Descriptors of satellite thematic cartography for management of emergencies after disasters: case floods

Abstract

In this work, the authors show the results of an investigation that it charges great importance at the present time. It is referred to the characterization of the cartography that is elaborated with the purpose of attending the processes of taking decisions for the different actors that usually participate in the evaluation and attendance in the phase of post-disaster response (rescue, relief, and recovery). The investigation had as central motivation the bibliography lack that shows the cartographic approaches that should complete the elaborated maps of this type. Therefore, the objective consisted of "to apply the theoretical frame of the conceptualization of the cartographic descriptors in the making of maps of post-disaster emergency obtained starting from satellite information". To execute this objective, the authors starting from the information gathered by diverse documental sources, they have outlined a theoretical body
with the conceptualization and adaptation of the cartographic descriptors for this type of maps and they exemplify them with two cases of studies of maps that reflect the consequences of a disaster for a flood event. They conclude that the importance of this type of maps is evidenced to attend the processes of taking of decisions on the part of the agents of the post-disaster.