Abstract

Chile has a high natural disaster risk index and is highly vulnerable to climate change. Because of this, it is crucial to achieve widespread community awareness of disasters, in order to enhance community resilience. To address this, a solution based on web technology to allow actors from the response system, and general users later, to visualize and contrast past and present images of an area affected by a disaster have been built and explored. The results indicate that this technology can be successfully developed to meet the functional and usability requirements of software engineering professionals, as well as experts from the Chilean disaster management agency. The main conclusion from this research effort is that this proof of concept technology has the potential to effectively enhance the risk perception of communities.