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GI for Disaster Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

GI for Disaster Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-01-20
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  • Publisher: MDPI

Each year, disasters such as storms, floods, fires, volcanoes, earthquakes, and epidemics cause thousands of casualties and tremendous damage to property around the world, displacing tens of thousands of people from their homes and destroying their livelihoods. The majority of these casualties and property loss could be prevented if better information were available regarding the onset and course of such disasters. Several remote sensing technologies, such as meteorological and Earth observation satellites, communication satellites, and satellite-based positioning, supported by geoinformation technologies, offer the potential to contribute to improved prediction and monitoring of potential h...

Intelligent Systems for Crisis Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Intelligent Systems for Crisis Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-02-06
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  • Publisher: Springer

In the past several years, there have been significant technological advances in the field of crisis response. However, many aspects concerning the efficient collection and integration of geo-information, applied semantics and situation awareness for disaster management remain open. Improving crisis response systems and making them intelligent requires extensive collaboration between emergency responders, disaster managers, system designers and researchers alike. To facilitate this process, the Gi4DM (GeoInformation for Disaster Management) conferences have been held regularly since 2005. The events are coordinated by the Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JB GIS) and ICSU GeoUnions. This book presents the outcomes of the Gi4DM 2018 conference, which was organised by the ISPRS-URSI Joint Working Group ICWG III/IVa: Disaster Assessment, Monitoring and Management and held in Istanbul, Turkey on 18-21 March 2018. It includes 12 scientific papers focusing on the intelligent use of geo-information, semantics and situation awareness.

Aiding Decisions with Multiple Criteria
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 551

Aiding Decisions with Multiple Criteria

Aiding Decisions With Multiple Criteria: Essays in Honor of Bernard Roy is organized around two broad themes: Graph Theory with path-breaking contributions on the theory of flows in networks and project scheduling, Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding with the invention of the family of ELECTRE methods and methodological contribution to decision-aiding which lead to the creation of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). Professor Bernard Roy has had considerable influence on the development of these two broad areas. £/LIST£ Part one contains papers by Jacques Lesourne, and Dominique de Werra & Pierre Hansen related to the early career of Bernard Roy when he developed many new techniques and...

Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction

This volume constitutes the refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2021, in Morioka, Japan, in October 2021. The 11 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The papers focus on various aspects and challenges of coping with disaster risk reduction. The papers are categorized in the following topical subheadings: Information Analysis for Situation Awareness; Evacuation and Rescue; COVID-19 Issues; and IT Use for Risk and Disaster Management.

Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-04-17
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second IFIP TC 5 DCITDRR International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2017, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in October 2017. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers focus on various aspects and challenges of coping with disaster risk reduction. The main topics include areas such as natural disasters, big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, mobile computing, emergency management, disaster information processing, and disaster risk assessment and management.

Wireless Public Safety Networks Volume 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Wireless Public Safety Networks Volume 1

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-11-17
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

Wireless Public Safety Networks, Volume One: Overview and Challenges presents the latest advances in the wireless Public Safety Networks (PSNs) field, the networks established by authorities to either prepare the population for an eminent catastrophe, or as support during crisis and normalization phases. Maintaining communication capabilities in a disaster scenario is crucial for avoiding loss of lives and damages to property. Wireless Public Safety Networks examines past communication failures that have directly contributed to the loss of lives. This book will give readers a broad view of the PSNs field, analyzing the benefits PSNs may bring to society, the main challenges related to the establishment and maintenance of these networks, the latest advancements in the field, and future perspectives. - Discusses the ever changing requirements and impact of PSNs in mission critical scenarios - Analyzes the evolving methods required to meet the growing demand of capable public safety networks - Covers lessons learned and advances made to wireless communications to help prevent loss of lives and poor practice disaster management

Télécoms pour l'ingénierie du risque
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 250

Télécoms pour l'ingénierie du risque

Nous vivons dans un monde où le risque est continuellement présent. Aux risques de catastrophes naturelles, s'ajoutent les risques générés par l'activité humaine et les risques de modification et de falsification d'informations liées aux nouvelles technologies. Dans ce contexte, les sciences et techniques radio ont un rôle décisif. Lors d'événements catastrophiques, il est extrêmement utile de disposer de systèmes de communication sûrs et d'observation à distance (télédétection) permettant d'évaluer les évolutions temporelles et spatiales des phénomènes catastrophiques et de leurs conséquences. Un système de communication fiable est non seulement indispensable pour dÃ...

Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-11-28
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First IFIP TC 5 DCDRR International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2016, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in November 2016. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers focus on various aspects and challenges of coping with disaster risk reduction. The main topics include areas such as big data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, natural disasters, mobile computing, emergency management, disaster information processing, disaster risk assessment and management, and disaster management simulation.

Historical Dictionary of the International Monetary Fund
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Historical Dictionary of the International Monetary Fund

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The entries in the Dictionary describe the economic and financial concepts employed by the Fund, its operational policies and facilities, its departmental structure and staffing, and its decision making authority, including the system of weighted voting by member countries. This volume fully updates and expands the 1993 edition, while maintaining the author's commitment to thoroughness and accuracy.

Toward a New Social Contract
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 366

Toward a New Social Contract

The growing economic fissures in the societies of Europe and Central Asia between generations, between insiders and outsiders in the labor market, between rural and urban communities, and between the super-rich and everyone else, are threatening the sustainability of the social contract. The institutions that helped achieving a remarkable degree of equity and prosperity over the course of several decades now face considerable difficulties in coping with the challenges presented by these emerging forms of inequality. Public surveys reveal rising concerns over inequality of opportunity, while electoral results show a marked shift to populist parties that offer radical solutions to voters dissa...