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Author : Qunying Huang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Geographic Situational Awareness written by Qunying Huang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher E. Oxendine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information for Improved Situational Awareness During No-notice Emergencies written by Christopher E. Oxendine and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a terrorist attack, evacuees face uncertain risks when deciding which route to utilize while trying to evacuate. Immediately following an attack, information is very limited or non-existent. Emergency services personnel are responsible for finding and notifying evacuees of impending danger, and minimizing evacuation risk is crucial to limiting additional loss of life, especially in densely populated areas. One of the challenges for evacuees and emergency services personnel is sharing and collecting information. Recently, mobile phones and social media (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, and others) have provided a global platform for sharing information about terrorist events and a medium for emergency services personnel to collect Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). It is highly recommended that Emergency planners use VGI to supplement their decision making, notification processes, and response and recovery. With over 5 billion mobile phones world-wide, VGI can potentially contribute data that supports risk modeling and evacuation planning. The mass adoption of mobile phones provides citizens and emergency personnel with alternate methods of communication (i.e. voice, SMS, mobile applications, and access to social media). GPS accuracy on mobile phones continues to improve which further facilitates planning and response by emergency service personnel. This research provides two models. The first model is a multi-objective, multi-criteria model that analyzes mobile phone location data and seeks to minimize risk encountered by evacuees and distance traveled. The study area for the first model is Manhattan, New York City. Risk and distance traveled is determined for the evacuation routes and is modeled in a Geographic Information System (GIS) to determine optimum evacuation routes. The second model analyzes social media to determine risk to evacuees during a simulated terrorist attack at George Mason University. Individual terrorists attacks are modeled and then combined based on time of incident. High-risk areas are modeled for multiple terrorist attacks providing first responders with increased situational awareness. The second model in this research improves situational awareness immediately following a terrorist scenario and the first model provides a multi-objective, multi-criteria method for reducing risk to evacuees. This research contributes to improved evacuation routing and visualization of risk during emergencies and increases situational awareness of first responders and citizens.
Author : Susan Lindell Radke
Publisher : ESRI Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589483064
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Enabling Comprehensive Situational Awareness written by Susan Lindell Radke and published by ESRI Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enabling Comprehensive Situational Awareness explains how and why an integrated emergency management common operating platform can help save lives and mitigate loss during crises and disasters. A geographic information system (GIS) embedded in this platform is the key tool used by emergency management professionals to analyze extensive spatial data collections, as well as immediate field-level data. This book explains how this platform gives decision makers the overview necessary to coordinate efforts across agencies and jurisdictions and develop collaborative mitigation and recovery plans. An implementation guide for building a GIS in a common operating platform is included.
Author : Christopher E. Oxendine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information for Improved Situational Awareness During No-notice Emergencies written by Christopher E. Oxendine and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a terrorist attack, evacuees face uncertain risks when deciding which route to utilize while trying to evacuate. Immediately following an attack, information is very limited or non-existent. Emergency services personnel are responsible for finding and notifying evacuees of impending danger, and minimizing evacuation risk is crucial to limiting additional loss of life, especially in densely populated areas. One of the challenges for evacuees and emergency services personnel is sharing and collecting information. Recently, mobile phones and social media (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, and others) have provided a global platform for sharing information about terrorist events and a medium for emergency services personnel to collect Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). It is highly recommended that Emergency planners use VGI to supplement their decision making, notification processes, and response and recovery. With over 5 billion mobile phones world-wide, VGI can potentially contribute data that supports risk modeling and evacuation planning. The mass adoption of mobile phones provides citizens and emergency personnel with alternate methods of communication (i.e. voice, SMS, mobile applications, and access to social media). GPS accuracy on mobile phones continues to improve which further facilitates planning and response by emergency service personnel. This research provides two models. The first model is a multi-objective, multi-criteria model that analyzes mobile phone location data and seeks to minimize risk encountered by evacuees and distance traveled. The study area for the first model is Manhattan, New York City. Risk and distance traveled is determined for the evacuation routes and is modeled in a Geographic Information System (GIS) to determine optimum evacuation routes. The second model analyzes social media to determine risk to evacuees during a simulated terrorist attack at George Mason University. Individual terrorists attacks are modeled and then combined based on time of incident. High-risk areas are modeled for multiple terrorist attacks providing first responders with increased situational awareness. The second model in this research improves situational awareness immediately following a terrorist scenario and the first model provides a multi-objective, multi-criteria method for reducing risk to evacuees. This research contributes to improved evacuation routing and visualization of risk during emergencies and increases situational awareness of first responders and citizens.
