TerraGo GeoPDF Maps Accelerate Japan Disaster Damage Assessment
Hitachi Solutions
As part of the recovery efforts from the Mar. 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, federal, prefectural and local governments needed a way to rapidly disseminate, update and share information to determine which buildings and homes were damaged and to what degree so that property owners could receive government-issued disaster victim certificates. Complicating matters was the inability to physically enter the nuclear evacuation zone to conduct on-the-ground inspection of property damage.
