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ISF
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Collaborative systems development in disaster relief: The impact of multi-level governance
Disaster management information systems for international humanitarian relief are developed in contexts involving local, national and inter-governmental organizations together with...
Edgar A. Maldonado, Carleen F. Maitland, Andrea Ho...
MVA
1990
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13 years 7 months ago
Automatic Fire Detection by Changing Region Analysis Based on Geographic Information
This paper proposes a new method for automatic fire detection in cities using image processing techniques. Images are obtained successively at regular intervals from monochrome TV...
Hideo Numagami, Akio Okazaki
AISS
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
A Geospatial Service Approach towards the Development of a Debris Flow Early-warning Systems
Disaster prevention and management is a complicated task that often involves a tremendous volume of heterogeneous data from various resources. With its dynamic and distributed nat...
Min-Lang Huang, Jung-Hong Hong
USENIX
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Power-aware Remote Replication for Enterprise-level Disaster Recovery Systems
Electric energy consumed in data centers is rapidly growing. Power-aware IT, recently called `green IT', is widely recognized as a significant challenge. Disk storage is a no...
Kazuo Goda, Masaru Kitsuregawa
EUROSSC
2007
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
ESCAPE - An Adaptive Framework for Managing and Providing Context Information in Emergency Situations
Supporting adaptive processes in tackling emergency situations, such as disasters, is a key issue for any emergency management system. In such situations, various teams are deploye...
Hong Linh Truong, Lukasz Juszczyk, Atif Manzoor, S...