The readings for this week focus on the fourth component of emergency management, response. You will read a short chapter in your text and two papers that address two contemporary challenges for GIS applied to response actions.
What are the key inter-agency coordination issues that should be considered to make a GIS-based response effort successful? How might recent advances in location-based services change the ways in which emergency management professionals and the public interact through geospatial information and technologies to respond to a disaster?
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This paper describes an approach from the Civil Engineering community to monitor and report on the status of buildings to provide evacuation guidance during an emergency situation.
What aspects of the proposed model do you think would work well? Are there missing components that you'd want to see considered as well?
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There have been 3D geospatial systems around for quite some time to represent the 3D characteristics of landscapes (both manmade and natural) – why are these systems not yet widely available for application in urban emergency management contexts?
This paper highlights how VGI can contribute to the development of 3D building models. What needs to happen before we could A) obtain complete coverages of areas at risk for disasters and B) before emergency managers can really use such data to augment their response actions?
I've left you with lots of choices here to respond to across each of these three prompts - please choose one of them to respond to yourself, and then respond to at least one of your classmates' postings with your reflections and/or pointers to relevant outside resources. Feel free to advance the conversation beyond the starting points I've given you here - the goal, as in previous discussion assignments, is to evolve our conversations and go deeper into these topics together.
Links
[1] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog588/sites/www.e-education.psu.edu.geog588/files/file/Guven_etal_2012.pdf
[2] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog588/sites/www.e-education.psu.edu.geog588/files/file/Goetz-Zipf_2012_OSM-3D.pdf