Empowering community for slope information crowd-sourcing and monitoring based on web GIS
Landslide tragedies occurred in Taman Bukit Mewah, Bukit Antarabangsa on 6th December 2008. This traumatised the local residents and helped trigger awareness on supervision and monitoring of early signs of landslide in the residential area. This study’s goal is to facilitate local residents in ga...
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| Language: | English |
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2018
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/104228/1/FARAH%20HIJANAH%20BINTI%20EDDIE%20-%20IR.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/104228/ |
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| Summary: | Landslide tragedies occurred in Taman Bukit Mewah, Bukit Antarabangsa on 6th
December 2008. This traumatised the local residents and helped trigger awareness on
supervision and monitoring of early signs of landslide in the residential area. This study’s
goal is to facilitate local residents in gaining local knowledge and preparations for
possibilities of landslides. This study aims to integrate the GIS web-based technologies
with GIS community involvement in the use of the GIS portal. GIS community is a social
unit of people living in the same area and at the same time, sharing spatial information
among them. The GIS website display online map for Bukit Antarabangsa’s area, to
facilitate users, especially the local residents to search, view and learn about the area,
including the map and attributes information about slopes, hills, residential lots, roads
and water drainage. In addition, map can be printed directly through GIS website. The
daily rainfall information from Department of Irrigation and Drainage is integrated in
the system; the total rainfall for the area is displayed. This is important as rainfall is one
of the factors driving to landslide. The GIS website has e-form for users to report
incidents or problems that occur; clogged drains, fallen trees and landslides or landslip
with function to upload and download the pictures of the incidents. Reports then will be
screened in advance and if the reports relate to landslides, it will be forwarded directly
to local authorities. User requirement analysis was conducted using interview sessions,
and the respondents were from committee member of the local resident communities and
local authorities. From the analysis, it shows the GIS application in the community is
important to display and distribute maps with attribute information. GIS web portal userfriendliness
and effectiveness evaluation have been conducted with 20 participants.
From the feedback, the web portal are deemed suitable for community engagement in
landslide information crowd-sourcing and monitoring. GIS portal with GIS community
based information is relevant in empowering GIS among local residents as it will
increase efficiency of the residents in monitoring their surroundings and in responding
to potential disaster. |
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