Author : Zhenlong Li
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000261492
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Social Sensing and Big Data Computing for Disaster Management written by Zhenlong Li and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Sensing and Big Data Computing for Disaster Management captures recent advancements in leveraging social sensing and big data computing for supporting disaster management. Specifically, analysed within this book are some of the promises and pitfalls of social sensing data for disaster relevant information extraction, impact area assessment, population mapping, occurrence patterns, geographical disparities in social media use, and inclusion in larger decision support systems. Traditional data collection methods such as remote sensing and field surveying often fail to offer timely information during or immediately following disaster events. Social sensing enables all citizens to become part of a large sensor network which is low cost, more comprehensive, and always broadcasting situational awareness information. However, data collected with social sensing is often massive, heterogeneous, noisy, and unreliable in some aspects. It comes in continuous streams, and often lacks geospatial reference information. Together, these issues represent a grand challenge toward fully leveraging social sensing for emergency management decision making under extreme duress. Meanwhile, big data computing methods and technologies such as high-performance computing, deep learning, and multi-source data fusion become critical components of using social sensing to understand the impact of and response to the disaster events in a timely fashion. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Digital Earth.
Author : Robert F. DeFraites
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Gaining Experience with Military Medical Situational Awareness and Geographic Information Systems in a Simulated Influenza Epidemic written by Robert F. DeFraites and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sisi Zlatanova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642332188
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Intelligent Systems for Crisis Management written by Sisi Zlatanova and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been major advances in technologies to support crisis response in the last few years. However, many aspects related to the efficient collection and integration of geo-information, applied semantics and situation awareness for disaster management are still open. To advance the systems and make them intelligent, an extensive collaboration is required between emergency responders, disaster managers, system designers and researchers. To facilitate this process the Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM) conference has been organized since 2005. Gi4DM is coordinated by the Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JB GIS) and the ad-hoc Committee on Risk and Disaster Management. This volume presents the results of the Gi4DM 2012 conference, held in Enschede, the Netherlands, on 13-15 December . It contains a selection of around 30 scientific and 25 best-practice peer-reviewed papers. The 2012 Gi4DM focuses on the intelligent use of geo-information, semantics and situation awareness.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309175119
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tactical Display for Soldiers written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-01-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the human factors issues associated with the development, testing, and implementation of helmet-mounted display technology in the 21st Century Land Warrior System. Because the framework of analysis is soldier performance with the system in the full range of environments and missions, the book discusses both the military context and the characteristics of the infantry soldiers who will use the system. The major issues covered include the positive and negative effects of such a display on the local and global situation awareness of the individual soldier, an analysis of the visual and psychomotor factors associated with each design feature, design considerations for auditory displays, and physical sources of stress and the implications of the display for affecting the soldier's workload. The book proposes an innovative approach to research and testing based on a three-stage strategy that begins in the laboratory, moves to controlled field studies, and culminates in operational testing.
Author : Werner Kuhn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540201483
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Spatial Information Theory. Foundations of Geographic Information Science written by Werner Kuhn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-09-15 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2003, held at Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland, in September 2003. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontologies of space and time, reasoning about distances and directions, spatial reasoning - shapes and diagrams, computational approaches, reasoning about regions, vagueness, visualization, and landmarks and wayfinding.
Author : Chen Xu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Exploring Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for Emergency Management written by Chen Xu and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past three years have witnessed unprecedented growth of user-generated volunteered geographic information (VGI) on the Web. Although scholars, decision makers, and citizens have recognized the potential value of VGI in emergency management, there exists no rigorous study on the availability, quality, and feasibility of VGI for applications related to emergency management. This dissertation applies methodologies of GIScience and computer science to present an overview of VGI and explore its value in emergency management with the goal of developing a wiki GIS approach for community emergency preparedness. This dissertation research concludes that VGI and wiki GIS represent new development in public participation in the production and use of geographic information. In emergency management, VGI and wiki GIS suggest a new approach to incorporate the general public in emergency response activities. By incorporating VGI in emergency management, official agencies and the general public gain better situational awareness in emergency management.
Author : Christian Freksa
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540483845
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Spatial Information Theory. Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science written by Christian Freksa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conference on Spatial Information Theory – COSIT – grew out of a series of workshops / NATO Advanced Study Institutes / NSF specialist meetings concerned with cognitive and applied aspects of representing large-scale space, particularly geographic space. In these meetings, the need for a well-founded theory of spatial information processing was identified. The COSIT conference series was established in 1993 as a biennial interdisciplinary European conference on the representation and processing of information about large-scale space, after a successful international conference on the topic had been organized by Andrew Frank et al. in Pisa, Italy, in 1992 (frequently referred to as ‘COSIT zero’). After two successful European conferences with strong North-American participation (COSIT ’93, held on the Island of Elba, Italy; COSIT ’95, held in Semmering, Austria), the conference became a truly international enterprise when COSIT ’97 was held in the Laurel Highlands, Pennsylvania, USA. COSIT ’99 will take place in Stade, Germany. All aspects of large-scale space, i. e. spaces too large to be seen from a single vantage point, are addressed in the COSIT conferences. These include spaces of geographic scale, as well as smaller spaces in which humans, animals, or autonomous robots have to find their way around. Spatial information theory also deals with the description of objects, processes, or events in spatial environments and it forms the foundation for the construction of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and for spatial information and communication system design in general.
