Q: What personal qualities have made your career possible? A: An advantage I have is having an open mind and being humble enough to realize that you can’t be an expert in everything. As problems become bigger, especially in the case of natural disasters, we have to work more with other scientists, other engineering groups, but also with the social sciences— psychologists, disaster managers, his...

Estimating flood risks and managing disasters combines knowledge in climatology, meteorology, hydrology, hydraulic engineering, statistics, planning and geography – thus a complex multi-faceted problem. This study focuses on the capabilities of multi-source remote sensing data to support decision-making before, during and after a flood event. With our focus on urbanized areas, sample methods an...

iran stands in one of the most disastrous areas in the world and is exposed to different huge and horrible disasters. its settlement on the europe-asia fault makes iran a seismic region. climatically, iran is part of the afro-asian belt of deserts. the lut desert, which has been called the hottest place on earth, is settled in iran and the climate changes have led to considerable increase in fl...

In recent time, a great deal of research effort has been directed toward promptly facilitating post-disaster communication by using wireless mesh networks (WMNs). WMN technology has been considered to be effectively exploited for this purpose as it provides multi-hop communication through an access network comprising wireless mesh routers (MRs), which are connected to the Internet through gatew...

1 Information Security Center, State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.O. Box 145, Beijing 100876, China 2 Key Laboratory of Network and Information Attack and Defence Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China 3 National Engineering Laboratory for Disas...

As the main means of monitoring and early warning of geological disaster, the slope stability analysis is an important part of the geological disaster prevention project. GIS plays an important role in the evaluation of slope stability due to its powerful functions for data processing and spatial analysis. This article discusses the key technology of GIS applied in the slope bolt support design...

Disaster Management (DM) is a multidisciplinary endeavour and a very difficult knowledge domain to model. It is a diffused area of knowledge that is continuously evolving and informally represented. Metamodel is the output artefact of metamodelling, a software engineering approach, which makes statements about what can be expressed in the valid models of the knowledge domain. It is an appropria...

background:  some  disaster-stricken  people  in  iran  are  still  experiencing  challenges  of resuming normal life several months after the incident. however, there is not sufficient and in-depth understanding of the factors affecting the complex process of post disaster recovery in iran and rural areas in particular. this study aimed to explore the status of social capital in the process of...