Results of a cross-sectional study to determine the level of emergency and disaster response planning at Ohio nonhuman animal shelters and the role Ohio agencies have in emergency and disaster response planning in their communities indicated a lack of preparedness coupled with underutilization of the agencies as a resource. A total of 115 agencies (68%) responded to a standardized survey mailed...

During disaster response and recovery operations, civil engineers can be assigned a multitude of tasks including triage of building search priorities, identifi cation and evaluation of structural hazards, as well as the development of appropriate structural hazard mitigation techniques and monitoring of hazards, while coordinating and reporting this information to the incident command centre (I...

1 Using SDI and Web-Based System to Facilitate Disaster Management A. Mansourian, A. Rajabifard, M. J. Valadan Zoej, I. Williamson [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] : Faculty of Geodesy & Geomatics Eng., K.N.Toosi University of Technology : Center for Spatial Data Infrastructure and Land Administration, Department of Geomatics, The Unive...

This paper presents a new technology and a systematic approach for disaster response and recovery of Critical Physical Infrastructures (CPIs). Our suggested approach is based on using a Mobile Workstation Chariot (MWC) assembled on Segway personal transporter which supports both horizontal and vertical real-time visual data capture and transmission flow, first responders and civil engineers can...