Locating
Earthquake Victims, New GIS Tools, now in the Cloud
New
tools to locate victims of earthquakes, and global information systems, to be
featured at Global Humanitarian conference in Seattle. The world's first
reliable earthquake victims locator, new global information systems (GIS)
platforms, latest cloud based tools to be featured at IEEE Global Humanitarian
Technology Conference October 21 -24, 2012 in Seattle, Washington.
If
there is a major earthquake over five points on the Richter scale this app
automatically and instantaneously sends an email out to say you've been in an
earthquake, says Australian business leader Adam Wells, developer of Earthquake
Buddy to be featured at the conference. And if you're not heard from within,
say thirty minutes, that they can come and find you.
Earthquake
Buddy is an app downloaded from the iPhone App Store and has no monthly fees. Its the worlds first, nothing else like it, says Wells. During an earthquake
anywhere in the world people preselected will receive a notice from the cloud. From international seismic feeds there will be a tagged map of where you were
when the earthquake happened, says Wells.
Also
featured at the conference and using new cloud enabled technology is a GIS
platform that enables relief agencies and non-government organizations (NGOs) to
see the real world around them in fine geographic detail. We've found ways to
abstract nearly everything that could be seen in the real world, says David
Gadsden, who is leading the nonprofit organization program for the Environmental
Systems Research Institute (Esri). This is really a paradigm shift for Esri
technology, and GIS technology globally. Prior to the roll out of the cloud it
really took some investment in infrastructure to implement GIS across an
organization.
Both
Wells and Gadsden made their comments on the Science News Radio Network program,
the Promise of Tomorrow with Colonel Mason which is covering the conference. The
program originates in Dallas, Texas, and is now archived and Webcast for its
world audience. Wells spoke by phone from a site on the bay in Sidney,
Australia, and Gadsden from his office in Olympia, WA.
Solutions
to cure the worlds greatest human problems will get a thorough study at the
conference, produced by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE). More information on conference technical sessions, website registration,
hotel reservations and exhibiting is available at the website www.ieeeghtc.org
For
further information visit: http://www.examiner.com/
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