GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION BASED EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEM FOR GEOLOGICAL DISASTERS

A Geospatial Information Grid Framework for Geological Survey

The use of digital information in geological fields is becoming very important. Thus, informatization in geological surveys should not stagnate as a result of the level of data accumulation. The integration and sharing of distributed, multi-source, heterogeneous geological information is an open problem in geological domains. Applications and services use geological spatial data with many featu...

Wireless Internet Information System for Medical Response in Disasters (WIISARD)

Infrastructure Management Information System Framework for Disasters

PRADHAN, ANU RAJ. Infrastructure Management Information System Framework for Disasters. (Under the direction of Dr. Debra F. Laefer) Three-tiered enterprise GIS architecture offers a robust, efficient, and secure mechanism as a potential revolution to disaster management systems. This paper addresses the severe limitations of existing disaster management systems and proposes an integrated manag...

Intelligent Use of Geospatial Information for Emergency Operation Management

This paper presents the EU project SHARE which aims at developing a mobile service architecture to support largescale rescue operations with multimedia communication and information services. The task of planning and controlling large-scale rescue operations requires flexible and robust tools which help the rescue forces to do their search and rescue work with maximum efficiency. Resource plann...

Information for disasters, information disasters, and disastrous information.

Information is needed to support humanitarian responses in every phase of a disaster. Participants of a multilateral working group convened to examine how best to meet these information needs. Although information systems based on routine reporting of diseases are desirable because they have the potential to identify trends, these systems usually do not deliver on their promise due to inadequat...