The Disaster Management Tool (DMT)

The Disaster Management Tool (DMT) is a software system supporting decision makers, surveillance and intervention teams during disaster response. It is as well designed for training and mitigation tasks. As a result of the interdisciplinary German Collaborative Research Center 461: “Strong Earthquakes: A Challenge for Geosciences and Civil Engineering” the DMT consists of components resulting from the different research projects such as fast and reliable damage estimation using seismic data as input, use of up-to-date reconnaissance techniques such as automatic damage interpretation based on airborne laser scanning data, estimation of the trapped victims based on these reconnaissance techniques and the support of disaster management personnel with information and communication tools. The included decision support system helps to coordinate and allocate the limited response resources to enhance their overall efficiency. Onsite rescue operations are supported by an expert system analyzing damage information acquired after the earthquake, combined with data about the buildings’ construction and occupancy collected prior to the earthquake.
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The system was tested by the emergency operations center staff and disaster response teams from Bucharest using real world data from a defined area in Bucharest, Romania. The concept of the DMT and the results of the tests are presented in this paper.
The German Collaborative Research Center 461 strongly works together with the Romanian Group for Vrancea Strong Earthquakes (RGVE), the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations of Romania and the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (Technisches Hilfswerk, THW).