A Viewer System for Disaster Information Sharing

Abstract

In emergency operation against a disaster like earthquake, decision makers are required to collect and share exact information on its various damage such as victims, collapsed buildings and so on. Then they should give directions as quickly, easily and correctly as possible to the operators in the field. Our focus in this paper is to give a guideline of Graphical User Interface for efficient disaster information sharing to support decision making. We also implemented prototypes of a viewer system based on our guideline, and confirmed its effective in a few field experiments.