Selected Project Ideas

This page provide a references to emergency management and homeland security literature for topics in Csci 5980. The references are grouped by the chapters in the textbook.

A project may be defined by reviewing the literature in context of the concepts learned from textbook and Encyclopedia of GIS, proposing new ideas and evaluating those via interviewing domain experts, case studies, as well as analytical methods such as prototyping, and computer simulation.

Related to Chapter 1: Introduction
- Brooks T, Geospatial Dimensions of Emergency Response: Application Areas and Needs, Proc. Geospatial Information and Technology Association Infrastructure Solutions Conference, 2008.
- Committee on Planning for Catastrophe (2007). Successful Response Starts With A Map: Improving Geospatial Support For Disaster Management , Washington, DC, National Academies Press, 2007.
- Whitepapers
  1. GIS for Homeland Security , Report of a executive summit, October 2001, ESRI.
  2. Whitepaper Series on The Geospatial Dimensions of Critical Infrastructure and Emergency Response : No 1 - Infrastructure Interdependencies , Spatial Infrastructure , GITA, 2008 - 2009.
  3. The Geospatial Dimensions of Critical Infrastructure and Emergency Response, David DiSera, Talbot Brooks, Pipeline and Gas Journal, 239(5), May 2012.
Related to Chapter 2: Databases
- T. Murphy, M. Jennex, Knowledge Management, Emergency Response and Hurricane Katrina, Intl. Jr. of Intelligent Control and Systems, 11(4), December 2006. pdf .
- B. Shafiq, J. Vaidya, V. Atluri, S. Chun, UICDS Compliant Resource Management System for Emergency Response, Proc. 11th Intl. Conf. on Digital Government Research, 2010. pdf .
Related to Chapter 3: Mathematical Frameworks
- US National Grid coordinate system for emergency response: Overview: ( PBS conversation , introduction from ESRI, powerpoint slides from Minnesota, ), FGDC: ( , Executive summary and collection of links )
Related to Chapter 4: Spatial Information Models
- Telescience (2010). Haiti Crisis Map , http://hypercube.telascience.org/haiti/.
- Cova, T.J, 1999.GIS in emergency management. In: Geographical Information Systems: Principles, Techniques, Applications, and Management, P.A. Longley, M.F. Goodchild, D.J. Maguire, D.W. Rhind (eds.), John Wiley & Sons, New York: 845-858.
- Dymon U.J., N.L. Winter, 1991. Emergency mapping in grassroots America: a derailment evacuation case study. Geoforum, 22(4): 377-389. webpage .
Related to Chapter 5: Representation and Algorithms
- N. Perrier et al., A survey of mdels and algorithms for emergency response logistics in electric distribution systems, CIRRELT, U Montreal, 2010. link .
- Cova, T.J., Dennison, P.E., Kim, T.H., Moritz, M.A, 2005. Setting wildfire evacuation trigger-points using fire spread modelling and GIS. Transactions in GIS, 9(4): 603-617. pdf
Related to Chapter 6: Data-structures, Access Methods
Related to Chapter 7: Architectures
- National Incident Management Standard : overview
- R. Chen et al., Emergency Response Information System Interoperability: Development of Chemical Incident Response Data Model, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2010. pdf
- M. Santos, et al., Dam Break Emergency Response Information System, Proceedings ISCRAM, 2004. pdf
Related to Chapter 8: Interfaces, Cartography, Visualization Review papers on cartography (e.g. symbology) for emergency management. Describe limitations of current approach and investigate Geovisualiztion (e.g. interaction and feedback, animation, 3D, non-visual), etc. for this domain. Representing papers include
1. S. Liu, L. Palen, The New Cartographers: Crisis Map Mashups and the Emergence of Neogeographic Practice , Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 37(1), January 2010 , pp. 69-90(22).
2. Federal Geographic Data Committee (2010). Homeland Security Working Group Symbology Reference , http://www.fgdc.gov/HSWG/index.html.
3. Dymon U.J, 2001. A standardized framework for hazards management mapping, Proc. 20th International Cartographic Conference, 4: 2760-2764. doc
4. Dymon U.J, 2003. An analysis of emergency map symbology, Int. J. Emergency Management, 1(3): 227-237. pdf
5. Monmonier (1997). Cartographies of Danger, Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Related to Chapter 9: Reasoning, Uncertainty
- J.D. Bales and C.R. Wagner, Sources of uncertainty in flood inundation maps, Journal of Flood Risk Management, 2, Blackwell Publishing, 2009. pdf
- A rising tide of uncertainty , a news artcile in The Times Record, July 30th, 2010.
Related to Chapter 10: Time