TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oosterom,Peter van
AU  - Zlatanova,Siyka
AU  - Fendel,Elfriede M.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Geo-information for Disaster Management
SN  - 9783540274681
AV  - GA1-1776 
U1  - 910.285 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Geography
KW  - Earth sciences
KW  - Computers
KW  - Geographical information systems
KW  - Ecotoxicology
KW  - Geographical Information Systems/Cartography
KW  - Earth Sciences, general
KW  - Environmental Monitoring/Analysis
KW  - Information Systems and Communication Service
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
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N2  - 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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