OPEN SOURCE GIS DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS FOR WILDFIRE AND FLOOD NATURAL HAZARDS WITH EMBEDED INTERACTIVE TRAINING RESOURCES

Proceeding of 1st International Conference on Environmental Protection and Disaster RISKs, 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.48365/ENVR-2020.1.21
Stefan Stefanov, Nina Dobrinkova, Emilia Tosheva

Abstract:
Training of volunteers that participate in natural hazard suppression measures is very important and time consuming. The volunteers do not have unlimited amount of time to dedicate on educational activities. Thus, interactive training platforms are the next step of the training processes. In our paper we will describe an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) tool specifically designed to support decision making for field operations in cases of natural disasters. The training activities for the tool implementation were based on Google G-Suite cloud application. The GIS application was developed to deliver field situation alerts in operational room and G suite was used before the field work as preparatory training for the teams working with it. The combination of the online tools described in the paper is presented as potential first step of real time volunteer training system that in future can be further elaborated and improved.

Keywords:
G Suite; volunteer’s training; open source GIS applications

Acknowledgements:
This paper has been supported partially by the Bulgarian National Scientific Fund project number DFNI DN12/5 “Efficient Stochastic Methods and Algorithms for Large-Scale Problems” and the National Scientific Program “Environmental Protection and Risk Reduction Under Adverse Events and Natural Disasters” – NNP-OS contract number Д01-322/18.12.2019.

Author information:
Author: Stefan Stefanov
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6012-533X
E-mail: stefans.stefanov303@gmail.com
Affiliation: Institute of Information and Communication Technologies – BAS

Author: Nina Dobrinkova
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6506-748X
E-mail: ninabox2002@gmail.com
Affiliation: Institute of Information and Communication Technologies – BAS

Author: Emilia Tosheva
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3409-125X
E-mail: emilia_tosheva@swu.bg
Affiliation: Technical Faculty, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”

How to cite:
Stefanov, S., Dobrinkova, N., & Tosheva, E. (2020). Open Source GIS Decision Support Tools for Wildfire and Flood Natural Hazards with Embeded Interactive Training Resources. Proceeding of 1st International Conference on Environmental Protection and Disaster RISKs, 2020, p. 231-240. https://doi.org/10.48365/ENVR-2020.1.21