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The Role of Geoinformation in Disaster Management

Sonja Dimova

Abstract


Various disasters which occur often can be catastrophic to mankind. The development of technology enables geodesy and geoinformation to actively participate in the process of disaster management. Geoinformation are the basis for planning, monitoring and evacuating population in the process of disaster management. This paper has the objective to emphasize the role of geodesy and especially geoinformation in applying the process of disaster management.

Keywords


disasters; geoinformation; disaster management; quality of geoinformation; GIS; NSDI

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