Android-based Disaster Management Application for After-Disaster Rapid Mobile Assessment

As the most disaster-prone countries in the world, Indonesia is facing multiple hazards. However, due to some technical problems such as condition of the hazard level, the performances of disaster management have not yet run optimally. In contributing to the disaster management, this paper proposes the development of after-disaster rapid mobile assessment application using android platform. The application which is a client-server-based system is deployed on a web server for the server side and implemented on a mobile device for the client side. By using the proposed application which then it is named as Mobile Indonesia Damage Data Assessor (MIDDAS), the assessors are allowed to inventory disaster-damaged buildings by uploading the damage data into the rapid damage assessment server to be displayable on the web pages. Based on the data, the decision maker can assess rapidly the essential damage information and calculate the required recovery cost.