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Customized Visualization of Natural Hazards Assessment Results and Associated Uncertainties through Interactive Functionality
- Source :
- Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 38:232-242
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2011.
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Abstract
- Communication of natural hazard assessment results is crucial to protect people and infrastructure from devastating impacts of extreme events. While hazard maps provide important information on potential impacts, their interpretation and the general knowledge exchange between stakeholders is often difficult. Web-based information systems contain the potential to support hazard management tasks by fast distribution and customization of hazard visualizations through interactive functionality. Cartographic principles are, however, often ignored in existing web-based visualizations which leads to poor graphical results and consequently to an impairment of the information flow. While these issues need to be solved, a new task is already waiting: the integration of uncertainty information into hazard visualizations. Since many hazard management activities rely on hazard assessment results, communication of associated uncertainties among experts is vital. The challenge of this research is to overcome these exist...
- Subjects :
- Computer science
Geography, Planning and Development
Hazard analysis
computer.software_genre
Hazard
Personalization
Visualization
Risk analysis (engineering)
Management of Technology and Innovation
Natural hazard
Information system
General knowledge
Data mining
Information flow (information theory)
computer
Civil and Structural Engineering
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15450465 and 15230406
- Volume :
- 38
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cartography and Geographic Information Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........025ebf1eb347ece8a8d07b06a144994c