Geo-Information for Disaster Management (Hardcover, 2005)

Plenary Contributions.- Orchestra: Developing a Unified Open Architecture for Risk Management Applications.- Laser Scanning Applications on Disaster Management.- Big Brother or Eye in the Sky? Legal Aspects of Space-Based Geo-Information for Disaster Management.- ICT for Environmental Risk Management in the EU Research Context.- Airborne Passive Microwave Radiometry for Emergency Response.- Flood Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping in Vietnam.- Oral Contributions.- Geo Information Breaks through Sector Think.- Accurate On-Time Geo-Information for Disaster Management and Disaster Prevention by Precise Airborne Lidar Scanning.- Methodology for Making Geographic Information Relevant to Crisis Management.- The Value of Gi4DM for Transport & Water Management.- A Case Study in Multiagency GIS for Managing a Large-Scale Natural Disaster.- User-Oriented Provision of Geo-Information in Disaster Management: Potentials of Spatial Data Infrastructures considering Brandenburg/Germany as an Example.- PEGASUS: A Future Tool for Providing Near Real-Time High Resolution Data for Disaster Management.- Disaster Management: The Challenges for a National Geographic Information Provider.- CNES Research and Development and Available Software in the Framework of Space-Images Based Risk and Disaster Management.- A Decision Support System for Preventive Evacuation of People.- Poster contributions.- Considering Elevation Uncertainty for Managing Probable Disasters.- Emergency Preparedness System for the Lower Mekong River Basin: A Conceptual Approach Using Earth Observation and Geomatics.- Framing Spatial Decision-Making and Disaster Management in Time.- Disaster Monitoring Based on Portable Terminal for Real-Time RADARSAT-1 Data Acquisition.- User Requirements for a Mobile Disaster Documentation System.- Plenary Contributions.- Use of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Technologies in Disaster Management, especially Earthquakes.- The 26 December 2004 Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami Seen by Satellite Altimeters and GPS.- Near-Real Time Post-Disaster Damage Assessment with Airborne Oblique Video Data.- Abilities of Airborne and Space-Borne Sensors for Managing Natural Disasters.- The Use of GIS Technologies within the NOAA Climate Prediction Center's FEWS-NET Program.- Geo-Information for Urban Risk Assessment in Developing Countries: The SLARIM project.- Oral Contributions.- Mass Movement Monitoring Using Terrestrial Laser Scanner for Rock Fall Management.- Findings of the European Platform of New Technologies for Civil Protection: Current Practice and Challenges.- Geo-Information at the Belgian Federal Crisis Centre.- Real Time 3D Environment Simulation Applied to the Disaster Management Field: Our Experience.- Geo-Information for Disaster Management: Lessons from 9/11.- Soft Real-Time GIS for Disaster Monitoring.- Step-Wise Improvement of Precursor Services to an Integrated Crisis Information Center for Mountainous Areas.- Alsat-1: First Member of the DMC.- Experience and Perspective of Providing Satellite Based Crisis Information, Emergency Mapping & Disaster Monitoring Information to Decision Makers and Relief Workers.- Poster contributions.- Survey Methodologies for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Sites.- A New Geo-Information Architecture for Risk Management.- Software to Support a Specialized Bank of Electronic Maps.- Project OCTAGON: Special UAVs - Autonomous Airborne Platforms.- Disaster Prevention for Alpine Routes.- Step by Step Constitution of an Emergency Management Based Object Model and Database System on Linux for the I.T.U. Campus D.I.S..- Development of a Web-Based GIS Using SDI for Disaster Management.- Visual System for Metric 3D Data Gathering and Processing in Real Time.- Plenary Contributions.- Risk Assessment Using Spatial Prediction Model for Natural Disaster Preparedness.- Automatically Extracting Manmade Objects from Pan-Sharpened High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Using a Fuzzy Segmentation Method.-