Many countries in the world suffer enormous damage from natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons and torrential rain. In Japan, the government has steadily implemented disaster prevention measures including earthquake prediction system, river improvements and maintenance of mudslide-control dams, but we are still often threatened by forces of nature far beyond our prediction.
To protect people’s lives from such disasters and minimize the economic losses caused by disasters, PASCO acquires emergency imageries of stricken areas by satellite and aircraft immediately after the occurrence of a disaster. The imageries are used to grasp the range and extent of the affected area and are utilized to prevent secondary disasters and enable smooth reconstruction work.