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Geo-information technology offers an opportunity to support disaster management: industrial accidents, road collisions, complex emergencies, earthquakes, fires, floods and similar catastrophes (for example the recent huge disaster with the Tsunami in South-East Asia on 26 December 2004). Access to needed information, facilitation of the interoperability of emergency services, and provision of high-quality care to the public are a number of the key requirements.
Such requirements pose significant challenges for data management, discovery, translation, integration, visualization and communication based on the semantics of the heterogeneous (geo-) information sources with differences in many aspects: scale/resolution, dimension (2D or 3D), classification and attribute schemes, temporal aspects (up-to-date-ness, history, predictions of the future), spatial reference system used, etc.
The book provides a broad overview of the (geo-information) technology, software, systems needed, used and to be developed for disaster management. The book provokes a wide discussion on systems and requirements for use of geo-information under time and stress constraints and unfamiliar situations, environments and circumstances.
Subjects of the book :
Earth Science
Contents of the book :
Orchestra : developing a unified open architecture for risk management applications Laser scanning applications on disaster management
Big brother or eye in the sky? : legal aspects of space-based geo-information for disaster management
ICT for environmental risk management in the EU research context
Airborne passive microwave radiometry for emergency response
Flood vulnerability analysis and mapping in Vietnam
Geo information breaks through sector think
Accurate on-time geo-information for disaster management and disaster prevention by precise airborne lidar scanning
Methodology for making geographic information relevant to crisis management
The value of Gi4DM for transport & water management
A case study in multiagency GIS for managing a large-scale natural disaster
User-oriented provision of geoinformation in disaster management : potentials of spatial data infrastructures considering Brandenburg/Germany as an example
Pegasus : a future tool for providing near real time high resolution data for disaster management
Disaster management : the challenges for a national geographic information provider
CNES research and development and available software in the framework of space images based risk and disaster management
A decision support system for preventive evacuation of people .ISBN - 9788181289353
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Pages : 1460
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