When the tsunami comes to town - Improving evacuation modeling by integrating high-resolution population exposure

ISCRAM 2012 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Freire, Sérgio ^a   Aubrecht, Christoph ^b   Wegscheider, Stephanie ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D analysis; Evacuation modeling; Lisbon; Population exposure; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

3D ANALYSIS; ACCURATE MODELING; EVACUATION MODELING; HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL DISPLACEMENT; LISBON; MITIGATION MEASURES; POPULATION EXPOSURE; SPATIAL MODELING;

TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84905566915     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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