Learning about interoperability for emergency response: Geographic information technologies and the World Trade Center crisis

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Harrison, Teresa ^a   Gil Garcia, J Ramon ^a   Pardo, Theresa A ^a   Thompson, Fiona ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY RESPONSE; GEO-SPATIAL DATA; GEOGRAPHIC DATA; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (GIT);

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTEROPERABILITY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749643507     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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