Improving emergency response: Citizens performing actions

ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 170-174

  Romano, Marco ^a   Onorati, Teresa ^a   Díaz, Paloma ^a   Aedo, Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Community engagement; Mobile application; Situation awareness

Indexed keywords

MOBILE COMPUTING; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ADVANCED VISUALIZATIONS; COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; OPERATION CENTER; REMOTE SUPERVISION; SITUATION AWARENESS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84905836739     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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