A Dashboard for the Unexpected: Open Data for Real-Time Disaster Response

Abstract

Real-time Open Data and the ability to create dashboards that aggregate multiple data feeds hold great potential as we adapt and respond to extreme weather events such as cyclones, earthquakes and bushfires. In this chapter, we present a tactical dashboard assembled to provide real-time information to citizens being impacted by extreme weather events. The dashboard is tactical as it is assembled “just in time” for the arrival of Cyclone Debbie, which impacted the East Coast of Australia in 2017. The chapter provides a review of available crisis dashboards, introduces the tactical Cyclone Dashboard (www.cyclonedashboard.com.au), discusses its technical components and provides the results of its preliminary evaluation. We conclude by reflecting on the value of such dashboards for providing real-time information to citizens during natural disasters.

Source : http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-13-6605-5_12

Date : September 26, 2019 at 04:57PM

Tag(s) : Data – Livres