Exploring ontology potential in emergency management

GI4DM 2010 Conference - Geomatics for Crisis Management

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 132-137

  Fan, Z ^a   Zlatanova, S ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emergency management; Ontology; Semantic interoperability; Spatial information infrastructure

Indexed keywords

CIVIL DEFENSE; DISASTER PREVENTION; INTEROPERABILITY; ONTOLOGY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS;

COMPLEX ACTIVITY; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; ONTOLOGY TECHNOLOGY; SEMANTIC HETEROGENEITY; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 84959409288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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