Research Article
Semantic Geotagging: A Location-Based Hypermedia Approach to Creating Situational Awareness
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-32320-1_7, author={Ray Bareiss and Martin Griss and Steven Rosenberg and Yu Zhang}, title={Semantic Geotagging: A Location-Based Hypermedia Approach to Creating Situational Awareness}, proceedings={Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services. Third International Conference, MobiCASE 2011, Los Angeles, CA, USA, October 24-27, 2011. Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={MOBICASE}, year={2012}, month={10}, keywords={mobile applications emergency response social media crowd sourcing mobile collaboration}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-32320-1_7} }- Ray Bareiss
Martin Griss
Steven Rosenberg
Yu Zhang
Year: 2012
Semantic Geotagging: A Location-Based Hypermedia Approach to Creating Situational Awareness
MOBICASE
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32320-1_7
Abstract
As emergency first responders and commanders increasingly use mobile phones, tablets, and social media to communicate, coordinate, and manage information during disasters, we see a need and opportunity to provide a mobile device-appropriate semantic layer to a geographically-based common operating picture. The challenge is to provide a simple, usable structure for a rapidly growing body of information to simplify the development of situational awareness in an unfolding disaster. We use a hyperlinked structure based on the ASK model to organize information in a readily accessible form. In this paper we describe our initial design and experience with an Android-based prototype, supported by a Ruby on Rails-based repository service. Our prototype allows the incorporation, aggregation, assessment, and redistribution of dynamic human-generated and sensor-derived information.