Supporting community emergency management planning through a geocollaboration software architecture.
management is more than just events occurring within an situation. It encompasses a variety of persistent activities such as planning, , , and organizational change. We are studying planning practices in which geographic communities (towns and regions) prepare to respond efficiently to significant emergency events. Community planning is an extensive collaboration involving numerous stakeholders throughout the community and both reflecting and challenging the community's structure and resources. Geocollaboration is one aspect of the effort. Emergency managers, public works directors, first responders, and local transportation managers to exchange information relating to possible emergency event locations and their surrounding areas. They to examine geospatial maps together and collaboratively develop emergency plans and procedures. Issues such as emergency vehicle traffic routes and staging areas for command posts, arriving media, and personal first responders' vehicles must be agreed upon prior to an emergency event to ensure an efficient and effective . This work presents a software architecture that facilitates the development of geocollaboration solutions. The architecture extends prior geocollaboration research and reuses existing geospatial information models. Emergency management planning is one application domain for the architecture. Geocollaboration tools can be developed that support community-wide emergency management planning and . This paper describes how the software architecture can be used for the geospatial, emergency management planning activities of one community. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Literature review, Interviews, Tabletop , Software development
Interviews with experts and literature reviewDefinition of software requirementsSoftware designObservation of a meetings for of an airplane crash at a local airport.And several other observations of community activities that involve management planning.
Studying local management based on literatrure.In a nine-month period, we conducted eight semi-structured interviews with the coordinator of Centre Region and accompanied him at fourteen, -related meetings in the community.The primary method of data collection was , which was recorded in field notes. Secondary sources of data collection included meeting documentsThe semistructured interviews focused on the coordinator’s approach to and his perception of the local activities in the community.
Literature review, software development
Geocollaboration tools can be developed that support community-wide management planning and .
This paper has argued for the community-oriented nature of management planning work. It has described how multiple local agencies come together to prepare for and respond to emergencies.This focus on local agencies and citizen involvement, along with the fact that every occurs in some locale, emphasizes our interest in community planning.The software architecture described in this paper offers both a design and a toolkit for implementing geocollaboration applications. The architecture allows for the design and development of a variety of geocollaboration software tools. This is particularly well suited for planning, which has different geocollaboration needs depending on the context. The software architecture allows us, as the researchers, to explore different geocollaboration interactions and features within a specific use context. It also allows the development of unique applications for multiple contexts.The software architecture, and the corresponding development, is also beneficial to community emergency management planning. Through the design and development of collaborative tools for emergency planning work practices, a collaborative, virtual environment for emergency management planning can form.Our geocollaborative architecture can also support the unique roles people play in emergency management and allow tools to be tailored to those specific purposes.
We are studying management planning practices in which geographic communities (towns and regions) prepare to respond efficiently to significant events.This work presents a software architecture that facilitates the development of geocollaboration solutions. The architecture extends prior geocollaboration research and reuses existing geospatial information models.This paper describes how the software architecture can be used for the geospatial, planning activities of one community.
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