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Geo-information for Disaster Management

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Editors:
  1. Peter Oosterom

    1. OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies, Section GIS Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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  2. Siyka Zlatanova

    1. OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies, Section GIS Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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  3. Elfriede M. Fendel

    1. OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies, Section GIS Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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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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Table of contents (98 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Plenary Contributions

    1. Orchestra: Developing a Unified Open Architecture for Risk Management Applications

      • Alessandro Annoni, Lars Bernard, John Douglas, Joseph Greenwood, Irene Laiz, Michael Lloyd et al.
      Pages 1-17

    2. Laser Scanning Applications on Disaster Management

      • Andrea Biasion, Leandro Bornaz, Fulvio Rinaudo
      Pages 19-33

    3. Big Brother or Eye in the Sky? Legal Aspects of Space-Based Geo-Information for Disaster Management

      • Frans G. von der Dunk
      Pages 35-50

    4. ICT for Environmental Risk Management in the EU Research Context

      • Karen Fabbri, Guy Weets
      Pages 51-56

    5. Airborne Passive Microwave Radiometry for Emergency Response

      • Roland B. Haarbrink, Anatoly M. Shutko
      Pages 57-66

    6. Flood Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping in Vietnam

      • Hoang Minh Hien, Tran Nhu Trung, Wim Looijen, Kees Hulsbergen
      Pages 67-83

  3. Oral Contributions

    1. Geo Information Breaks through Sector Think

      • Stefan Diehl, Jene van der Heide
      Pages 85-108

    2. Accurate On-Time Geo-Information for Disaster Management and Disaster Prevention by Precise Airborne Lidar Scanning

      • Steffen Firchau, Alexander Wiechert
      Pages 109-119

    3. Methodology for Making Geographic Information Relevant to Crisis Management

      • Anders Grönlund
      Pages 121-128

    4. The Value of Gi4DM for Transport & Water Management

      • Michel J.M. Grothe, Harry C. Landa, John G.M. Steenbruggen
      Pages 129-153

    5. A Case Study in Multiagency GIS for Managing a Large-Scale Natural Disaster

      • Russ Johnson
      Pages 155-170

    6. User-Oriented Provision of Geo-Information in Disaster Management: Potentials of Spatial Data Infrastructures considering Brandenburg/Germany as an Example

      • Petra Köhler
      Pages 171-179

    7. PEGASUS: A Future Tool for Providing Near Real-Time High Resolution Data for Disaster Management

      • Nicolas Lewyckyj, Jurgen Everaerts
      Pages 181-189

    8. Disaster Management: The Challenges for a National Geographic Information Provider

      • Chris Parker, Mark Stileman
      Pages 191-214

    9. CNES Research and Development and Available Software in the Framework of Space-Images Based Risk and Disaster Management

      • Hélène Vadon, Jordi Inglada
      Pages 215-228

    10. A Decision Support System for Preventive Evacuation of People

      • Kasper van Zuilekom, Martin van Maarseveen, Marcel van der Doef
      Pages 229-253

  4. Poster contributions

    1. Considering Elevation Uncertainty for Managing Probable Disasters

      • Georgios A. Achilleos
      Pages 255-267

    2. Emergency Preparedness System for the Lower Mekong River Basin: A Conceptual Approach Using Earth Observation and Geomatics

      • Ferdinand Bonn, Guy Aubé, Claire Müller-Poitevien, Goze Bénié
      Pages 269-280

    3. Framing Spatial Decision-Making and Disaster Management in Time

      • Bernard Cornélis
      Pages 281-293
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Reviews

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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies, Section GIS Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Peter Oosterom, Siyka Zlatanova, Elfriede M. Fendel

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