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Increasing numbers of natural disasters and man-made disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, air crashes, etc., have posed a challenge to the public and demonstrated the importance of disaster management. The success of disaster management, amongst all, largely depends on finding and successfully integrating related information to make decisions during the response phase. This information ranges from existing data to operational data. Most of this information is geographically related and therefore when discussing integration of information for disaster management response, we often refer to the integration of geo-information. Current efforts to integrate geo-information have been restricted to keyword-basedmatching Spatial Information Infrastructure (SII, may also known as Spatial Data Infrastructure). However, the semantic interoperability challenge is still underestimated. One possible way to deal with the problem is the use of ontology to reveal the implicit and hidden knowledge. This paper presents an approach for ontology development and ontology architecture, which can be used for emergency response.
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Xu, W., Zlatanova, S. (2007). Ontologies for Disaster Management Response. In: Li, J., Zlatanova, S., Fabbri, A.G. (eds) Geomatics Solutions for Disaster Management. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72108-6_13
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