March 02, 2008

Disaster Information portals

InsTEDD: Global Early Warning System

posted by Satri on Monday January 28, @04:49PM Printer-friendly Email story Permalink Trackback URI Slashdotthis Diggthis Del.icio.us
from the warn-me-when-I-won't-have-to-show-up-at-work dept.
Ogle Earth describes a global early warning system using Google.org and InSTEDD. InSTEDD stands for Innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters. From this CFP article: "One of the applications that this project will focus around is the ability that Twitter has to work between the internet and mobile phones. Using a location detection feature, a message sent from a phone from the middle of Africa, will tie in with a layer on Google Earth, pinpointing the senders location, with the text message requesting help." Using geospatial technologies for emergencies and disaster management has been covered quite a few times before, including AlertMap, see related stories below. Another example is WebEOC Mapper, an ESRI ArcGIS Server based disaster response web interface released last September (via Kurt's Weblog).

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