Near real-time fire alert system in South Africa: From desktop to mobile service

Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 315-322

  Davies, Diane K ^a   Vosloo, Hein F ^b   Frost, Philip E ^c   Vannan, Suresh Santhana ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b ESKOM   (South Africa)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electricity; Fire alerts; GIS; Mobile technology; Remote sensing; Satellite; South Africa; Web mapping services

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; DISASTERS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; POWER GENERATION; POWER TRANSMISSION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SATELLITES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; VEGETATION;

ELECTRICITY; FIRE ALERTS; GIS; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; SATELLITE; SOUTH AFRICA; WEB MAPPING SERVICES;

FIRES;

EID: 57549115076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1394445.1394479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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