Improve an emergency response system for natural disaster management (earthquake) based on Telegeoinformatics

Accidents, crisis and then search, aid and rescue together form a cycle that repeats for several times in a country like Iran. In this cycle, commonly known as crisis management cycle, from its early stages i.e. determination of risk for regions up-to post-crisis and recovery stages that are final ones in such a cycle, we are constantly facing data and outputs which are somehow related to position and location. Gathering data both in pre and post stages of a crisis will not be a very difficult task, as the damaged society is then almost relieved of panic and therefore resources permit the authorities in charge to gather information as required. However, during the crisis and as long as the society is suffering critical conditions, it will be very useful and obviously difficult to gather information such as depth of damages, damaged regions, regions with risk potential, also dispersion of damages, resources and facilities, and etc. Thus, considering lack of tools and appropriate technology in the country for gathering information during crisis conditions, this research has focused on gathering information in crisis management response phase. In this regard, concepts of Telegeoinformatics (TGI) and its various architectures were presented and continued with designing a system for gathering information during earthquake crisis. Finally, an emergency response system was designed
and was presented as a software package. Moreover, the model and software of this system was presented in UML for further development by other researchers that are studying in the same fields, which resulted in presentation of suggestions for development of this system using other technologies.