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NEC Successfully Trials Landslide Prediction System in Thailand

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NEC Corporation in collaboration with Thailand’s National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC), announced the completion of a trial for a system that identifies areas where there is danger of a landslide occurring. The effectiveness of the system was confirmed as the trial was conducted in Chiang Mai Province in Northern Thailand during the period from November 2016 to March 2017.
Landslides caused by heavy rainfall are frequent in Thailand, and they result in personal injury and damage to property as well as affecting transportation by destruction of roads. For those reasons, measures for reducing such damage are urgently needed.
In April 2015, Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and Thailand’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (*1) issued a joint statement announcing that the two countries would cooperate in a wide range of areas, including the development of more sophisticated disaster prevention ICT and the use and application of the technologies. As a country that experiences frequent natural disasters, Japan is expected to contribute to disaster prevention in Thailand through provision of its advanced technologies.
This trial supports the disaster prevention cooperation project between Thailand and Japan. NEC conducted this trial in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan in Thailand as part of the “Research and study for the development of a landslide simulator in Thailand” project commissioned by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

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