Geo-information for disaster management | |
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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. |
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Statement of Responsibility | |
Author(s) | International Symposium on Geo-information for Disaster Management 2005 : Delft, Netherlands) - Conference Oosterom, Peter van. - Personal Name Zlatanova, Siyka. - Personal Name Fendel, Elfriede M. - Personal Name |
Edition | |
Call Number | [TIN-LIB-100] |
Subject(s) | Congresses Disaster management |
Language | English |
Publisher | Springer |
Publishing Year | c2005 |
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