Improving Disaster Resilience and Mitigation - IT Means and Tools

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Teodorescu, Horia-Nicolai (Editor), Kirschenbaum, Alan (Editor), Cojocaru, Svetlana (Editor), Bruderlein, Claude (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Natural disasters.; Computer simulation.; Application software.; Geographical information systems.; Computer Science.; Simulation and Modeling.; Natural Hazards.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Computer Applications.

The focus of this volume is comprised of the fundamentals, models, and information technologies (IT) methods and tools for disaster prediction and mitigation. A more detailed list of topics includes mathematical and computational modeling of processes leading to or producing disasters, modeling of d...