Overview
- 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)
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Front Matter
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Geoinformation Processing and Modelling
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Geo-information Services
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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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geographic Information and Cartography for Risk and Crisis Management
Book Subtitle: Towards Better Solutions
Editors: Milan Konecny, Sisi Zlatanova, Temenoujka L. Bandrova
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03442-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-03441-1Published: 25 March 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26293-7Published: 04 May 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-03442-8Published: 15 March 2010
Series ISSN: 1863-2246
Series E-ISSN: 1863-2351
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 429
Number of Illustrations: 162 b/w illustrations
Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Geophysics/Geodesy, Business and Management, general, Earth Sciences, general