A Pipeline for Disaster Response and Relief Coordination

Published in SIGIR'19 Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2019

Recommended citation: Maneriker, Pranav, Nikhita Vedula, Hussein S. Al-Olimat, Jiayong Liang, Omar El-Khoury, Ethan Kubatko, Desheng Liu et al. A Pipeline for Disaster Response and Relief Coordination. In Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 1337-1340. ACM, 2019. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3331405

Natural disasters such as floods, forest fires, and hurricanes can cause catastrophic damage to human life and infrastructure. We focus on response to hurricanes caused by both river water flooding and storm surge. Using models for storm surge simulation and flood extent prediction, we generate forecasts about areas likely to be highly affected by the disaster. Further, we overlay the simulation results with information about traffic incidents to correlate traffic incidents with other data modality. We present these results in a modularized, interactive map-based visualization, which can help emergency responders to better plan and coordinate disaster response.

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