A Modest Proposal

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The report of the use of remote sensing for disaster management in Nepal is mainly focus the activities, challenge of use of remote sensing and disaster mitigation in Nepal. Natural disaster are Sudden event which destroy or damage the human life and properties such as communication system, agricultural land, buildings, forest, natural environment etc. Nepal is also affected by these type of hazards like flood, land slide, earth quake, forest fire, avalanches etc. for the management of this type of disaster large amount of multi temporal spatial data is required. Satellite remote sensing is the main tools of disaster management, since it offers information over large area and at short time intervals. The remote sensing can be utilized in the different area in different phases of disaster management, such as prevention period, preparedness period, relief period and reconstruction period. But in the case of Nepal , it is still growing phase due to the various challenges such as lack of awareness, governmental instability, economic status, instrumentation and skilled manpower. Therefore, together with the growth of the Geographic information and remote sensing tools have become progressively more important for disaster …show more content…

Now days, government as well as people have been aware of the potential risk and have been active in disaster risk mitigation. Nepal conducted different programme and plans for mitigation of disaster risk. Some of them are: Natural Calamity(Relief) Act,1982, Prime Minister natural calamity Rescue fund, Local Self Government act, 1999, Three Year interim plan 2007-2010, National Strategy for DRM 2009, Sectoral laws and policies: health, Environment and building, District Disaster Preparedness plans and present Disaster management agreement. Various Non-governmental organizations are also actively involved in different disaster

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