SafeCity - A GIS-based tool profiled for supporting decision making in urban development and infrastructure protection

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 89, Issue , 2014, Pages 174-187

  Kulawiak, Marcin ^a   Lubniewski, Zbigniew ^a  

^a GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

CARVER; Critical Infrastructure; GeoServer; Geovisual Analytics; GIS

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ATTACK; CHEMICAL HAZARDS; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HAZARDS; PUBLIC WORKS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); URBAN GROWTH;

CARVER; GEOSERVER; GEOVISUAL ANALYTICS; HAZARD SCENARIOS; INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION; INFRASTRUCTURE VULNERABILITIES; SPATIAL DENSITIES; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES;

DECISION MAKING; GIS; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; STRATEGIC APPROACH; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

GDANSK [POMORSKIE]; POLAND; POMORSKIE;

EID: 84920455182     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.08.031     Document Type: Article

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