Facilitating situation assessment through gir with multi-scale open source web documents

In this paper, we present our preliminary work on a Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) system that utilizes loosely coupled web services and Google EarthTM (GE) to retrieve, extract, combine, and visualize situation information from multi-scale, open source web documents. Our intent with this work is to support situation assessment in the crisis management domain through tools that link and geographically contextualize information contained in text documents retrieved from multiple sources. In particular, our present work focuses on combining two data sources

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: GIR
• Authors: Brian M. Tomaszewski, Chi-Chun Pan, Prasenjit Mitra, Alan M. MacEachren
• Keywords: Crisis Management, GIR 2007, Google EarthTM, Information Management, Situation Assessment