Optimizing Situational Awareness in Disaster Response Networks

Situational Awareness Technologies for Disaster Response

Responding to natural or man-made disasters, in a timely and effective manner, can reduce deaths and injuries, contain or prevent secondary disasters, and reduce the resulting economic losses and social disruption. During a crisis, responding organizations confront grave uncertainties in making critical decisions. They need to gather situational information (e.g., state of the civil, transporta...

Utilizing community volunteered information to enhance disaster situational awareness

Social media allows the public to engage in the disaster response and recovery process in new and exciting ways. Many emergency management agencies in the United States are embracing social media as a new channel for alerts, warnings, and public outreach, but very few are mining the massive amounts of data available for use in disaster response. The research reflected in this paper strives to h...

Speech-Based Situational Awareness for Crisis Response

I. INTRODUCTION The goal of our work is to explore research in the framework of an end-to-end speech processing system that can automatically process human conversations to create situational awareness during crisis response. Situational awareness refers to knowledge about the unfolding crisis event, the needs, the resources, and the context. Accurate assessment of the situation is vital to ena...

Routing and Disaster Awareness in Optical Networks

Leveraging SDN for Cyber Situational Awareness in Coalition Tactical Networks

Coalition tactical networks are composed of different networks of two or more nations coming together for securing a mission in the tactical arena. Cyber security is an important consideration in coalition operations, and is a complex challenge due to the need for operational effectiveness, as well as for limited trust relationships that exist among coalition partners. New emerging paradigms in...