Author : Wolfgang Kresse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540726780
Total Pages : 1132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Springer Handbook of Geographic Information written by Wolfgang Kresse and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer science provides a powerful tool that was virtually unknown three generations ago. Some of the classical fields of knowledge are geodesy (surveying), cartography, and geography. Electronics have revolutionized geodetic methods. Cartography has faced the dominance of the computer that results in simplified cartographic products. All three fields make use of basic components such as the Internet and databases. The Springer Handbook of Geographic Information is organized in three parts, Basics, Geographic Information and Applications. Some parts of the basics belong to the larger field of computer science. However, the reader gets a comprehensive view on geographic information because the topics selected from computer science have a close relation to geographic information. The Springer Handbook of Geographic Information is written for scientists at universities and industry as well as advanced and PhD students.
Author : Filip Hostiuc
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9402421424
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Enhancing Capabilities for Crisis Management and Disaster Response written by Filip Hostiuc and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science for Peace and Security (SPS) cooperation brings together NATO & partners to address common security concerns reflected in the so-called SPS Key Priorities. These include emerging security challenges such as terrorism, cyber defense or energy security, as well as human and social aspects of security, support to NATO-led mission and operation, advanced technologies with security applications, and early warning. The SPS project “Advanced Civil Emergency Coordination Pilot in the Western Balkans” addresses several of these areas. As a key regional SPS flagship project, it helps to build capacity in response to a concrete security challenge. The Western Balkans is a region frequently affected by natural disasters and the pilot project provides emergency responders in the region with an incident command system that allows sharing information about disasters in a fast and easy way, enhancing situational awareness and building capacity in the area of civil emergency coordination.
Author : Anthony A. Higdon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Applications of Geographic Information Systems in United States Air Force Emergency Management Operations written by Anthony A. Higdon and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Tomaszewski
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482211688
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Disaster Management written by Brian Tomaszewski and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide essential disaster management decision support and analytical capabilities. As such, homeland security professionals would greatly benefit from an interdisciplinary understanding of GIS and how GIS relates to disaster management, policy, and practice. Assuming no prior knowledge in GIS and/or disaster management, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Disaster Management guides readers through the basics of GIS as it applies to disaster management practice. Using a hands-on approach grounded in relevant GIS and disaster management theory and practice, this textbook provides coverage of the basics of GIS. It examines what GIS can and can’t do, GIS data formats (vector, raster, imagery), and basic GIS functions, including analysis, map production/cartography, and data modeling. It presents a series of real-life case studies that illustrate the GIS concepts discussed in each chapter. These case studies supply readers with an understanding of the applicability of GIS to the full disaster management cycle. Providing equal treatment to each disaster management cycle phase, the book supplies disaster management practitioners and students with coverage of the latest developments in GIS for disaster management and emerging trends. It takes a learning-by-examples approach to help readers apply what they have learned from the examples and disaster management scenarios to their specific situations. The book illustrates how GIS technology can help disaster management professionals, public policy makers, and decision-makers at the town, county, state, federal, and international levels. Offering software-neutral best practices, this book is suitable for use in undergraduate- or graduate-level disaster management courses. Offering extensive career advice on GIS for disaster management from working professionals, the book also includes a GIS for disaster management research agenda and ideas for staying current in the field.
Author : Mehul Bhatt
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1614991227
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Situational Awareness for Assistive Technologies written by Mehul Bhatt and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book consists of research contributions dealing with the crucial notion of situationalawareness within assistive smart systems emerging as an overarching concept. An appliedcomputer science character has been retained, whilst bringing to the fore research projectswhere formal knowledge representation and reasoning techniques have been demonstrated to be applicableto areas within the broader field of ambient intelligence and smart environments.pIOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. pSome of the areas we publish
Author : Albert, Donald P.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466602597
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Geospatial Technologies and Advancing Geographic Decision Making: Issues and Trends written by Albert, Donald P. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The availability of geographically referenced data, the proliferation of geospatial technologies, and advances in spatial analytics have been a boom to applied geographers.Geospatial Technologies and Advancing Geographic Decision Making: Issues and Trends is a resource for private and public sector applied geographers engaged as geospatial technicians, analysts, scientists, and managers. It includes chapters that highlight the use of geospatial technologies to explore applied geographic issues and problems; studies from economic geography, urban geography, population geography, medical geography, political geography, geography of education, geography of crime, and transportation geography are considered.
