Impact Forecasting to Support Emergency Management of Natural Hazards

concept of time and forecasting techniques of natural hazards

although the history of hazard recognition goes back to years ago, and even some techniques were invented to predict it, hazard studies are new in the current knowledge. the concept of hazard and risk will be defined when the events show two special properties: first, they happen unexpectedly, and second, their occurrence cause harm to us. the general state of the earth should be considered amo...

Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machine for Natural Hazards Forecasting. Case Study: Snow Avalanches

This paper explores the use of Support Vector Machine (SVM) as a predictive engine for natural hazards forecasting. It particularly discusses the issues of incorporating this classification method into a decision-support system for operational use in avalanche forecasting. The recent developments concerned with semi-supervised and transductive SVM-based learning targeted at applications in natu...

Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM).

The Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM) website from the National Library of Medicine is designed for first responders and medical providers who are planning for and responding to chemical hazards events. It includes pages tailored to the individual interests of specific groups, including first responders, health care providers, mental health professionals, toxicologists, and ...

Geoinformation Technologies to Support Collaborative Emergency Management

In today's emergency management environments geoinformation technologies play a vital role, but their potential has not been fully exploited. Key decision makers usually do not have direct access to Geographic Information Systems and if they receive access, complex user interfaces often hinder performance for high pressure tasks. In order to provide decision makers with direct and easy access t...

Multiagent Systems to Support Coordinated Emergency Management