Geo-information for Disaster Management  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Peter van Oosterom, Siyka Zlatanova, Elfriede M. Fendel. 
 - LII, 1433 p.  online resource. 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783540274681 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1007/b139115  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Geography.<br/>Earth sciences.<br/>Computers.<br/>Geographical information systems.<br/>Ecotoxicology.<br/>Geography.<br/>Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.<br/>Earth Sciences, general.<br/>Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.<br/>Ecotoxicology.<br/>Information Systems and Communication Service.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GA1-1776 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>910.285