Hazard warnings in Sri Lanka: Challenges of internetworking with Common Alerting Protocol

Intelligent Human Computer Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2007 Academic Proceedings Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 281-293

  Gow, Gordon ^a   Anderson, Peter ^b   Waidyanatha, Nuwan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Last Mile Hazard Warning Systems LIRNEasia   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

All hazard; Common alerting protocol; Last mile; Public warning; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE TESTING; STANDARDS; TEXT MESSAGING;

ALL-HAZARD; COMMON ALERTING PROTOCOLS; LAST-MILE; PUBLIC WARNING; SRI LANKA;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 84855836983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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