Emergency communication and system design: The case of Indian ocean tsunami

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 300-306

  Chen, Rui ^a   Coles, John ^b   Lee, Jinkyu ^c   Rao, H Raghav ^b  

^a MEDAILLE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Emergency services; Globe; Information technology

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY THEORY; COMMUNICATION PRACTICES; EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; EMERGENCY SERVICE; EMERGENCY SERVICES; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; GLOBE; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI; INFORMATION SHARING; LARGE-SCALE EMERGENCY; NATURAL DISASTERS; SYSTEM DESIGN;

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; DESIGN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; TSUNAMIS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 77951597536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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