In early 2008, when southern China suffered a low-temperature freezing rain, outstanding shortcomings and weak links of China\'s disaster emergency legal system have been revealed in the severe test experienced by our whole country people and society.

By domestic SWDC digital aerial camera and other aerial remote sensing platforms the spatial and attribute information is acquired timely,accurately and effectively in the pre-disaster early warning,disaster emergency and post-disaster reconstruction state.

During the period of disaster emergency,according to the "producing as well as the application" principle,in only a month it has completed the production of 98 county photomaps of the 95 counties of whole coverage,the 2653 photomaps of 1:25,000 scale covering 95 counties and the 2114 photomaps of 1:5000 scale of key areas.

Advances in study on natural disaster emergency management in China;

Researches on human disaster psychology show: emergency management of gradual disasters should be paid attention to;psychological intervention should be in time to cure passive behaviors.

In this paper, the general knowledge and basic theory of Australian scholars on Urban Counter Disaster Plan are summarized.