Contributors .................................................. VII
Introduction .................................................... 1
Sisi Zlatanova and Shailesh Nayak
Part 1: Use of Geo-Information technology in large disasters .... 9
1. Geoinformation-Based Response to the 27 May Indonesia
Earthquake - an Initial Assessment ......................... 11
Norman Kerle and Barandi Widartono
2. The Application of Geo-Technologies after
Hurricane Katrina .......................................... 25
Henrike Brecht
3. Application of Remote Sensing for Damage Assessment
of Coastal Ecosystems in India due to the December
2004 Tsunami ............................................... 37
Shailesh Nayak and Anjali Bahuguna
4. Increasing the Use of Geospatial Technologies for
Emergency Response and Disaster Rehabilitation in
Developing Countries ....................................... 57
David Stevens
Part 2: Remote Sensing Technology for Disaster Monitoring ...... 73
5. Adopting Multisensor Remote Sensing Datasets and
Coupled Models for Disaster Management ..................... 75
Gilbert L. Rochon, Dev Niyogi, Alok Chaturvedi,
Rajarathinam Arangarasan, Krishna Madhavan,
Larry Biehl, Joseph Quansah and Souleymane Fall
6. Nearshore Coastal Processes Between Karwar and
Bhatal, Central West Coast of India: Implications for
Pollution Dispersion ...................................... 101
Viswanath S.Hedge, G.Shalini, Shailesh Nayak
and Ajay S.Rajawat
7. Landslide Hazard Zonation in Darjeeling Himalayas:
a Case Study on Integration of IRS and SRTM Data .......... 121
Mopur Surendranath, Saibal Ghosh, Timir B.Ghoshal
and Narayanaswamy Rajendran
8. Monitoring and Interpretation of Urban Land Subsidence
Using Radar Interferometric Time Series and
Multi-Source GIS Database ................................. 137
Swati Gehlot and Ramon F.Hanssen
9. Extending the Functionality of the Consumer-Grade GPS
for More Efficient GIS and Mapping Applications ........... 149
Robert M.Mlkol
Part 3: System Architectures for Access of Geo-Information .... 165
10. Interoperable Access Control for Geo Web Services in
Disaster Management ....................................... 167
Jan Herrmann
11. Spatial Data Infrastructure for Emergency Response
in Netherlands ............................................ 179
Henk Scholten, Steven Fruijter, Arta Dilo and Erik
van Borkulo
12. Geocollaboration in Hazard, Risk and Response:
Practical Experience with Real-Time Geocollaboration
at Quebec Civil Security .................................. 199
Charles Siegel Donald Fortin and Yves Gauthier
13. On-line Street Network Analysis for Flood Evacuation
Planning .................................................. 219
Darka Mioc, François Anton and Gengsheng Liang
14. Multi-user tangible interfaces for effective
decision-making in disaster management .................... 243
Harmen Hofstra, Henk Scholten, Sisi Zlatanova and
Alessandra Scotta
Index ......................................................... 267
About the Editors ............................................. 271
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