Integrating sensor data and geospatial tools to enhance real-time disaster management capabilities: Wildfire observations

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 482, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-12

  Ambrosia, Vincent G ^a,b   Sullivan, Donald V ^b   Buechel, Sally W ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; FIRES; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

DATA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY INCIDENT MANAGEMENTS; GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; MULTISPECTRAL SENSORS; REAL-TIME INFORMATION; UNMANNED AIRBORNE SYSTEMS (UAS); VISUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

AIRBORNE SENSOR; DATA PROCESSING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REAL TIME; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856550987     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2482(01)     Document Type: Article

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