Drawing Improvement Measures of a Smart Disaster Monitoring Management System in an Integrated Manner through Analyzing Overseas Cases

Disaster situation management is critical for reducing vulnerability in disaster and safety management areas, fostering safety awareness and improving response capabilities in the event of a disaster. Accordingly, National Disaster Management Research Institute of Korea has been running a smart disaster monitoring management system (SDMMS) to manage disasters in an integrated manner. However, the system has faced some limitations in disaster information collection in accordance with disaster management phases. Overseas cases have shown some implications regarding the system. Thus it is necessary to find out measures to improve the system. This study has intended to draw improvement measures of the SDMMS through analyzing overseas cases. To meet the purpose, this study has developed a case analysis framework composed of two major categories such as both information gathering and construction system, As a result, this study has found following improvement measures: 1) SDMMS needs to expand its functions to managing disaster and safety information holistically; 2) SDMMS needs to adopt an integrated approach in collecting disaster information; and 3) SDMMS needs to be available at all disaster management phases.