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Geographic information and cartography for risk and crises management : towards better solutions

"Cartography and geographic information (GI) are remarkably appropriate for the requirements of early warning (EW) and crisis management (CM). The use of geospatial technology has increased tremendously in the last years. ICT has changed from just using maps created in advance, to new approaches, allowing individuals (decision-makers) to use cartography interactively, on the basis of individual user's requirements. The new generation of cartographic visualizations based on standardisation, formal modelling, use of sensors, semantics and ontology, allows for the better adaptation of information to the needs of the users. In order to design a new framework in pre-disaster and disaster management safety/security/privacy aspects of institutions and citizens need to be considered. All this can only be achieved by demonstrating new research achievements, sharing best practices (e.g. in the health area) and working towards the wider acceptance of geospatial technology in society, with the help of education and media. This book will outline research frontiers and applications of cartography and GI in EW and CM and document their roles and potentials in wider processes going on in information/knowledge-based societies."--Publisher description
Print Book, English, 2010
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2010
Aufsatzsammlung
xxii, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
9783642034411, 9783642034428, 3642034411, 364203442X
428029281
pt. I. Geoinformation Processing and Modelling
Earth Observations and Dynamic Mapping : Key Assets for Risk Management / Alessandro Annoni, Massimo Craglia, Ad de Roo, Jesus San-Miguel
Spatial Information for Disaster Management Using Examples from Istanbul / Orhan Altan, Gerhard Kemper
Rapid Population Maps for Crisis Response / Gunter Zeug, Olaf Kranz, Sandra Eckert
Modeling of Spatiotemporal Distribution of Urban Population at High Resolution : Value for Risk Assessment and Emergency Management / Sérgio Freire
A Framework for Defining a 3D Model in Support of Risk Management / Serkan Kemec, Sisi Zlatanova, H. Sebnem Duzgun
DB4GeO, a 3D/4D Geodatabase and Its Application for the Analysis of Landslides / Martin Breunig, Björn Schilberg, Andreas Thomsen, Paul Vincent Kuper, Markus Jahn, Edgar Butwilowski
GIS Procedure to Forecast and Manage Woodland Fires / Antonio Condorelli, Giuseppe Mussumeci
Cartographic Support of Fire Engine Navigation to Operation Site / Vít Voženílek, Lenka Zajíčková
Strategies for the Automatic Extraction of Water Bodies from TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X data / Thomas Hahmann, André Twele, Sandro Martinis, Manfred Buchroithner
GIS Techniques in the Evaluation of Pipeline Networks Seismic Hazard / Michele Maugeri, Ernesto Motta, Giuseppe Mussumeci, Erminia Raciti
Towards a Quick Damage Detection System Based on Grid Computing / Tuong-Thuy Vu, Masashi Matsuoka
GMES Services for Conflict Prevention and Mitigation : Supporting the DG RELEX in Mission Planning / Olaf Kranz, Stefan Lang, Dirk Tiede, Gunter Zeug, Thomas Kemper, Mathilde Caspard, Stephen Clandillon
pt. II. Geo-information Services
Mobilizing Multi-source Geospatial Information for EW and EM : Maximize Sharing, Enhance Flexibility, and Minimize Costs / Mark Reichardt, Carl Reed
Metainformation in Crisis Management Architecture : Theoretical Approaches, INSPIRE Solution / Tomáš Řezník
Collaborative Post-disaster Damage Mapping via Geo Web Services / Laban Maiyo, Norman Kerle, Barend Köbben
Decision Support for Tsunami Early Warning in Indonesia : The Role of OGC Standards / Ulrich Raape, Sven Tessmann, Andreas Wytzisk, Tilmann Steinmetz, Monika Wnuk, Manuel Hunold, Christian Strobl, Christoph Stasch, Alexander C. Walkowski, Oliver Meyer, Simon Jirka
A Service-Based Architecture for the Interoperability of Heterogeneous Sensor data : A Case Study on Early Warning / Valentina Casola, Luca D'Onofrio, Giusy Di Lorenzo, Nicola Mazzocca
Development of a Coupled Geoinformation and Simulation System for Early Warning / Eva Ortlieb, Wolfgang Reinhardt, Franz-Xaver Trauner
Multi-criteria Evaluation for Emergency Management in Spatial Data Infrastructures / Matthias Müller, Lars Bernard, Rico Vogel
Field Tracking Tool : A Collaborative Framework from the Field to the Decision Makers / Alessandro Annunziato, Simone Gadenz, Daniele A. Galliano, Roberto Guana, Francisco Igualada
Practical Experience with a Contextual Map Service / Jiří Kozel, Radim Štampach
pt. III. Advanced Cartographic Visualisation
Cartography and Geoinformation for Early Warning and Emergency Management / David Fraser
Process Support and Adaptive Geovisualisation in Emergency Management / Petr Kubíček, Tomáš Ludík, Eva Mulíčková, Jaroslav Ráček, Gustav Šafr
Perceptions of Various Cartographic Representations Under Specific Conditions / Zdeněk Stachoň, Čeněk Šašinka, Václav Talhofer
Research of Students' Cartographical Knowledge in Early Warning and Crisis Management / Temenoujka Bandrova, Milan Konecny, Monika Rusnakova
Geovisual Analytics Tools for Communicating Emergency and Early Warning / Mikael Jern, Monica Brezzi, Patrik Lundblad
Kernel Density Estimations for Visual Analysis of Emergency Response Data / Jukka M. Krisp, Olga Špatenková
Monitoring and Comparing : A Cartographic Web Application for Real-time Visualization of Hydrological Data / Christophe Lienert, Melanie Kunz, Rolf Weingartner, Lorenz Hurni
Designing Map Keys for Crisis Management on the Regional Operational and Informational Centre Level : Monitoring Transport of Dangerous Goods via Contextual Visualisation / Lucie Friedmannová