| Geo-Information for Disaster Management 2005 Edition Contributor(s): Van Oosterom, Peter (Editor), Zlatanova, Siyka (Editor), Fendel, Elfriede (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540249885 ISBN-13: 9783540249887 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $313.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography - Science | Earth Sciences - Geology - Computers | Information Technology |
| Dewey: 610.73 |
| LCCN: 2005920463 |
| Physical Information: 2.23" H x 6.43" W x 9.38" (4.79 lbs) 1433 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |