Analysis of cross country trafficability

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Many decisions - not only in the field of Emergency Management or Military oriented actions - require nowadays in addition to reaching verdicts a large amount of spatial and geographical information data. If these data are handled in Geographical Information Systems - GIS, we are introducing new possibilities to handle and analyze this type of information in a way that divert substantially from traditional handling of the paper maps. A Geographical Information System is an IS with the capabilities not only to handle currently being produced digital maps in raster and vector formats but in addition analyze those for instance together with Remote Sensing techniques like GPS positioning and combining it with a real time intelligence reports. The development of the societies parallel to globalization and global dependencies trends, some symptoms of climate changes, ageing population, more complex societies and more complex systems lead also to a grater demand for more sophisticated information and information systems (Trnka 2003; Trnka et al. 2005a and 2005b; Quarantelli 1999; Rubin 1998; Rubin 2000; Kiranoudis et al. 2002; Mendonça et al. 2001; Beroggi 2001; Johnson 2002). The research teams at IDA/LiU have extensive experience with testing various forms of data capture, real time analyzes and diffusion of geographically registered data through, for example, mobile GIS technology. However, we have experienced a necessity for development of both entirely GIS-based models and supportive to them data to be analyzed, in order to improve all crucial phases of the Emergency Management scenario reasoning during a preventive and as well an information provisions stages. In this way information could be regarded as a strategic infrastructure that is now being investigated on the Swedish national level as well as by the European Union, for example through the European Network of Excellence - the GMOSS. One goal for GMOSS is to investigate good procedures for Emergency Management and Crisis Response, and as a consequence to build standardized and harmonized geographical databases that can be used in decision support systems. What is still to be added to the agenda is an implementation of several GIS-based models that are making use of all those databases for prediction of potential hazards, for preventive works and action plans. Objectives in this article are to contribute to the development of such models and to investigate necessary data for use in rescue-, relief- And preventive works, and to stress obligations for data uptodateness for structuralizing better preparedness plans etc. © 2006 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

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Sivertun, Å., & Gumos, A. (2006). Analysis of cross country trafficability. In Progress in Spatial Data Handling - 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, SDH 2006 (pp. 921–941). https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-35589-8_56

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