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D-Aid – An App to Map Disasters and Manage Relief Teams and Resources

Author(s) -

Luana Carine Schünke,

Luiz Paulo Luna de Oliveira,

Maurício Cardoso,

Marta Becker Villamil

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

procedia computer science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334

H-Index - 76

ISSN - 1877-0509

DOI - 10.1016/j.procs.2015.05.469

Subject(s) - computer science , natural disaster , emergency management , voronoi diagram , visualization , first aid , property (philosophy) , world wide web , computer security , medical emergency , artificial intelligence , medicine , philosophy , physics , geometry , mathematics , epistemology , meteorology , political science , law

Natural or man-made disasters cause damage to life and property. Lack of appropriate emergency management increases the physical damage and loss of life. D-Aid, the smartphone App proposed by this article, intends to help volunteers and relief teams to quickly map and aid victims of a disaster. Anyone can put an occurrence after a disaster on a web map streamlining and decentralizing the information access. Through visualization techniques like heat maps and voronoi diagrams on a map implemented in the D-Aid app and also on a web map everyone can easily get information about amount of victims, their necessities and eminent dangers after disasters

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