摘要
edited by Guo Huadong,Boca Raton,London,New York,CRC Press,Taylor&Francis Group,2010,244 plus 20 introduction,(hardback),ISBN:978-1-4398-1674-5 The Wenchuan earthquake which hit Sichuan Province in China on 12 May 2008,was the largest earthquake in China since the great Tangshan earthquake of 28 July 1976,when 250,000 people died.In contrast to that event,which occurred at the end of the Cultural Revolution in China,when there was no international aid or response,and no high technology available to assist the relief operations,this Wenchuan earthquake saw the Chinese Academy of Sciences(together with many other Ministries and Relief organizations)take immediate action.Making full use of the Academy’s state-of-the-art facilities,its remote sensing aircraft,and satellite data,the Academy amassed many terabytes of optical and radar data of the earthquake region,to assist the rescue workers and decision makers.
