Interactive 2D - 3D Digital Maps for the Support of Emergency Teams During Rescue Operations
Linde Vande Velde, Symeon Chatzinotas, Martha Larson, Jobst Löffler, Γεώργιος Παλιούρας · 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport SystemsITS AmericaITS JapanERTICO · 2005
SHARE, an EU-funded 6th Framework Program project, addresses the need of emergency teams for multimodal communication and for decision support with a prototype advanced mobile service based on Push-to-Share technology. The SHARE system provides emergency workers with on-site, on- line details of operational history and current operational status as well as access to pertinent supporting information, in particular information concerning the environment of the incident. The SHARE system will incorporate an enhanced Tele Atlas 2D-3D digital map, including details on buildings and roads above and beyond those represented in basic digital road maps. The SHARE system will log communications and other multimedia data generated during the operation and store it in an ontology-based Knowledge Base, which makes possible the integration of the spatial information of digital maps with multimedia and operational information from external databases. In the final phase of the SHARE project, the system will implement a 2D-3D digital map enhanced with voice, image, text and video information. The map will be fully interactive, permitting emergency workers with mobile end devices such as PDAs and tablet PCs to query the system using a multimodal interface and retrieve information as well as to enter new information as the operation unfolds.