises disaster control facilities data for the geographic area; an environmental variable module that receives and stores environmental variables that affects the geographic area; an analysis module that analyzes how the environmental variables affect the geographic area, the artificial facilities within the geographic area and the disaster control facilities for the geographic area, and decides how to control the disaster control facilities; a report module that provides reports for the analysis; and a database that stores data from other modules.

Claims

1. A disaster analysis and decision system comprising:

a) a geographic area module that comprises geographic data for a given geographic area;

b) an artificial facilities module that comprises artificial facilities data positioned in the geographic area;

c) a disaster control facilities module that comprises disaster control facilities data for the geographic area;

d) an environmental variable module that receives and stores environmental variables that affects the geographic area;

e) an analysis module that analyzes how the environmental variables affect the geographic area, the artificial facilities within the geographic area and the disaster control facilities for the geographic area, and decides how to control the disaster control facilities;

f) a report module that provides reports for the analysis; and

g) a database that stores data from the geographic area module, the artificial facilities module, the disaster control facilities module, the environmental variable module, the analysis module and the report module.

2. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 1, wherein the environmental variable comprises precipitation and wind over a specific portion of the geographic area.

3. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 2, wherein the analysis module handles data from the geographic module, the artificial facilities module, the disaster control facilities module and/or the environmental variable module, wherein the analysis module compensates the data statistically whereby the influence of faulty data included in the data is eliminated.

4. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 3, wherein the analysis module compensates the data with reference to feedback from the geographic module, the artificial facilities module, the disaster control facilities module and/or the environmental variable module.

5. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 4, wherein the faulty data compensated by the analysis module include sensor disorder, actuator disorder, human error, and wrong data input.

6. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 1, wherein the disaster control facilities data includes data for drain pump capacity and opening flood gates.

7. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 6, wherein the decision to control the disaster control facilities includes operation commands for drain pumps and flood gates.

8. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 1, wherein the analysis module allocate drainage capacity based on analysis of data from the geographic module, the artificial facilities module, the disaster control facilities module and/or the environmental variable module.

9. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 8, wherein the analysis module calculates water level change along the time for a given area based on the geographic data around the given area, wherein the analysis module calculates expected damages for the artificial facilities for a given area based on the calculated water level change and the artificial facilities data, wherein the analysis module decides allocation for drainage capacity to minimize the damages for the artificial facilities.

10. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 9, wherein the analysis module calculates damage area according to degree of flood.

11. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 1, wherein the analysis module organizes statistical disaster data for a given unit area and constructs a disaster data map for a given area based on the data stored in the database.

12. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 1, wherein the analysis module decides issuance of disaster alarms and recommended prevention measures for disaster based on the latest data for a given area and areas adjacent to the given area.

13. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 1, wherein the analysis module monitors the environmental variable and predicts damages to the artificial facilities according to the change of the environmental variable for a given area.

14. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 12, wherein the environmental variable comprises precipitation and the damage comprises inundated area.

15. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 1, wherein the analysis module analyzes local disaster vulnerability based on based on analysis of data from the geographic module, the artificial facilities module, the disaster control facilities module and/or the environmental variable module.

16. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 15, wherein the geographic module utilizes GIS, wherein the analysis module analyzes local disaster vulnerability within predetermined percentage probability radius for hurricane path.

17. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 16, wherein the predetermined percentage is 70%.

18. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 1, wherein the analysis module performs rainfall rate contour analysis when there is a precipitation convergence zone.

19. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 18, wherein the analysis module analyzes risky area into which precipitation is concentrated based on accumulated precipitation within specified period and specified local area.

20. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 1, wherein the analysis module analyzes wind and/or water damage vulnerability based on GIS.

21. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 20, wherein the analysis module evaluates local disaster vulnerability with real time weather situation per natural disaster type, which comprises hurricane, heavy rainfall and snowfall), and human population density, geography, financial value, and past damage data, and decides special manage area per risky area with vulnerability evaluation.

22. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 1, wherein the analysis module estimates current status of a river and upstreams of the river according to water level rise of the river with the geographic data.

23. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 1, wherein the report module shows hurricane course status, wherein the analysis module compares adjacent country'"'"'s hurricane path, establishes a scenario, and analyzes similar hurricane, wherein the analysis module analyzes vulnerability of an area within the hurricane path, wherein the report module constructs a detail screen for city or other administrative regions.

24. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 23, wherein the operations of the report module and the analysis module are based on the data from the geographic module, the artificial facilities module, the disaster control facilities module and/or the environmental variable module and the operations are provided for a hurricane monitor area which is 16-25 degree front of the hurricane path.

25. The disaster analysis and decision system of claim 23, wherein the operations of the report module and the analysis module are based on the data from the geographic module, the artificial facilities module, the disaster control facilities module and/or the environmental variable module and the operations are provided for a hurricane alert area which is 25-28 degree front of the hurricane path.