Large Wildfire Damage Areas and River Disaster Early Detection System
'2022 Disaster Safety Platform Technology Development Project Kick-off Meeting' held at Gyeongbuk Provincial Government Office.
[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Gwiyeol] Gyeongbuk Province held the "Kick-off Meeting for This Year's Disaster Safety Platform Technology Development Project" on the afternoon of the 27th at the Hwarang Room of the provincial government office.
At the kick-off meeting, more than 20 participants including officials from the Ministry of Science and ICT, forestry and river departments, and research institutions attended to present and discuss the research project.
This research was selected in July as part of the Ministry of Science and ICT's public R&D project and is a three-year project from July this year to June 2025, with a national budget of 3 billion KRW.
A consortium consisting of Kyungpook National University, the Korea Forest Cooperative, the Korea Electronics Technology Institute, and KBSC will conduct this research, designating the Uljin wildfire damage area as the demonstration site to develop a "Complex Sensing Technology and Integrated IoT Platform for River Disaster Response in Large Wildfire Damage Areas."
This system attaches sensors to the mountain slopes and nearby rivers in large wildfire damage areas, and AI analyzes the collected data to predict landslides or river pollution in advance.
Kim Jung-kwon, Director of the Disaster Safety Office of the province, said, "It is meaningful that this research to predict disasters such as landslides in large wildfire damage areas and to protect residents more safely is being conducted in our region," and added, "We hope the developed platform will spread nationwide in the future, and we will spare no support necessary."
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