A cyberinfrastructure for community resilience assessment and visualization

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 42, Issue , 2015, Pages 34-39

  Li, Kenan ^a   Lam, Nina S N ^a   Qiang, Yi ^a   Zou, Lei ^a   Cai, Heng ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community resilience; CyberGIS; natural hazards; resilience inference measurement (RIM) model; web cartography

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); DECISION MAKING; HAZARDS; MAPS; VISUALIZATION;

COMMUNITY RESILIENCES; COMPONENT-ORIENTED; CYBER INFRASTRUCTURES; CYBERGIS; DISASTER RESILIENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTES; NATURAL HAZARD; WEB CARTOGRAPHIES;

DISASTERS;

CARTOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; GIS; INTERNET; MAPPING METHOD; NETWORK DESIGN; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

ELAGATIS;

EID: 84939785314     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: 15450465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2015.1060113     Document Type: Article

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