Major and minor disasters are part of our environment. The challenge we all have to face is to sw... more Major and minor disasters are part of our environment. The challenge we all have to face is to switch from relief to preparedness. Recent events from Haiti to Japan revealed a new scenario: web and mobile technologies can play a crucial role to manage the disasters, increasing and improving the information flow between the different actors and playerscitizens, civil protection bodies, local and central governments, volunteers, media. In this perspective, "the post-Gutemberg revolution" is changing our communication framework and practices. Mobile devices and advanced web data management may ameliorate preparedness and boost crises response in the shadow of natural and man-made disasters, and are defining new approaches and operational models. Key words are: crowdsourcing, geolocation, geomapping. A full integration of web and mobile solutions allows geopositioning and geolocalization, video and photo sharing, voice and data communications, and guarantees accessibility anytime and anywhere. This can also give the direct push to set up an effective operational dual side system to "inform, monitor and control". Starting from the international experiences, Open Resilience Network and Italian Firefighters have carried out tabletop and full scale exercises to test tools and procedures and experiment the use of new technologies to better manage information flow from/to different actors. The paper will focus the ongoing experimental work on missing person emergency, leaded by Italian Firefighters TAS team-Andrea Di Lolli and Davide Lombardoand supported by a multi-competences team from Open Resilience Network and University of Turin-Elena Rapisardi and Massimo Lanfranco. The aim of the paper is to share methods and technologies used, and to show the operational results of the exercise carried out during PROTEC2011, in order to stimulate comments that will be taken into account in the further research steps.
ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017
Abstract. One of the challenging purposes that must be undertaken by applied geomatics, is the ne... more Abstract. One of the challenging purposes that must be undertaken by applied geomatics, is the need of monitoring by documenting continuously over time the evolution of urban spaces. Nowadays, this is a subject of great interest and study, mainly in case of sudden emergency events that implicate urban areas and specific historical buildings of our heritage. The newest Geomatics technique solutions must enable the demands of damage documentation, risk assessment, management and data sharing as efficiently as possible, in relation to the danger condition, to the accessibility constraints of areas and to the tight deadlines needs. In August 24th 2016, the first earthquake hit the area of central Italy with a magnitude of 6.0; since then, the earth never stop shaking in a wide area in the middle of Italy. On 26th and 30th of October, two other big seismic events were recorded (magnitude 5.9 and 6.5) and the already damaged built heritage were struck again. Since the beginning of the eme...
Major and minor disasters are part of our environment. The challenge we all have to face is to sw... more Major and minor disasters are part of our environment. The challenge we all have to face is to switch from relief to preparedness. Recent events from Haiti to Japan revealed a new scenario: web and mobile technologies can play a crucial role to manage the disasters, increasing and improving the information flow between the different actors and playerscitizens, civil protection bodies, local and central governments, volunteers, media. In this perspective, "the post-Gutemberg revolution" is changing our communication framework and practices. Mobile devices and advanced web data management may ameliorate preparedness and boost crises response in the shadow of natural and man-made disasters, and are defining new approaches and operational models. Key words are: crowdsourcing, geolocation, geomapping. A full integration of web and mobile solutions allows geopositioning and geolocalization, video and photo sharing, voice and data communications, and guarantees accessibility anytime and anywhere. This can also give the direct push to set up an effective operational dual side system to "inform, monitor and control". Starting from the international experiences, Open Resilience Network and Italian Firefighters have carried out tabletop and full scale exercises to test tools and procedures and experiment the use of new technologies to better manage information flow from/to different actors. The paper will focus the ongoing experimental work on missing person emergency, leaded by Italian Firefighters TAS team-Andrea Di Lolli and Davide Lombardoand supported by a multi-competences team from Open Resilience Network and University of Turin-Elena Rapisardi and Massimo Lanfranco. The aim of the paper is to share methods and technologies used, and to show the operational results of the exercise carried out during PROTEC2011, in order to stimulate comments that will be taken into account in the further research steps.
ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017
Abstract. One of the challenging purposes that must be undertaken by applied geomatics, is the ne... more Abstract. One of the challenging purposes that must be undertaken by applied geomatics, is the need of monitoring by documenting continuously over time the evolution of urban spaces. Nowadays, this is a subject of great interest and study, mainly in case of sudden emergency events that implicate urban areas and specific historical buildings of our heritage. The newest Geomatics technique solutions must enable the demands of damage documentation, risk assessment, management and data sharing as efficiently as possible, in relation to the danger condition, to the accessibility constraints of areas and to the tight deadlines needs. In August 24th 2016, the first earthquake hit the area of central Italy with a magnitude of 6.0; since then, the earth never stop shaking in a wide area in the middle of Italy. On 26th and 30th of October, two other big seismic events were recorded (magnitude 5.9 and 6.5) and the already damaged built heritage were struck again. Since the beginning of the eme...
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