文件名称：GIS and disasters
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更新时间：2012-05-25 10:32:32
goodchild VGI GIS
Recent events, including the Indian Ocean tsunami, the hurricanes of the 2005 season, and the 7/7 and 9/11 terrorist attacks, have made us all acutely aware of the vulnerability of modern society. Knowing where such events have occurred and the geographic limits of their impacts is clearly important, particularly when combined with information on human populations, infrastructure, and other spatially distributed phenomena that may be relevant to response and recovery.