Digital twin empowered urban flood and landslide emergency management
Dr. Limin Zhang is Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of Digital Cities and Smart Hazard Mitigation Laboratory at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Zhang is specialized in slopes, dams, and geotechnical risk assessment and management. He is Chair of International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)’s TC210 on Embankment Dams, Past Chair of ASCE Geo-Institute’s Risk Assessment and Management Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Georisk, Special Editor of Geodata and AI, Associate Editor of ASCE’s Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, and editorial board member of Engineering Geology, Computers and Geotechnics and other journals. He is recipient of ASCE Ralph Peck Award, Chinese National Engineer Award, ISSMGE’s Lacasse Lecture Award and GEOSNet’s Wilson Tang Lecture Award.
Speech Title:
Digital twin empowered urban flood and landslide emergency management
Abstract
Climate change leads to more frequent and intense rainstorms. Many megacities need to answer the question “how to cope with extreme rainstorms such as the fatal storm on 20 July 2021 in Zhengzhou China.” In the digital era, digital twin emerges as a powerful tool to empower urban flood and landslide emergency management and enhance urban resilience. A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical system and updated through the exchange of information between the physical and virtual systems. In this webinar, I will introduce a unique city-scale digital twin intended as an integrated platform for managing landslide and flood hazards and coordinating societal responses. The digital twin is capable of monitoring, simulating, and displaying both hazard and societal response processes, and hence enabling more effective disaster emergency management. The implementation of the digital twin will therefore substantially upgrade Hong Kong’s risk management capabilities and public safety, advance the smart-city blueprint, and promote public education.
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