The Society of Civil Engineers SNS is used to survey the actual situation of heavy rainfall disasters. Inundation images, etc. are collected. July 16, 4:39.
A committee of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers, which is investigating the actual situation of flooding and flooding due to a series of heavy rains, reduced the scale of the field survey in order to prevent the spread of new coronavirus infection, while using SNS, inundation and flooding We have begun efforts to collect images and other information.
The flood control subcommittee of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers Water Engineering Committee has dispatched a survey team of researchers from all over the country to the field to understand the actual situation of inundation and river flooding and utilize it for future disaster prevention measures. It was
However, this is expected to be a small-scale survey by local researchers in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, and there was a concern that the information that could be collected during the field survey would be limited.
For this reason, the Committee has begun to use Twitter and other SNS to collect images from floods and floods from the general public, as well as to collect videos and collect information. The committee will analyze the water level and the speed of the flow from the images, etc., and use them for future measures.
“We will ask many people to cooperate,” said Associate Professor Masaharu Okada of the Kochi National College of Technology, who is a member of the committee, as the survey is indispensable when considering future disaster prevention measures.