Airborne near-real-time monitoring of assembly and parking areas in case of large-scale public events and natural disasters

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 682-699

  Römer, Hannes ^a   Kersten, Jens ^a   Kiefl, Ralph ^a   Plattner, Stefan ^a   Mager, Alexander ^a   Voigt, Stefan ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

decision support; emergency response; rich internet applications; supervised classification; web service

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894283324     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2013.866240     Document Type: Article

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