Geo-information for Disaster Management [electronic resource] /edited by Peter Oosterom, Siyka Zlatanova, Elfriede M. Fendel.
by Oosterom, Peter [editor.]; Zlatanova, Siyka [editor.]; Fendel, Elfriede M [editor.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookPublisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.Description: XXVI, 1434 p. 516 illus. online resource.ISBN: 9783540274681.Subject(s): Geography | Information systems | Geographical information systems | Environmental toxicology | Geography | Geographical Information Systems/Cartography | Computer Applications in Geosciences | Environmental Monitoring/Analysis | Math. Applications in Geosciences | Ecotoxicology | Information Systems and Communication ServiceDDC classification: 910.285 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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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