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3. APPLICATION 
3.1 Application Cases 
Applications in the field of disaster mitigation: To prevent 
secondary disaster and to efficiently provide aids to victims in 
the event of a large scale natural disaster, GSI prepares maps by 
using Global Map data, which show geographic features of 
disaster hit area. These maps are distributed to all over the 
world through the Relief Web (www.reliefweb.int) operated by 
the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian 
Affairs (UNOCHA) as well as the websites of the ISCGM and 
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Applications in the flood analysis: Global Map data are used 
for runoff analysis in the Integrated Flood Analysis System 
(IFAS) developed by International Center for Water Hazard and 
Risk Management (ICHARM), Public Works Research Institute 
of Japan (PWRI). The main objective of the IFAS is to reduce 
flood damages in developing countries where hydrologic 
information is not sufficiently available. In addition to satellite- 
based and ground-based rainfall data, Global Map data are used 
for runoff analysis. Global Map Land Use and Land Cover data 
are used for setting parameters, such as roughness and surface 
permeability in combination with other data, such as soil and 
geological data. Global Map Elevation data are used for 
creating a basin boundary and a water flow network. 
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Application in the field of Climate Change: Global Map can 
contribute to policy making processes in climate change field. 
Global Map can be used for the greenhouse gas (GHG) 
inventory in Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry 
(LULUCF) sector when the parties which contract United 
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 
(UNFCCC) report their national GHG inventories to the 
UNFCCC Secretariat based on UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol. 
Global Map Land Cover data can be used for calculation of 
emissions and removals of GHGs as well as its supplementation 
and cross-checking, especially in the countries where statistics 
and geographic information are not well developed. 
Global Map Land Cover data are introduced as an example of 
international land cover dataset in the Intergovernmental Panel 
on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for GHG inventory: 
“IPCC Good Practice Guidance for LULUCF” and “2006 IPCC 
Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.” 
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Application in the field of Biodiversity Protection: By 
overlaying the Global Map on data of wild life habitats, it is 
possible to visualize the spatial distribution of biodiversity, 
providing supports in biodiversity conservation. 
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Figure 11: Global Map for biodiversity conservation planning 
The 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties of 
Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10) took place in 
Nagoya, Japan in October 2010. GSI displayed a large-scale 
Global Map poster (5m by 3m) on the floor in the exhibition 
booth. The poster was created by overlaying habitats of 
threatened species on Global Map Land Cover. 
Release of “Print-ready Global Map”: The MLIT of Japan 
and the Secretariat of the ISCGM released “Print-ready Global 
Map” data via the Internet. This is a trial effort for the use of