Disaster management aims to mitigate the potential damage from the disasters, ensure
immediate and suitable assistance to the victims, and attain effective and rapid recovery …

Abstract Geographic Information Systems (GIS) continue to gain important recognition from
disaster practitioners and academic researchers during what is arguably the most publicly …

Geographically-grounded situational awareness (SA) is critical to crisis management and is
essential in many other decision making domains that range from infectious disease …

Situational awareness (SA) is critical to mobilizing a rapid, efficient, and effective response
to disasters. Limited by time and resources, response agencies must make decisions about …

Abstract Since Google Earth was first released in 2005, it has attracted hundreds of millions
of users worldwide and made a profound impact on both academia and industry. It can be …

Remote sensing is increasingly used to assess disaster damage, traditionally by
professional image analysts. A recent alternative is crowdsourcing by volunteers …

This study presents new software, called Google Earth-based Optimal HAulage RouTing
System (GEOHARTS), to improve the functionality of Google Earth for optimal haulage …

The grand narrative about Israel's Exodus from Egypt, mainly preserved in the Book of
Exodus in the Hebrew Bible, holds momentous significance for ancient Israel, Jewish …

Information foraging and sense-making with heterogeneous information are context-
dependent activities. Thus visual analytics tools to support these activities must incorporate …

In the immediate aftermath of a disaster, local and international aid organisations deploy to
deliver life-saving aid to the affected population. Yet pre-disaster road maps and road …