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Geographic Information and Cartography for Risk and Crisis Management

Towards Better Solutions

  • Outlines 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
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (LNGC)

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Geoinformation Processing and Modelling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Earth Observations and Dynamic Mapping: Key Assets for Risk Management

      • Alessandro Annoni, Massimo Craglia, Ad de Roo, Jesus San-Miguel
      Pages 3-21
    3. Rapid Population Maps for Crisis Response

      • Gunter Zeug, Olaf Kranz, Sandra Eckert
      Pages 39-51
    4. A Framework for Defining a 3D Model in Support of Risk Management

      • Serkan Kemec, Sisi Zlatanova, H. Sebnem Duzgun
      Pages 69-82
    5. 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
      Pages 83-101
    6. GIS Procedure to Forecast and Manage Woodland Fires

      • Antonio Condorelli, Giuseppe Mussumeci
      Pages 103-111
    7. Cartographic Support of Fire Engine Navigation to Operation Site

      • Vít Voženílek, Lenka Zajíčková
      Pages 113-128
    8. Strategies for the Automatic Extraction of Water Bodies from TerraSAR-X / TanDEM-X data

      • Thomas Hahmann, André Twele, Sandro Martinis, Manfred Buchroithner
      Pages 129-141
    9. GIS Techniques in the Evaluation of Pipeline Networks Seismic Hazard

      • Michele Maugeri, Ernesto Motta, Giuseppe Mussumeci, Erminia Raciti
      Pages 143-154
    10. Towards a Quick Damage Detection System Based on Grid Computing

      • Tuong-Thuy Vu, Masashi Matsuoka
      Pages 155-169
    11. 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 et al.
      Pages 171-188
  3. Geo-information Services

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
    2. Collaborative Post-disaster Damage Mapping via Geo Web Services

      • Laban Maiyo, Norman Kerle, Barend Köbben
      Pages 221-231
    3. 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 et al.
      Pages 233-247
    4. 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
      Pages 249-263

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Milan Konecny

  • OTB Research Inst. Housing,, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

    Sisi Zlatanova

  • Engineering & Geodesy, University of Architecture Civil, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Temenoujka L. Bandrova

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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