Urban RAT: New Tool for Virtual and Site-Specific Mobile Rapid Data Collection for Seismic Risk Assessment

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Ploeger, S K ^a   Sawada, M ^a   Elsabbagh, A ^a   Saatcioglu, M ^a   Nastev, M ^b   Rosetti, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c Ecole Nationale des Sciences Geographiques   (France)

Author keywords

Disasters; Geographic information systems; Geohazards; Hazards; Information management; Mapping; Seismic analysis; Structural analysis

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DISASTERS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HAZARDS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; RATS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BUILDING STRUCTURAL; EARTHQUAKE LOSS ESTIMATION; GEO-HAZARDS; MOBILE SMART DEVICES; SEISMIC ANALYSIS; SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 84959016778     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000472     Document Type: Article

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