Collaboration and interaction of first responders with the general public

There is an increased focus on the need for collaboration between first responders and the general public. This type of collaboration requires soft skills that are not necessarily included in more traditional command and control trainings for first responders. Learning to collaborate with the general public requires different didactics than...

COBACORE Community Based Comprehensive Recovery : D1.2: State of the art, trends and oppertunities - WP1: Domain analysis, scope and requirements

COBACORE Community Based Comprehensive Recovery : D1.1: Scope and Requirements - WP1: Domain analysis, scope and requirements

A journey into the information Typhoon: Typhoon Haiyan DRL Field Report Findings and Research Insights

A journey into the information Typhoon Haiyan Disaster: Resilience Lab Field Report findings and research insights : Part III - Impact Evaluation

A journey into the information Typhoon Haiyan Disaster: Resilience Lab Field Report findings and research insights : Part II - The Role of Information

A journey into the information Typhoon Haiyan Disaster: Resilience Lab Field Report findings and research insights : Part I - Into the Fields

Indoor radar SLAM A radar application for vision and GPS denied environments

Indoor navigation especially in unknown areas is a real challenge. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology provides a solution. However SLAM as currently based on optical sensors, is unsuitable in vision denied areas, which are for example encountered by first responders. Radar can be used to overcome this drawback, however no...

Indoor radar SLAM A radar application for vision and GPS denied environments

Indoor navigation especially in unknown areas is a real challenge. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology provides a solution. However SLAM as currently based on optical sensors, is unsuitable in vision denied areas, which are for example encountered by first responders. Radar can be used to overcome this drawback, however no...

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Regionaal gekwetter: Ervaringen met Twitter bij incidentbestrijding

Het professioneel gebruik van Twitter krijgt binnen de veiligheidsregio’s steeds meer aandacht. Deze aandacht gaat vooral uit naar de kracht van Twitter als communicatiemiddel. Kan Twitter ook een bijdrage leveren aan de beeldvorming van hulpverleningsdiensten?

Situational Awareness for first responders: Evaluation of the BIMS field trial

Recent years have shown an increase in the use of tools that enhance situational awareness. Use of GPS for navigation has become common usage. Furthermore, in many countries vehicle based computer systems are currently being fielded for first responders providing preparative information access. For example in the Netherlands several fire service...

Effects of mobile map orientation and tactile feedback on navigation speed and situation awareness

Mobile information systems aid first responders in their tasks. Support is often based on mobile maps. People have different preferences for map orientations (heading-up or north-up), but map orientations also have different advantages and disadvantages. In general north-up maps are good for building up situation awareness and heading-up maps...

Closing the Information Loop

Decision support systems require a form of situation awareness. to generate situation awareness information is needed. not all available information is necessary or equally influential. this paper proposes a way to determine which and when information is relevant. the goal of this is to minimize communication and processing of irrelevant...