Towards an Integrated Information Logistics for Multi Hazard EarlyWarning Systems

摘要

The delivery of user-tailored warning messages for heterogeneous user groups is a challenge rarely covered byhazard monitoring and Early Warning Systems (EWS) even though it is one of the four key elements of early warningsystems identified by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR). This article describesthe concepts of generic information logistics developed for the distant early warning system (DEWS). It is not limited tospecific hazard types, languages or other deployment specifics. Instead, it enables the generation of user-tailored warningmessages that account for specific needs, individual requirements, different levels of understanding, distinct perceptionsand varying personal abilities and it provides several filter mechanisms to avoid unintentional message flooding inemergency situations. This novel approach is completed by a reusable graphical user interface component, which providesfunctionality to generate warning messages in compliance with the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard to leverageinter-operability among early warning systems.