By Alessandro Annoni, Lars Bernard, John Douglas, Joseph Greenwood, Irene Laiz (auth.), Professor Dr. Peter van Oosterom, Dr. Siyka Zlatanova, Elfriede M. Fendel (eds.)
ISBN-10: 3540249885
ISBN-13: 9783540249887
ISBN-10: 3540274685
ISBN-13: 9783540274681
Geo-information know-how bargains a chance to aid catastrophe administration: business injuries, street collisions, advanced emergencies, earthquakes, fires, floods and related catastrophes (for instance the hot large catastrophe with the Tsunami in South-East Asia on 26 December 2004). entry to wanted info, facilitation of the interoperability of emergency providers, and provision of high quality care to the general public are the various key requirements.
Such specifications pose major demanding situations for info administration, discovery, translation, integration, visualization and verbal exchange in line with the semantics of the heterogeneous (geo-) info assets with adjustments in lots of elements: scale/resolution, size (2D or 3D), class and characteristic schemes, temporal points (up-to-date-ness, heritage, predictions of the future), spatial reference approach used, etc.
The e-book offers a extensive assessment of the (geo-information) know-how, software program, platforms wanted, used and to be built for catastrophe administration. The publication provokes a large dialogue on platforms and necessities to be used of geo-information less than time and pressure constraints and surprising events, environments and circumstances.
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Oriented images and the related DDSM allow one to automatically produce artificial stereoscopic pairs and 3D color model. 4 An Application: The Trappistes Falaise In the morning of November 29 2003, a 600 m3 rock fall partially destroyed the Trappistes tunnel (Vallais region, near Martigny, in Switzerland) that was originally built to protect the road against landslides, and one person was killed. The installation of a sophisticated monitoring system, named GUARDAVAL allowed the road to be quickly opened again.
The precision in the determination of spherical coordinates (used by the instruments), is almost the same for each scanner model. The accuracy of the distance measurement ranges from 5 mm to 25 mm, according to the laser class used. 2 Laser Scanner Data Treatment Laser scanner data treatment consists of a set of actions that are necessary to obtain the correct digital model of an object, starting from a set of point clouds. This set of actions can be divided into 2 different steps: 1. the pre-treatment (or preliminary treatment) of the laser data; 2.
41/65; Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-first Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/41/20 and Corr. 1); UN Doc. 1, at 43; 25 ILM 1334 (1986). 38 Frans G. von der Dunk asters to duly inform other states concerned2. Principle VIII furthermore describes the envisaged role of the United Nations itself in this context: it “shall promote international cooperation, including technical assistance and coordination in the area of remote sensing”3. It should be noted, that Resolutions of the UN General Assembly are not binding legal documents per se; however, they may over time evolve into reflections of customary international law.
Geo-information for Disaster Management by Alessandro Annoni, Lars Bernard, John Douglas, Joseph Greenwood, Irene Laiz (auth.), Professor Dr. Peter van Oosterom, Dr. Siyka Zlatanova, Elfriede M. Fendel (eds.)
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