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Integrating Web GIS and Augmented Reality techniques in nuclear accident response.
Last modified: 2016-07-01
Abstract
During nuclear accidents, when radioactive materials spread into the environment, the people in the affected areas should evacuate immediately. However, few information systems are available regarding escape guidelines for nuclear accidents. Many countries have therefore devised emergency response strategies, including confining nuclear accident sites, monitoring site changes, evacuating population from the site, organizing relief personnel, and establishing emergency response centers. In order to implement these strategies, many researchers proposed Information Technology(IT)-based methodologies and applications. Government agencies and personnel use these methodologies and applications to deal efficiently with nuclear accidents. However, during nuclear accidents, although evacuating people near the accident sites and avoiding exposure within the radioactive environment are top priorities, few studies have investigated the information systems that address these issues. Therefore, in our research, we took advantages of Web GIS, such as computerization, network accessibility and Augmented Reality on mobile phones to develop a system and Mobile Escape Guidelines (MEG) to provide useful data for disaster responsible organization. We referred to the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) specifications, i.e. WMS(Web Map Service), WFS(Web Feature Service), WPS(Web Processing Service) and applied AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technologies to display spatial data and provide spatial query. We could markup hot areas, warm areas and cold areas for responsible staves to control the accident scene. And the staves could provide decision making sheets for related organizations by using “cross spatial queries” to handle important information like traffic, population, nearby schools and emergency calls. Furthermore, our system provided multiuser functionality. Responsible staves could operate our system at the same time to run tasks with each other and publish messages to avoid mistakes. With this system, the loss from disasters would be effectively reduced and the tasks would run in good order. Mobile Escape Guidelines (MEG) adopts two techniques. One technique is the geographical information that offers multiple representations; the other is the augmented reality that provides semi-realistic information services. When this study tested the mobile escape guidelines, the results showed that this application was capable of identifying the correct locations of users, showing the escape routes, filtering geographical layers, and rapidly generating the relief reports. Users could evacuate from nuclear accident sites easily, even without relief personnel, since using slim devices to access the mobile escape guidelines is convenient. Overall, this study is a useful reference for a nuclear accident emergency response.
Keywords
Nuclear accidents; Emergency Response; Web GIS (Web based Geographic Information System) ; Augmented Reality
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