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Title
Southern African advanced fire information system |
Full text
http://www.iscram.org/ISCRAM2009/papers/; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3631 |
Date
2009 |
Author(s)
McFerren, G; Frost, P |
Abstract
This paper concerns the development of the South African Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS). Researchers describe a use case of wildfires causing electricity transmission lines to be adversely affected. This use case provided the rationale for investment into a system for detecting and monitoring wildfires. AFIS functionality is described and quantifies its user acceptance and benefits before discussing ongoing research and implementation efforts to allow AFIS to become a standards-compliant, service-oriented system serving the original use case but re-deployable or re-usable by other organisations for similar or alternative purposes. The paper ends with a view of future work that will potentially allow AFIS to reach a wider audience. - Copyright ISCRAM'09. This paper is available online from http://www.iscram.org/ISCRAM2009/papers/ |
Subject(s)
Advanced fire information system; AFIS; Electricity transmission lines; Fires; Information systems; Crisis response; Crisis management; Wildfires; ISCRAM'09 |
Language
en |
Type of publication
Presentation |
Identifier
McFerren, G and Frost, P. 2009. The Southern African advanced fire information system. Proceedings of the 6th International Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, 10-13 May 2009, pp 1-6; 978-91-633-4715-3 |
Repository
Pretoria - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
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