This article presents ST-IIM (Spatio-Temporal Image Information Mining) – an ontology to model the spatio-temporal changes during a flood disaster event. It is integrated with the image ontology to represent the various characteristics of Remote Sensing (RS) images. The goal is to query, detect and monitor disaster affected areas from multi-temporal images by automatic reasoning. The spatial an...

Integrated simulation systems are important tools to decrease the damage caused by various disasters. In peacetime, it would be used for disaster-proof city planning, disaster prevention plans, and disaster response training. At the time of a disaster occurs, it will be used for real-time simulation to predict disasters. The paper describes the simulation system that has the following features:...

INTRODUCTION In order to prepare the healthcare system and healthcare personnel to meet the health needs of populations affected by disasters, educational programs have been developed by numerous academic institutions, hospitals, professional organizations, governments, and non-government organizations. Lacking standards for best practices as a foundation, many organizations and institutions ha...

In response to the lessons and criticisms over the recent large-scale disasters and relief activities during the disasters, many government organizations around the world have recently launched initiatives to improve their disaster management capabilities. While a revision of disaster management capability may entail transformation of organizational structures, business processes, and technical...

Governmental responses to Hurricane Katrina are generally cited as policy failures. Media and popular analyses focus on the federal government’s policy failures in hazard preparedness, response, and recovery. Meanwhile, disaster experts realize that disaster response is a shared intergovernmental responsibility. We examine the federal nature of natural disaster policy in the US to consider whet...

It has long been argued in the research literature that conducting disaster exercises produces a variety of benefits that promote effective emergency management. In spite of nearly universal acceptance of the claim, there are few empirical studies that have explored the effects of exercises on participants. This paper reviews the role of exercises in the creation of community disaster preparedn...

Studies of households have shown a poor perception of natural disaster risks and potential disaster severity, typically overreacting to a disaster event but underpreparing and underinsuring after periods of quiet. Many estimates of disaster response and their economic impacts haven’t taken these sub-optimal household perceptions into consideration. Here I build a model of a coastal community to...

Some different techniques were adopted in disaster management and research. Difficulties appeared in operational disaster emergency response works. There is no effective scheme to integrate various methods to a system considering that big difference exist among different disaster happening environment. Considering OHE as the unification of objects having relationship with natural disaster, we p...

The Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) develops and provides access to health information resources and technology for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. DIMRC focuses on maintaining access to health information at all phases of disasters, developing innovative products and services for emergency personnel, conducting research to support disaster health informat...