Information cycle

 

  • Compile and validate dynamic data flows. Focus on having a big-picture view, on a timely verification of too-much information, on distinguishing noise from useful information, and on identifying targets and sources of key information.
  • Provide clear instructions to potential victims.
  • Do specific communications with the participation of responders, stakeholders, politicians and media.
  • Improve the ability to extract useful information from crowd-sourcing, from the field and from other sources (distinguish useful information from noise).
  • Create interoperable sharing platforms to circulate common information and to establish a common framework for the decision-making.

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Best practices, doctrine, lessons learned

Publication

Earthquake induced crises: game tree approached risk communication and lessons learnt

Earthquake risk communication, which was extremely poor in historical times, has improved in an extraordinary way during the last decade. EEW and TW systems are, or are in the process of being, established, and platforms operated by seismological centres...

E-LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES IN SUPPORT OF CRISIS MANAGEMENT

Efforts are currently needed in the optimization of crisis management, as instability can occur in all areas. As it is the Prime Minister's attribute crisis management is an area of responsibility of the Government and this enables extensive optimiza...

Education in Disaster Management and Emergencies

Objective: Unremitting natural disasters, deliberate threats, pandemics, and humanitarian suffering resulting from conflict situations necessitate swift and effective response paradigms. The European Union's (EU) increasing visibility as a disaster r...

SIN

Fire-fighters work under extremely stressful conditions where even their own lives and the lives of potential victims can be at stake. It is clear that there is no room for error and that extensive training is crucial in this regard. In Slovenia the great...

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...

Specialisation and training for fire-fighters driving heavy rescue vehicles

This work was undertaken in France at the request of a local fire and rescue school in order to conduct an analysis of driving two types of heavy rescue vehicle with a view to improving training. This study took place in a context of specialisation: the d...

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...

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 (...

SOCIAL MEDIA IN CRISIS SITUATIONS

Adequate response to wide-spread crises is becoming a global necessity and a social responsibility in view of the seemingly growing number of regional disasters endangering a growing number of people and even our society. Adequate response is highly depen...

Identification of local information items needed during search and rescue following an earthquake

Purpose - This paper aims to identify the local information items that are needed by search and rescue (S&R) teams for an effective disaster response following an earthquake. Currently, it is a challenging and time-consuming task to collect most of th...

Dynamic and Context Aware Reporting of Observations from the Field for Situation Assessment in Crisis Situation

An efficient process for gathering data from the field is crucial in managing crisis scenarios. In this paper we present a concept system for crisis management with focus on how observations from the field are reported using hand held devices and integrat...

Critical Message Scheduling for Disaster Response and Recovery Phases

During disaster especially response and recovery phases, limited bandwidths and high rate of incoming messages make communication network vital resources. Allocating bandwidth to send critical messages such as well-being statuses, assistant activities etc...

Big data analytics for disaster response and recovery through sentiment analysis

Big data created by social media and mobile networks provide an exceptional opportunity to mine valuable insights from them. This information is harnessed by business entities to measure the level of customer satisfaction but its application in disaster r...

Challenges to effective crisis management

Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify the major challenges to coordination between emergency department (ED) teams and emergency medical services (EMS) teams. Design: We conducted a series of focus groups involving both ED and EMS team membe...

Socializing in emergencies-A review of the use of social media in emergency situations

Social media tools are integrated in most parts of our daily lives, as citizens, netizens, researchers or emergency responders. Lessons learnt from disasters and emergencies that occurred globally in the last few years have shown that social media tools m...

Crisis Communication in Libraries

Among the many roles librarians embrace, managing outreach, marketing, and communication are increasingly important. This is especially true during a natural disaster or other crisis situation that might occur in a library. Media and public relations are...

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...

Fire Regulation Compliance through Alternative Solutions

Deemed-to-Satisfy Provisions of the National Construction Code (NCC) do not allow some building elements to be constructed from combustible materials, such as timber, or they nominate the material that can be used, such as concrete or masonry. SOurce: ht...

Technological innovation

Real time earthquake shaking maps for Greece

The Seismological Laboratory of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (SL-NKUA, http://www.geophysics.geol.uoa.gr/) monitors on real-time basis the seismicity in Greece, based on the recordings of the Hellenic Unified Seismological Network (H...

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...

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

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...

CRISIS (CRitical Incident management training System using an Interactive Simulation environment)

next generation, advanced video game style interactive simulation training system developed to help emergency service personnel and commanders prepare for crisis scenarios such as train and plane crashes, and terrorist attacks

L4S (Learning 4 Security)

"L4S project exploits the reality and the needs of organizations to help their managers and personnel in order to develop key skills and competencies in crisis management area through an innovative, highly involving, effective and easy deployable lif...

E2mC Project

E2mC (Evolution of Emergency Copernicus services) project aims at demonstrating the technical and operational feasibility of the integration of social media analysis and crowd-sourced information within both the Mapping and Early Warning Components of Cop...

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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