The Role of Mobile and SDI In Emergency Management

Emergency management requires precise and reliable information about the current situation of emergency , existing sources and facilities, while more than 80% of this information has component of location. Considering the urgent and time sensitive nature of emergency situations. It is necessary to collect and use spatial information of the current state of the emergency within the minimum waste of time. This will be achieved if in the context of a collaborative effort, each of the parties involved in emergency management , takes responsibilities for collecting some parts of spatial information required for emergency management and sharing them to be accessible foe wider emergency management community . in this regard, spatial Data infrastructure (SDI) is an appropriate framework to facilitate such collaboration in spatial data collection and sharing. Mansourain (2005) showed the improvement of emergency management by development SDI conceptual model and web-based GIS to facilitate information management. Based on SDI fromework for emergency management, field data collection real time updating of Emergency Operation center (EOC) on current emergency situation can be highly improved using Mobile GIS . Mobile GIS can also improve in field decision – making for emergency worker . meanwhile in order use mobile GIS for emergency management , it is neccssary to expand the developed SDI conceptual model to support Mobile GIS applications. This paper aims to address the role of Mobile GIS and SDI as in integrated framework for facilitating management by improving field data collection and in-field decision – making . this is based on a research project which is ongoing in Iran.

Keywords:

Spatial Data , SDI Emergement , Mobile GIS