Disaster Early Warning Systems in Nepal: Institutional and Operational Frameworks

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WG Early Warning Systems

Early Warning Systems aim at detecting unclassified but potentially harmful system behavior based on preliminary indications and are complementary to Intrusion Detection Systems. Both kinds of systems try to detect, identify and react before possible damage occurs and contribute to an integrated and aggregated situation report (big picture). A particular emphasis of Early Warning Systems is to ...

Crowdsourcing in Early Warning Systems

The use of mobile devices as an effective and targeted way for alerting the public in cases of disasters has become an important part of future infrastructures for early warning and disaster management. In contrast to classical alert approaches such as TV, Radio and sirens that are offering solely a one-directional communication the use of smart phones opens new potentials such as feedback mech...

A Geo-textual Search Engine Approach Assisting Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management and Early Warning Systems

1 : 1 This work has been funded by the Oberfrankenstiftung This paper presents an approach used in geo-textual search engines for application in security related domains like disaster recovery or early warning systems. Current approaches suffer from search conditions utilizing some combined scheme of textual and geographical search predicates. Standard retrieval engines support only either text...

Early Warning Systems in the context of Disaster Risk Management Countries

Countries have long been concerned about the huge impacts that natural disasters have on society in developed and especially in developing countries. Unfortunately, societies have not adapted their frameworks of development to the natural environment surrounding them and the losses and costs associated with disasters of natural origin. On the contrary societal catastrophes are growing by the de...