Publication details
Mapové služby v krizovém řízení
| Title in English | Map services in risk management |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Informační systémy v zemědělství a lesnictví - sborník příspěvků |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Earth magnetism, geography |
| Keywords | Mapping services; risk management; contextual cartographic visualization; OGC standards |
| Description | Risk management is the process of measuring or assessing risk and developing strategies how to manage it. This article presents the possibilities of context cartographic visualization in risk management - the way of displaying information to different users by using optimized cartographic visualization according to the context. Important features and phenomena are in this process highlighted, while the low-grade ones are suppressed or eliminated. Above mentioned principles has been tested in a case study of a research project called "Transportation of dangerous chemical load". It focuses on the development of a system that provides all necessary functionality for prevention of a dangerous load disaster and functionality for emergency in case of this disaster. |
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