The
Symposium will focus on several important aspects related to Disaster
Management namely:
- User
needs and requirements
- Technology
developments
- Data
collection and management
- Data
integration and knowledge discovery
- End-user
environments for interaction, visualisation and updating
- Positioning
and location-based communication
Within
these domains, prospective presenters are invited to submit papers on the
following topics:
User needs, requirements and technology developments:
- Analysis/experience/reports
of users or information providers dealing with Disaster Management (such
as police, fire brigade, topographic office, etc.)
- Demonstration
of new technology developments employed for Disaster Management
Data
collection and management:
- Mobile
mapping from land-based, airborne and spaceborne platforms
- Data
structures for real-time applications (geometry and topology, time,
multimedia)
- Frameworks
for multi-resolution and multi-topology management
- Frameworks
for data integrity and consistency applicable for field update
- Maintenance
of historical data
- Intelligent
navigation (switch between voice, text, image, graphics (2D, 3D))
- Generalisation
and compression algorithms
- 3D
navigation (buildings, tunnels, etc.)
- Data
standards for import/export - XML, GML
Data
integration and knowledge discovery:
- Real-time
data discovery and integration
- Context-aware
engines and agents for query and analysis with respect to the
front-end
- Knowledge
systems for browsing and analysis in distributed environments
- Geo-ontology
- Semantic-based
engines and translators for search and analysis
- 2D/3D
geocoding
End-user
environments:
- Graphics
user interfaces for mobile workers
- Information
perception in stress environments and/or on hand-held screens
- 3D
visualisation on mobile devices
- Interfaces
for mobile devices allowing data update
- AR
and VR monitoring of disaster development
- Messaging
(common-alert)
Positioning
and location-based communication:
- Innovative
positioning approaches (global/local, active/passive) ensuring positioning
"everywhere and always"
- 3D
indoor positioning and mapping
- Intelligent
switching between different communication networks and approaches for
positioning systems
- Portable,
distributed ad-hoc WLAN for disaster management
- Context-aware
user profiles monitoring status of mobile devices, emergency of
situations, etc.
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