Collection and remote management of disaster information with mobile positioning terminals

• Published in: 2011 19th International Conference on Geoinformatics pp. 1 - 5
• Main Authors: Tao Hu, Xinyan Zhu, Kehua Su, Lian Duan
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2011
• Subjects: data collection; disaster information; Emergency services; Global Positioning System; Instant messaging; instant messaging (IM); Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; mobile terminal; off-line; Prototypes; remote management; track

In recent years, earthquake, typhoon, snowflake and other natural disasters happened frequently and cause large number of casualties and economic losses. It needs to be further improved under the circumstances of sudden natural disasters. The solution to the problem is to provide data support for em...