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Habili, N.
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Geoscience Australia (GA) conducts post-disaster field surveys to understand the vulnerability of buildings and infrastructure to natural disasters. GA has developed a range of tools to assist with exposure, damage capture and analysis. In this presentation, two open-source tools are discussed. The Rapid Inventory Collection System (RICS), due to be released shortly as open-source, is a vehicular data collection system used to capture and save geo-tagged imagery of damaged structures. RICS permits 100% coverage of building damage in a disaster-affected area. This enables fieldwork to be undertaken more efficiently than a traditional foot survey. The system consists of Ethernet cameras, a GPS receiver and software written in C++. The software is multi-threaded and uses wxWidgets, wxThreads, Boost and SQLite. The software was developed by a single software engineer using an iterative development process. Each iteration included requirements gathering, design, coding, and field/system testing. RICS has proven to be very robust and has been used operationally following the 2009 Victorian Bushfires, the 2010 Kalgoorlie and Christchurch Earthquakes, 2011 Brisbane floods and Tropical Cyclone Yasi to collect geo-tagged imagery of structures and buildings. The processing of RICS imagery, alongside other information sources such as satellite imagery, can be a significant task. Ideally, all information sources should be readily available to a user on a common user interface for analysis. To enable this, the Field Data Analysis Tool (FiDAT) is being developed. FiDAT will enable a user to view a wide range of data sources on a user interface to extract data on the nature and damage to an individual structure. The data can be updated, modified, and/or corrected to accurately reflect the severity of damage to a building. FiDAT is being developed in Python using an iterative development process. The beta version of this tool is due for completion in June 2012.
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