TOWARDS A MOBILE CONTEXT-SENSITIVE FRAMEWORK FOR INTEROPERABILITY AND IMPROVED SITUATIONAL AWARENESS IN CRISIS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

摘要

We present ongoing work towards a framework that enables not only users like first responders from emergency organizations but also citizens who, for example, reside in a natural disaster prone area to send geo-localized key information from the crisis site such as the number of injured persons, the type of injury or the degree of urgency. This geo-referenced information will be fed into the crisis network and will thus be instantaneously distributed to all relevant levels of the crisis management automatically, utilizing a data distribution mechanism for crisis management messages.