Recent developments in information technology have enabled collection and processing of vast amounts of personal data, business data and spatial data. It has been widely recognized that spatial data analysis capabilities have not kept up with the need for analyzing the increasingly large volumes of geographic data of various themes that are currently being collected and archived. On one hand, s...

Over the past few decades, four distinct and largely independent research and policy communities--disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, environmental management and poverty reduction--have been actively engaged in reducing socio-economic vulnerability to natural hazards. However, despite the significant efforts of these communities, the vulnerability of many individuals and commun...

Fire disaster is a great threat to lives and property. Automatic fire alarm system provides real-time surveillance, monitoring and automatic alarm. It sends early alarm when the fire occurs and helps to reduce the fire damage. Wireless sensor network has become the most important technology in environmental monitoring and home or factory automation in recent years. In this paper, an automatic f...

From mid June 2010 to early August 2010, the white sandy beaches along Alabama’s Gulf coast were inundated with crude oil discharged from the Deepwater Horizon well. The long-term consequences of this environmental catastrophe are still unfolding. Although BP has attempted to clean up some of these beaches, there still exist many unanswered questions regarding the physical, chemical, and ecolog...

— The floods recognition on the net (Floreon+) is a system primary developed to provide flood monitoring and simulating capabilities that support flood management process within the Moravian-Silesian (MSK) region in the Czech Republic. The major aim of this paper is to introduce the basic design, structure, components and algorithm of the FLOREON+ system that integrates different types of envi...

Classic studies on local demographic consequences of natural disasters in the United States are now more than 30 years old, raising questions about how and to what extent relevant patterns have changed over intervening years, as the number and cost of recorded environmental hazards have increased. This study examines these questions at the county level for the nation as a whole, using recent ce...

In this work, it proposes mobility based dynamic reconfiguration system in WSN. In this work, it uses the concept of dynamic reconfiguration routing protocol that achieves the need of various applications and also various network conditions. In this work, an environmental data collection scenario is taken. In this, all nodes are in dynamic nature and moves randomly. All nodes are communicating ...

In this research, we documented a bias in which people underestimate the potential risk of a disaster to a target location when the disaster spreads from a different state, but not when it spreads from an equally distant location within the same state. We term this the border bias. Following research on categorization, we propose that people consider locations within a state to be part of the s...