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The role of location for family reunification during disasters

Authors:

Gregory Miernicki,

Krittach Phichaphop,

George ThomaAuthors Info & Claims

HealthGIS '12: Proceedings of the First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Use of GIS in Public Health

Pages 11 - 18

https://doi.org/10.1145/2452516.2452519

Published: 06 November 2012 Publication History

Abstract

After large-scale disasters, displaced or injured people can lose contact with their family and friends. In an effort to mitigate the effects of these events, the US National Library of Medicine has developed People Locator, a Web-based system that allows family members to search for missing persons. The purpose of this paper is to describe the role of location in family reunification systems, in particular in People Locator, and the data input technologies that support it.

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Coriat FFladenmuller AArantes LMarin O(2016)Crowdsourcing-based architecture for post-disaster geolocation: A comparative performance evaluation2016 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA)10.1109/NCA.2016.7778583(1-9)Online publication date: Oct-2016
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Bekhor SCohen SDoytsher YKanza YSagiv YHuang YThill JZhang H(2015)A personalized GeoSocial app for surviving an earthquakeProceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management10.1145/2835596.2835616(1-6)Online publication date: 3-Nov-2015
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Index Terms

The role of location for family reunification during disasters
1. Applied computing
  1. Life and medical sciences
2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
    2. Web services

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HealthGIS '12: Proceedings of the First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Use of GIS in Public Health

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DOI:10.1145/2452516

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Tavakoli NYarmohammadian MSafdari RKeyvanara M(2016)Health sector readiness for patient tracking in disaster: A literature review on concepts and patternsInternational Journal of Health System and Disaster Management10.4103/2347-9019.1911064:3(75)Online publication date: 2016
https://doi.org/10.4103/2347-9019.191106
Coriat FFladenmuller AArantes LMarin O(2016)Crowdsourcing-based architecture for post-disaster geolocation: A comparative performance evaluation2016 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA)10.1109/NCA.2016.7778583(1-9)Online publication date: Oct-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/NCA.2016.7778583
Bekhor SCohen SDoytsher YKanza YSagiv YHuang YThill JZhang H(2015)A personalized GeoSocial app for surviving an earthquakeProceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management10.1145/2835596.2835616(1-6)Online publication date: 3-Nov-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2835596.2835616

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