Title :
Geoportal for the Management of Natural Threat and Risk
Author :
Castro Benavides, Lina Maria ; Rivera Valencia, Diana Marcela ; Vila Ortega, Jose Joaquin ; Acosta Correa, Beatriz Susana
Author_Institution :
Syst. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Quindio Armenia, Quindio, Armenia
fDate :
June 30 2014-July 3 2014
Abstract :
The Natural Threat and Risk Geoportal of Quindío is a technological platform that allows the publication of geographic information by official sources and scientists, search information, download maps and data by users, exchange and download of geographic information about natural hazard in the region. This project was conceived by the international initiative of the Latin American Community of Spatial Data Infrastructure - LatinIDE and also includes trends such as Web 2.0 philosophy or "web of people".
Keywords :
geographic information systems; hazardous areas; query formulation; risk analysis; Latin American Community; LatinIDE; Quindío; download maps; geographic information; geoportal; natural hazard; natural risk; natural threat; search information; spatial data infrastructure; Catalogs; Communities; Educational institutions; Hazards; Portals; Risk management; Spatial databases; geopar Quindío; geoportal; latinIDE community; natural hazard; risk management;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), 2014 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Guimaraes
DOI :
10.1109/ICCSA.2014.42
