Network-based Food Quick Reporting System Using Remote Sensing

Floods happen frequently every year in China. How to control and mitigate the flood efficiently is the most urgent problem for the Chinese government. One of the most significant ways is to improve the capabilities of flood early warning, flood controlling and mitigation, rescuing, and reconstruction planning for disaster areas. However, there is still no operational system for these demands. For this reason, the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, CAS and State Information Center of China have cooperatively developed a Network-based Flood Quick Reporting System Using Remote Sensing (NFQRS/URS) since 1996. The system distributes flood information to government, organizations and the public by network on time. It plays a great ro/spl circ/le in controlling and mitigating floods occurring since 1996, especially in the middle and lower Yangtze River, Nen River and Songhua River in 1998. This paper introduces the system in detail.