Define common information management processes between agencies
- Define the information to be shared among agencies, and share a database (cartography, plans, lessons learned,...).
- Define the evaluation process and each agency role on it.
- Relevant procedures and terminology should be known by all responders.
- Share needs and limitations from different agencies (format, procedures, legal aspects…).
- Standardize the shared information between the Call Centres, Dispatch Centres and the Command Post.
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Best practices, doctrine, lessons learned
SecInCoRe (Secure Dynamic Cloud for Information, Communication and Resource Interoperability based on Pan-European Disaster Inventory)
The overall objective of SecInCoRe (Secure Dynamic Cloud for Information, Communication and Resource Interoperability based on Pan-European Disaster Inventory) is to identify data sets, processes, information systems and business models used by first resp...
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EPISECC project (Collaborative Project which will Establish a Pan-European Information Space to Enhance seCurity of Citizens)
The project EPISECC is aiming at developing a concept of a common “European Information Space”. This information space is dedicated to become the key element in a future integrated pan-European crisis and disaster response capacity. Besides the developmen...
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SAYSO project (Standardization of Situational Awareness sYstems to Strengthen Operations in civil protection)
situational awareness systems for multiple stakeholders: roadmap and reference architecture
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SECTOR project (Secure European Common Information Space for the Interoperability of First Responders and Police Authorities)
flexible Common Information Space concept that provides users with “peer-to-peer” type functionalities to dynamically set-up cross-agency collaborative platforms and information spaces, for information and resource sharing across agencies and across borde...
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Publication
Challenges and obstacles in sharing and coordinating information during multi-agency disaster response
Although various scholars have researched issues regarding disaster management, few have studied the sharing and coordinating of information during disasters. Not much empirical data is available in this field and there is sparse insight into the factors...
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Transforming Crisis Management
Governments are searching for ways to improve information sharing between autonomous agencies. During crises, information demand and Supply are often unbalanced, leading to situations in which relief workers are faced with incorrect, outdated or incomplet...
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Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and sensor web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management
'Wikification of GIS by the masses' is a phrase-term first coined by Kamel Boulos in 2005, two years earlier than Goodchild's term 'Volunteered Geographic Information'. Six years later (2005-2011), OpenStreetMap and Google Earth (...
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Reducing time in emergency medical service by improving information exchange among information systems
There are many organized units involved to perform an emergency rescue mission: dispatch center, mobile rescue units and emergency departments (ED) in hospitals. Communication among them is often not fully automated, and then personnel need to cope with u...
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The growing role of web-based geospatial technology in disaster response and support
This paper examines changes in disaster response and relief efforts and recent web-based geospatial technological developments through an evaluation of the experiences of the Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, of the Sichuan (2008) and Ha...
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Design and Function of the European Forest Fire Information System
The European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) is a modular decision support system that monitors forest fires at a continental scale. It delivers real-time, multi-dimensional data on forest fires to civil protection and fire fighting services in Eur...
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Knowledge-Based Service Architecture for Multi-risk Environmental Decision Support Applications
This paper describes our work to date on knowledge-based service architecture implementations for multi-risk environmental decision-support. The work described spans two research projects, SANY and TRIDEC, and covers application domains where very large,...
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Developing a Community of Practice to Learn, Share and Improve in Emergency Management
Natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires, and floods mostly hit unexpectedly without warning so it is important to be prepared having the expertise and knowledge readily available. However, despite the efforts made by organizations to identify lessons...
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Distributed collaborative situation-map making for disaster response
A situation map that shows the overview of a disaster situation serves as a valuable tool for disaster response teams. It helps them to orientate their location and to make disaster response decisions. It is, however, a complicated task to rapidly generat...
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Common frameworks of networking and information-sharing for advanced rescue systems
Networking and information-Sharing Task Force aims to develop common frameworks of robust networking and flexible information-sharing, which help to collect sensing data about damages and to control search-and-rescue devices like robots, sensor networks,...
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The Impacts of ICT Support on Information Distribution, Task Assignment for Gaining Teams' Situational Awareness in Search and Rescue Operations
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has changed the way we communicate and work. To study the effects of ICT for Information Distribution (ID) and Task Assignment (TA) for gaining Teams' Situational Awareness (TSA) across and within rescue...
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An Open GeoSpatial Standards-Enabled Google Earth Application to Support Crisis Management
Google Earth (GE) and related open geospatial technologies have changed both the accessibility of and audience for geospatial information dramatically. Through data rich applications with easy to use interfaces, these technologies bring personalized geosp...
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A case study of factor influencing role improvisation in crisis response teams
Common characteristics of crisis situations are ambiguous and unplanned for events. The need for improvised roles can therefore be an imperative factor for the success of an operation. The aim of this study is to deepen the understanding of the processes...
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Communication Platform for Disaster Response
The present research proposes an information platform for enhanced communication and information sharing in municipalities struck by disasters. Once a disaster happens, collecting and sharing information with and among citizens is the most important tasks...
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Mining the Disaster Hotspots - Situation-Adaptive Crowd Knowledge Extraction for Crisis Management
When disaster strikes, emergency professionals rapidly need to gain Situation Awareness (SAW) on the unfolding crisis situation, thus need to determine what has happened and where help and resources are needed. Nowadays, platforms like Twitter are used as...
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ENABLING INFORMATION GATHERING PATTERNS FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE WITH THE OPENKNOWLEDGE SYSTEM
Today's information systems must operate effectively within open and dynamic environments This challenge becomes a necessity for ells's management systems In emergency contexts, in fact, a large number of actors need to collaborate and coordinat...
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Information sharing and decision-making in multidisciplinary crisis management teams
Multidisciplinary crisis management teams consist of highly experienced professionals who combine their discipline-specific expertise in order to respond to critical situations characterized by high levels of uncertainty, complexity, and dynamism. Althoug...
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Data Mining Meets the Needs of Disaster Information Management
Techniques to efficiently discover, collect, organize, search, and disseminate real-time disaster information have become national priorities for efficient crisis management and disaster recovery tasks. We have developed techniques to facilitate informati...
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Technological innovation
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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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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