A RAPID MAPPING SYSTEM IN CHINESE ACTIVE FAULT SURVEY PROJECT

Active fault survey, which is one kind of fundamental researches for reducing disaster risk from earthquake, has been implemented by multiple governmental agencies since the early 1990s in China. Chinese government sponsored some active fault survey projects these years. These researches and projects use a series of thematic maps to describe their processes, results and achievement. Since geography information science was introduced in late 1990s and applied since 2000s to these active fault survey projects, seismologists and experts began to draw thematic maps by this new technology. A convenient and fast way for seismologists and experts to produce atlas of active fault survey products is an important accelerator to achieve these projects.This paper studies on the rapid methodology of producing active fault survey atlas, which is basically built on the processes and contents of active fault projects in recent years, and introduces the methodology on two aspects of standardization and software development. This study has been applied to the ongoing active fault survey projects, and resulted in more effective process, normative data and beautiful atlas. Thus these researches will be easier to be used in future application such as publication, internet sharing, and city development. This methodology has reference value to similar map-producing system in standardization and software development.