GIS-Based Rapid Disaster Loss Assessment for Earthquakes

Soft Real-Time GIS for Disaster Monitoring

The goal of this paper is to underline the importance of real-time systems for managing information during the phase of disaster monitoring. We stress the importance of soft real-time GIS, and we present a list of barriers to overcome in order to get this kind of system. Among the barriers, we present a solution for real-time indexing of spatiotemporal data based on a data structure named PO-Tree.

GIS-based Framework for Wildfire Risk Assessment

Rapid assessment of disaster damage using social media activity.

Could social media data aid in disaster response and damage assessment? Countries face both an increasing frequency and an increasing intensity of natural disasters resulting from climate change. During such events, citizens turn to social media platforms for disaster-related communication and information. Social media improves situational awareness, facilitates dissemination of emergency infor...

Assessment of Role of GIS for Natural Disaster Management : A Critical Review

In recent years, Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) technologies has been the object of considerable interest to all bodies concerned with space and in particular emergency services and disaster management. In this paper we, address the issues regarding contemporary works on role of GIS in disaster Management. This paper is a review of some interesting and milestone resear...

GIS-based rapid-assessment of bighead carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis (Richardson, 1845) suitability in reservoirs

Broad-scale niche models are good for examining the potential for invasive species occurrences, but can fall short in providing managers with site-specific locations for monitoring. Using Oklahoma as an example, where invasive bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) are established in certain reservoirs, but predicted to be widely distributed based on broad-scale niche models, we cast bighead...