Geo-information for Disaster Management

Peter Van Oosterom

ISBN 10: 3540249885 / ISBN 13: 9783540249887

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Geo-information for Disaster Management
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540249885
• ISBN 13: 9783540249887
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 160H x 91D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 91 millimeters depth
• Weight: 2535 grams

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Synopsis

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.

Review

From the reviews of the first edition:

"This book provides a welcome addition to the literature on geo-information for disaster management. ... previous literature on this topic has been scattered ... . It is therefore exceedingly useful to have a consolidated range of papers in one publication. ... students, researchers, developers and users of geo-information in the disaster-management field will find this book an excellent resource. It clearly demonstrates how varied this field is ... . the book covers a large range of both natural and man-made disaster-management issues." (Catherine Lowe, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Vol. 33, 2006)