Samal is the main city in the nation that includes two whole islands, subsequently its name

as the Island Garden City. While unblemished shorelines dab the island's shores, slopes
overwhelm the center parts of the island. Talikud Island is found southwest of the
fundamental island. IGaCoS appreciates a uniformly conveyed precipitation consistently
and a tropical storm free atmosphere, which make it perfect for horticultural generation. The
city's economy depends enormously in its farming creation. Copra, mango, corn,
vegetables, citrus and fish are the significant results of the island. Domesticated animals
creation is additionally a noteworthy item with Davao City as the essential business sector.
Likewise, rice is additionally delivered in the barangays of San Isidro in Babak District and
Aumbay in Peñaplata District. Angling is additionally a developing business segment in this
city, since the city was arranged on the island, it can't completely supplement the interest
for meat items imported from different parts of the nation, particularly in adjacent Davao
City. The city has no both compartment port and profound water transport terminal, with the
exception of a freight ship wharf at Babak area, to convey market items straightforwardly to
the city, so the city government pushed assembling fishery buildings over the city to
minimize the interest for business sector items imported to the city. Fish, pearls, and
eatable scavangers, for example, shrimps, prawns, and crabs are the fundamental oceanic
consumable items in the city.

Using Big Data to detect and predict natural

hazards better and faster: lessons learned
with hurricanes, earthquakes, floods
Simone Sala February 10, 2016 Blog
Data–Pop Alliance has been conducting ongoing research on Big
Data, climate change and environmental resilience. With funding from the
UK’s Department for International Development (DfID), we
published a synthesis report evaluating the opportunities, challenges and
required steps for leveraging the new ecosystem of Big Data and its potential
applications and implications for climate change and disaster resilience. This
report will feed into the World Humanitarian Summit to be organized in
Istanbul in May 2016.

This is the first in a series of companion pieces that offer insights from the
synthesis report. The authors of the series attempt to go “beyond the buzz” to
lay out what we actually know about Big Data’s existing utility for disaster
science and for building practical resilience.
Every day, geological, biological, hydrological, and climatic factors produce
natural hazards, which in some cases result in natural disasters that can have
a devastating impact on ecosystems and human societies. Hazards can be
geophysical (e.g. earthquakes, cyclonic storms), biological (e.g. infestation),
or generated by a combination of different factors (e.g. floods, wildfires, etc).

Big Data technologies can play a role in:

 monitoring hazards
 determining the exposure of human societies to disaster risk
 tracking impacts of disasters and monitoring recovery efforts
 mitigating vulnerabilities; and
 strengthening resilience of communities.

Particularly interesting is the role of Big Data for detecting earthquakes,

floods, hurricanes, as well as forecasting future occurrence of such hazards.

Earthquakes

Even if science is clear about the impossibility of predicting earthquakes, the

detection of such events increasingly leverages data from sensors and digital
social data.
Earthquake epicenters (1963-1998)
Source: NASA, Digital Tectonic Activity Map (DTAM) project

The combined application of accelerometers in mobile phones and computers

with cloud computing can help faster detection of their occurrence. A group of
scientists (Cochran, Lawrence, Christensen, and Jakka) employed this
approach to develop the Quake-Catcher Network (QCN), a seismic network
leveraging distributed/volunteer computing to gain critical insights on an
earthquake by bridging traditional seismic stations with innovative data
sources. In 2009 the group demonstrated that it is possible to detect small
earthquakes through a global network of computers connected via the
Internet, highlighting the existing capacity to develop rapid earthquake early
warning systems at relatively low cost thanks to distributed data collected from
the Internet.
In 2014 a group of scientists (Musaev, Wang, and Pu) developed LITMUS, a
model to detect landslides following earthquakes by integrating multiple data
sources. By integrating social sensors (Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube) and
physical sensors (USGS seismometers and TRMM satellite), the model
scored better than traditional techniques employed by USGS for real-time
hazard mapping.

Digital social data from relevant organizations are being integrated to detect
when crises happen. For example, the USGS monitors Tweets mentioning
earthquakes worldwide with magnitudes of 5.5 and above as a means of
detecting them and issuing alerts more broadly through their Twitter
Earthquake Dispatch (@USGSted).

Floods

Big Data also allow the early detection of floods. By combining information
related to flooding from Twitter and satellite observations, a group of scientists
(De Groeve, Kugler, and Brakenridge) built a real-time map of location, timing,
and impact of floods. The map, constantly updated, can be accessed online.
Global flood maps from 1985 to 2007
Source: Dartmouth Flood Observatory Global Active Archive of Large Flood
Events
Social media enables qualitative situational analysis before, during, and after
disasters. Floodtags (a social media analytics platform) was employed to
extract information from Twitter, enabling the filtering, visualization, and
mapping of social media content based on location and keywords. Satellite
data came from the Global Flood Detection System (GFDS), which provides a
service for rapid identification of inundated areas through daily passive
microwave satellite observations. The approach was tested in two case
studies, respectively in the Philippines and in Pakistan, proving to be
particularly appropriate for monitoring large floods in densely populated areas.
Twitter pattern linked to 2014 floods in the Philippines
Source: Jongman et al., 2015
In the Netherlands, where the vast majority of the population lives in flood-
prone areas, the government has started experimenting with how machine
learning may help strengthen preparedness to future floods. In Australia, the
New South Wales State Emergency Service developed an early warning
system able to perform predictive analysis of floods in the region based on the
integration of the Bureau of Meteorology’s external data and additional
datasets (e.g. data from flood plain, historical data information from various
databases).

Storms

Big Data has also proven to be helpful in monitoring and assessing the
impacts of storms, whether they be hurricanes, typhoons or cyclones (such
distinction depending only on the location in which the storm happens).
Indeed, Big Data technologies allow an unprecedented capacity to crunch
data from distributed datasets that will help gain innovative insights on the
weather system. The Government of South Korea, for example, upgraded the
simulation capacity of its meteorological office by 1,000% – providing it with
the most capable storage system of the country. Not only weather data, but
also social data as well as data from mobile telecommunication operators can
be useful for mapping and analyzing meteorological hazards. In Bangladesh,
the Mobile Data, Environmental Extremes and Population (MDEEP)
project investigated how data from the national telecommunication operator
Grameenphone could have provided insights on the effectiveness of early
warning systems during the occurrence of cyclone Mahasen in 2013.

Big Data-powered visualization tools seem particularly promising for helping

real-time sensemaking of the weather system as well as for raising awareness
of natural hazards among citizens. Earth, an open source animated map
integrating data from NOAA’s global forecast system and OSCAR’s ocean
currents, among other sources, is a clear example of such potentialities.