Geographic information and cartography for risk and crises management : towards better solutions

Contributors.......................................................................................................... ix Introduction ....................................................................................................... xvii The Editors Part I: Geoinformation Processing and Modelling ............................................... 1 Earth Observations and Dynamic Mapping: Key Assets for Risk Management ............................................................................................ 3 Alessandro Annoni, Massimo Craglia, Ad de Roo and Jesus San-Miguel Spatial Information for Disaster Management Using Examples from Istanbul .................................................................................................. 23 Orhan Altan and Gerhard Kemper Rapid Population Maps for Crisis Response ..................................................... 39 Gunter Zeug, Olaf Kranz and Sandra Eckert Modeling of Spatiotemporal Distribution of Urban Population at High Resolution – Value for Risk Assessment and Emergency Management ................................................................................................... 53 Sérgio Freire A Framework for Defining a 3D Model in Support of Risk Management ..... 69 Serkan Kemec, Sisi Zlatanova and H. Sebnem Duzgun DB4GeO, a 3D/4D Geodatabase and Its Application for the Analysis of Landslides ................................................................................................... 83 Martin Breunig, Björn Schilberg, Andreas Thomsen, Paul Vincent Kuper, Markus Jahn and Edgar Butwilowski GIS Procedure to Forecast and Manage Woodland Fires ............................. 103 Antonio Condorelli and Giuseppe Mussumeci Cartographic Support of Fire Engine Navigation to Operation Site ............ 113 Vít Voženílek and Lenka Zajíčková vi Table of Contents Strategies for the Automatic Extraction of Water Bodies from TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X data ................................................................... 129 Thomas Hahmann, André Twele, Sandro Martinis and Manfred Buchroithner GIS Techniques in the Evaluation of Pipeline Networks Seismic Hazard ... 143 Michele Maugeri, Ernesto Motta, Giuseppe Mussumeci and Erminia Raciti Towards a Quick Damage Detection System Based on Grid Computing ..... 155 Tuong-Thuy Vu and Masashi Matsuoka GMES Services for Conflict Prevention and Mitigation: Supporting the DG RELEX in Mission Planning ......................................................... 171 Olaf Kranz, Stefan Lang, Dirk Tiede, Gunter Zeug, Thomas Kemper, Mathilde Caspard and Stephen Clandillon Part II: Geo-information Services ..................................................................... 189 Mobilizing Multi-source Geospatial Information for EW and EM: Maximize Sharing, Enhance Flexibility, and Minimize Costs ................. 191 Mark Reichardt and Carl Reed Metainformation in Crisis Management Architecture – Theoretical Approaches, INSPIRE Solution .................................................................. 209 Tomáš Řezník Collaborative Post-disaster Damage Mapping via Geo Web Services .......... 221 Laban Maiyo, Norman Kerle and Barend Köbben Decision Support for Tsunami Early Warning in Indonesia: The Role of OGC Standards ....................................................................... 233 Ulrich Raape, Sven Teßmann, Andreas Wytzisk, Tilmann Steinmetz, Monika Wnuk, Manuel Hunold, Christian Strobl, Christoph Stasch, Alexander C. Walkowski, Oliver Meyer and Simon Jirka A Service-Based Architecture for the Interoperability of Heterogeneous Sensor data: A Case Study on Early Warning .......................................... 249 Valentina Casola, Luca D’Onofrio, Giusy Di Lorenzo and Nicola Mazzocca Development of a Coupled Geoinformation and Simulation System for Early Warning ....................................................................................... 265 Eva Ortlieb, Wolfgang Reinhardt and Franz-Xaver Trauner Multi-criteria Evaluation for Emergency Management in Spatial Data Infrastructures ............................................................................................. 273 Matthias Müller, Lars Bernard and Rico Vogel Field Tracking Tool: A Collaborative Framework from the Field to the Decision Makers ................................................................................ 287 Alessandro Annunziato, Simone Gadenz, Daniele A. Galliano, Roberto Guana and Francisco Igualada Practical Experience with a Contextual Map Service .................................... 305 Jiří Kozel and Radim Štampach Part III: Advanced Cartographic Visualisation ................................................ 317 Cartography and Geoinformation for Early Warning and Emergency Management ................................................................................................. 319 David Fraser Process Support and Adaptive Geovisualisation in Emergency Management ................................................................................................. 335 Petr Kubíček, Tomáš Ludík, Eva Mulíčková, Jaroslav Ráček, and Gustav Šafr Research of Students’ Cartographical Knowledge in Early Warning and Crisis Management ............................................................................... 361 Geovisual Analytics Tools for Communicating Emergency and Early Warning ........................................................................................................ 379 Mikael Jern , Monica Brezzi and Patrik Lundblad Kernel Density Estimations for Visual Analysis of Emergency Response Data .............................................................................................. 395 Jukka M. Krisp and Olga Špatenková Temenoujka Bandrova, Milan Konecny and Monika Rusnakova Perceptions of Various Cartographic Representations Under Specific Conditions ..................................................................................................... 349 Zdeněk Stachoň, Čeněk Šašinka and Václav Talhofer Table of Contents vii viii Table of Contents Monitoring and Comparing: A Cartographic Web Application for Real-time Visualization of Hydrological Data ..................................... 409 Christophe Lienert, Melanie Kunz, Rolf Weingartner and Lorenz Hurni Designing Map Keys for Crisis Management on the Regional Operational and Informational Centre Level: Monitoring Transport of Dangerous Goods via Contextual Visualisation .................................... 425