Integrating geographic information systems, spatial digital libraries and information spaces for conducting humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations in urban environments

GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Volumn 1999-November, Issue , 1999, Pages 146-151

  Kumar, Vished ^a   Bugacov, Alejandro ^a   Coutinho, Murilo ^a   Neches, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

collaboration; digital libraries; disaster relief operations; geographic information systems; information spaces; visualization

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; DISASTER PREVENTION; EMERGENCY SERVICES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION FILTERING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; SEARCH ENGINES;

ANALYSIS TOOLS; COLLABORATION; COLLABORATION TOOL; DISASTER RELIEF OPERATIONS; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCES; INFORMATION SPACES; IT SUPPORTS; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; RETRIEVAL TOOL; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 0002429569     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/320134.320171     Document Type: Conference Paper

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