Realization of Effective Disaster Victim Support Through Development of Victim Master Database with Geo-Reference – A Case Study of 2007 Niigataken Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake –

Once a disaster occurs, local governments have a re-sponsibility to provide many kinds of administrative support to the people affected. However, it is very dif-ficult for local responders to get an understanding of the victims’ progress in rebuilding their lives because of the lack of a unified master database of information on the victims. In response to this issue, we aimed to design and develop such a master database, following the work flow of administrative supports. Based on this database, we also graphically represented the sta-tus of the progress victims were making in rebuilding their lives in GIS in the city of Kashiwazaki after the 2007 Chuetsu-oki Earthquake in Niigata Prefecture. As a result of this visualization, it was realized that local responders had provided support to the victims in an aggressive and effective manner.