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Infrastructure management information system framework requirements for disasters
Date Issued
2007-03
Date Available
2010-08-16T13:48:58Z
Abstract
A three-tiered, enterprise, GIS architecture offers a robust, efficient, and secure platform to potentially revolutionize disaster management by enabling support of all of the phases of governmental activity that must occur before, during, and after a disaster. Presently, both publicly and privately initiated, computer-based systems designed for disaster management cannot meet the real-time data access and analysis needs at crucial stages, especially those occurring
during an actual disaster. Impediments are reflective of the proprietary, standalone, and segregated nature of current systems. This paper proposes an integrated, infrastructure management information system as a reliable and effective alternative. Issues related to sharing data, customizing applications, supporting multiple data formats, querying visually, facilitating ubiquitous computing, and upgrading are all addressed. Achieving maximum flexibility and capacity in a disaster management system relies upon recent advances in the following areas: (1) standardized data specifications, (2) middleware services, and (3) web-enabled, distributed computing. Key resources in designing and implementing such an arrangement are prototyped in a system that was initially designed for addressing disaster management of urban explosions. The critical details of that system are presented herein.
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Not applicable
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)
Journal
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
Volume
21
Issue
2
Start Page
90
End Page
101
Copyright (Published Version)
2007 ASCE
Subject – LCSH
Emergency management--Geographic information systems
Information resources management
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0887-3801
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