Abstract
The development of new and better methods for preventing and managing natural disasters requires a variety of different data sets, covering the range from referenced data, e.g. topographic data and digital elevation models, to various kinds of thematic data, e.g. data about soil, vegetation and land usage as well as monitoring data like precipitation and water levels. So a well-organised data and information management and the implementation of a modern processing environment to acquire, store, analyse and visualise data were decisive for the success of the German Research Network Natural Disasters (DFNK). An information infrastructure was established to support data management and information flows inside the network. A web-based portal offers general information to the public and internal documents, data and software tools to the project community. A catalog service allows the overview of existing but distributed data scombined with flexible data retrieval. Based on internet technology and global standards these concepts contribute to a superior information infrastructure and finally substantiate to the development of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). SDIs aim is to improve availability and usability of spatial data for the manifold application areas. Disaster management is one field depending on a very high level on high-quality data equipment, and on a working SDI.
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Abbreviations
- CEDIM:
-
Center of Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology
- CIPI:
-
Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative
- DFNK:
-
German Research Network Natural Disasters (Deutsches Forschungsnetz Naturkatastrophen)
- DIF:
-
Directory Interchange Format
- GFZ:
-
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
- GI:
-
Geoinformation
- GIS:
-
Geographic Information System
- GML:
-
Geographic Markup Language
- GPS:
-
Global Positioning System
- GSDI:
-
Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
- HTTP:
-
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- ICT:
-
Information and Communication Technology
- INSPIRE:
-
Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe
- ISO:
-
International Organisation for Standardisation
- IT:
-
Information technology
- OGC:
-
Open Geospatial Consortium
- PIK:
-
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- SDI:
-
Spatial Data Infrastructure
- SIG:
-
Special Interest Group
- THW:
-
Federal Technical Emergency (Technisches Hilfswerk Agency)
- XML:
-
Extensible Markup Language
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Köhler, P., Wächter, J. Towards an Open Information Infrastructure for Disaster Research and Management: Data Management and Information Systems Inside DFNK. Nat Hazards 38, 141–157 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-005-8606-4
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