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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2019 Many African countries are prone to numerous hazardous events, exacerbated by the vulnerability of their rapidly increasing population and leading to frequent disasters that often have dire fiscal and development implications.
Henry Ngenyam Bang +2 more
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A scientometric analysis of ICT-assisted disaster management
Natural Hazards, 2021 In recent years, natural and manmade disasters such as floods, earthquakes, wildfires, and tsunamis have occurred with human losses and environmental deterioration.
S. Sood, K. Rawat
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Establishing an effective real-time monitoring and early warning system for glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) requires a full understanding of their occurrence mechanism. However, the harsh conditions and hard-to-reach locations of these glacial lakes
Changjun Gu +4 more
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The concept of an early warning system for the use of nuclear technology in Indonesia [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 The application of nuclear power plants in the world is increasing and has the potential for accidents, including nuclear weapons tests from outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, thus allowing radioactive releases to fall into Indonesian ...
Prima Meiliasari Dewi +3 more
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A Critical Review of Social Resilience Properties and Pathways in Disaster Management
International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2021 Resilience as a concept is multi-faceted with complex dimensions. In a disaster context, there is lack of consistency in conceptualizing social resilience. This results in ambiguity of its definition, properties, and pathways for assessment.
A. Saja +3 more
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Disaster Management in Smart Cities
Smart Cities, 2021 The smart city concept, in which data from different systems are available, contains a multitude of critical infrastructures. This data availability opens new research opportunities in the study of the interdependency between those critical ...
L. Elvas +3 more
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Sustainability, 2021 Floods have been a major cause of destruction, instigating fatalities and massive damage to the infrastructure and overall economy of the affected country.
Hafiz Suliman Munawar +4 more
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The Development of a Methodology for Calibrating a Large-Scale Laboratory Rainfall Simulator
Atmosphere, 2018 The objective of this study was to establish a method to calibrate a large-scale laboratory rainfall simulator through developing and implementing an automated rainfall collection system to assess the reliability and accuracy of a rainfall simulator. The
Haksoo Kim +3 more
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LIDAR-BASED MULTI-SENSOR MODULE DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF APPLICABILITY FOR DAMAGE INVESTIGATION OF INDOOR DISASTER [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022 As the risk of disaster scenes increases, the number of cases of acquiring disaster scenes information using unmanned robots is increasing. Because unmanned robots can be remotely controlled, sensors such as LiDAR and optical cameras are installed so ...
D. Y. Shin +7 more
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Cogent Business & Management, 2021 Big data analytics (BDA) technologies have emerged as a cornerstone for predicting, preparing, and preventing natural disasters, that directly save millions of human lives.
Umer Zaman +3 more
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