Distribute decision-making (TOP CHALLENGE)
- Identify roles and capabilities from the different agencies and stakeholders in the emergency.
- Build a shared understanding concerning the scenario and strategy across responders to synchronize simultaneous decision-making. Manage complex information focusing on the multiple levels of decision-making.
- Distributed decision-making based on assigned missions, on common objectives and a shared understanding on situation.
- Management by objectives, giving flexibility and autonomy in decision making.
- Lower decision making.
- Identify points of coordination in the different zones: from local (hot zone, warm zone ...) to regional and to national. Establish different levels of liaison officers, translators, communication; entrance points; and infrastructures as needed. (TOP CHALLENGE scored 6/12 among our 12 best challenges)
- Establish the level of command, coordination and support to intervention and identify the standards for information exchange
- Be aware and know the cultural diversity and your role in the situation
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HEIMDALL: enhance cooperation and inter-organisational coordination
Solutions to enhance cooperation and inter-organisational coordination, based on technologies already existing or currently under development
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WUIWATCH (Wildland - Urban Interface Forest Fire Risk Observatory and Interest Group in Europe )
The objective is to create and consolidate a European Observatory on prevention and defence against forest fires affecting urban areas and communities in the so called Wildland-Urban interfaces (WUI) in Europe by assembling a permanent forum and a special...
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Preparing for complex interdependent risks
The uncertainty posed by natural and human-made disasters arises from both known risks and a range of unforeseeable risks, some of which may be novel, not having been observed before. These interconnected risks may evolve over short periods of time and ma...
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Collaboration Capabilities for Crisis Management
When a crisis such as 9/11 occurs, it requires coordination and collaboration by a number of government agencies - as well as the private sector - with tightly choreographed activities from many organizations in multiple locations. Although there are acce...
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Collaboration Exercises
This article aims to study whether exercises contribute to learning that can be useful in actual emergency work. It reports the findings of a study about professional emergency personnel's perceptions of the impact of collaboration exercises. Surveys...
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CRISIS MANAGEMENT EVALUATION
Communication and inter-organizational coordination in crisis management are of uttermost important for all processes and can lead to fast and effective averting or ending of a crisis situation. In this paper, a real world incident of a fire in the Amster...
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Site management of health issues in the 2001 World Trade Center disaster
The terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center led to the greatest loss of life from a criminal incident in the history of the United States. There were 2,801 persons killed or missing at the disaster site, including 147 dead on two hijacked aircraft...
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Building a Birds Eye View
Command and control environments ranging from transport control rooms to disaster response have long been of interest to HCI and CSCW as rich sites of interactive technology use embedded in work practice. Drawing on our engagement with disaster response t...
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Improving crisis management in the imperfect world of foreign electoral assistance
This article's primary focus is on improving techniques of crisis management of electoral assistance. In so doing it intends to contribute to a more systematic sharing of information about lessons learned and possible responses to the pressure of pro...
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SUSTAINING NETWORKS IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT A Study of Counties in the United States
The increasing scope and severity of disasters has led to the wide adoption of collaborative practices through networks in the field of emergency management. Networks are most effective when they can be sustained over time. This study develops a model of...
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Regional coordination in medical emergencies and major incidents; plan, execute and teach
Background: Although disasters and major incidents are difficult to predict, the results can be mitigated through planning, training and coordinated management of available resources. Following a fire in a disco in Gothenburg, causing 63 deaths and over 2...
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Multidisciplinary coordination of on-scene command teams in virtual emergency exercises
This paper presents the design and the results of a comparative study of multidisciplinary on-scene command teams at work in virtual emergency training exercises. The principal goals of the study were to understand how "on-scene command teams" c...
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The Common Operational Picture as Collective Sensemaking
The common operational picture is used to overcome coordination and information management problems during emergency response. Increasingly, this approach is incorporated in more advanced information systems. This is rooted in an information warehouse...
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Technological innovation
Raybird 3 Fixed-wing Drone / Autonomous Swarm-Unmanned Aerial System
Please see attached brochure for technical spec. We have tailored our system to suit your industry and works in tandem with the First Responders. We can pick up hotspot as small as 2m by 1 from 800 m above the ground. The drone is fully autonomous. The...
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Automatic Post Earthquake Damage Assessment
The algorithm is under development in its early stages. Image acquisition and data sharing through drone is nowadays a usual task. The aim of our project is to acquire pre- and post-earthquake images of an area, to compare them and evaluate the damage gra...
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Automatic FIRE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT
Estimate as fast as possible areas under fire danger. Identify possible routes of evacuation. Monitor for possible future direction of the fire. Keywords: GIS, Drones, wildland fires, landscape fires, image analysis, machine learning, deep learning
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ENGAGE IMS/CAD (Incident Management & Computer Aided Dispatch)
ENGAGE is designed for operational use by professional organizations employing mobile resources, such as Police, Fire Departments, Rescue Services, Emergency services, Security Departments etc. ENGAGE is designed to support multi-Agency deployments permit...
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G-Sense - Earthquake Rapid Damage Assessment for Buildings
Satways Ltd recently developed the G-sense system comprising of a network of sensor nodes installed in different floors of a building measuring acceleration. The nodes include a low noise MEMS tri-axial accelerometer, a 16bit ADC, a power control (UPS) un...
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AIOSAT - Autonomous Indoor and Outdoor Safety Tracking System
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vieWTerra Evolution
vieWTerra Evolution, vieWTerra Mobile and vieWTerra Base form a combined “GIS & Simulation” suite of products allowing responders to rapidly build a virtual 4D representation (3D synthetic environment+ Time dimension) of any potential Crisis area on E...
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Disaster Alleviation in Real Time (DART)
DART is developed from systems designed for army use. It is nodal and requires no central server. It uses fixed messages (Data Links ) to send all data. It is designed to be graphical and require no computer knowledge by the operator. It can use any...
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SARUAV - software for AI-based aerial photo analysis in SAR missions / missing person mobility simulation / SAR mission coordination
The software has 3 main functions: 1) missing person mobility simulation: based on initial information (time and location of Point Last Seen, Intended Destination, Travel Time, local SAR statistics) the program calculates how far a person could have trav...
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TOP 12 challenges
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