Abstract
During the crisis management, several organizations coordinate their emergency work based not only on well-defined policies and procedures (product of careful preparation) but also on the outcomes of the decision-making process. Decision-making is a highly complicated process in crisis situations. Good support in decision-making when disaster occurs is of critical importance to react accurately, fast and effectively. Good decision-making helps to control damage, save lives and resources, and reduce unwanted consequences of a crisis. Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is increasingly considered a critical aspect of decision-making in disaster management. This paper presents our concept for an appropriate SDI (open-standard generic platform) assisting in administration, analysis of data to predict development of a crisis event and accordingly advise for changes of plans
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Environmental Science and Engineering (Subseries |
| Subtitle of host publication | Environmental Science) |
| Publisher | Springer Berlin / Heidelberg |
| Pages | 179-197 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Edition | 9783540792581 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2008 |
Publication series
| Name | Environmental Science and Engineering (Subseries: Environmental Science) |
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| Number | 9783540792581 |
| ISSN (Print) | 1863-5520 |
Funding
This paper presents concepts and ideas for the development of an SDI for disaster management. Next section presents the state-of-the-art in the development of SDI. Section 3 discusses the services that are being developed. Section 4 elaborates on graphic user interface used in the moment and demanded by the users. Section 5 concentrates on information management, and a data model for the management of in-situ information. Last section concludes on expected added value of the developments. This research is part of the project ‘Geographical Data Infrastructure for Disaster Management’ (www.gdi4dm.nl) funded by the Dutch Research and Development Programme ‘Space for geo-information’.