Geo-information for Disaster Management
Publication year: 2005
ISBN: 978-3-540-27468-1
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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. 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.
Subject: Earth and Environmental Science, Access, Disaster Management, Geo-information, Information Technology (IT), classification, communication, environment, geo-services, information system, management, positioning, response, technology, time
