Multimedia Big Data Analysis Framework For Semantic Information Management And Retrieval

Classification as a Level I disaster indicates that local emergency response personnel and organizations can contain and effectively manage the disaster and its aftermath.

and Dentistry and Director of the Program in Disaster Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry and the UR Center for Disaster Medicine and Emergency Preparedness. For over a decade, he has responded to numerous national disasters as a volunteer with the American Red Cross. He has also developed comprehensive disaster mental health training programs for the New York State Office of Mental Health and the New York State Department of Health currently being disseminated throughout every county, state psychiatric center and acute healthcare facility throughout New York State.

Thus our proposed optimal feature subset selection based on multi-level feature subset selection produced better results based on number of subset feature produced and classifier performance. The future scope of the work is to use these features to annotate the image regions, so that the image retrieval system can retrieve relevant images based on image semantics.

The constant threat of focusing events, places a high level of pressure on emergency managers to respond appropriately to various levels of complex disasters. Past focusing events, highlight the importance of communication and coordination before and after disasters. Consequently, citizens expect emergency responders and government agencies to be accountable for rapidly responding to disasters in an organized manner. Prior to a focusing event, it is beneficial for emergency mangers to determine disaster risk prioritization. I present methods that emergency mangers can use to determine these priorities. Lastly, I discuss the integration of geographic information systems (GIS) to identify hazard zone areas.

Natural and man-made disasters have increased in the past decade, and due to these changes, Emergency Managers had to make drastic changes in order to improve the way first responders operate in a disaster area.

Our world is complex there has always been and always will be disasters that can happen anywhere anytime. There can be natural disasters, for example floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, wild fires and drought. There are also man-made and technology types of disasters from hazardous material spills, biological weapons, cyber-attacks to even civil unrest. According to PEMA, the history of emergency management can date all the way back the first civil defense program which was started during World War I and later during World War II the office of civil defense (OCD) was created by Pres. Roosevelt. In the past emergency management, has always been event driven. With each new crisis that our nation has gone through, the reason for and the avenue in which to accomplish emergency management has changed. No more so than when the terrorist attacked on 9/11. The 9/11 commission report states that the Incident Command System is a “proven framework for emergency response” (911 CR). The incident command system is a proven framework for emergency response by providing clear leadership and organizational structure, improving the effectiveness of resource efforts, and maintaining safety for responders.

As the Disaster Coordinator for the city I am responsible for ensuring the public safety and welfare of the citizens within the city's jurisdiction. This requires me to have a full understanding on my role and responsibilities for managing disaster response and employing resources in order to save lives, protect property, the environment. Additionally I’m tasked to preserve the less tangible but equally important social, economic and political structures. My first reaction was to alert the regional Joint Terrorism Task Force to prepare them for possible activation. Next it is vital to gain situational awareness and develop a Common Operating Picture (COP). This COP is the who, what, where, when and how as it relates to the incident. Situational awareness starts at the incident site and includes continuous monitoring of reporting channels to gain

The focus of this research is to analyze past disaster reports on Hurricane Katrina and identify gaps in the emergency evacuation procedures due to failure of communications system, what categories of people were more vulnerable to disasters and why . The purpose of this project will be to research and identify how to improvise the existing Risk Communications System during a disaster. It includes preparing an organized model for disaster response, as well as how things work during a disaster.

The research proposal can be developed from the topic of big data to match up the demands of enormous data flow in the dynamic world. Data visualization tools at significant cost can help up in analytics of big data and can form an innovative research proposal for analysis and extensive research. The real time data and the use of techniques of big data in this domain can form an excellent topic of research calling for formulating methodologies and strategies to tap the untapped potential of this field and to experiment more in the field of research.

The importance of our nation’s communication systems has become very clear over the years. These communication systems include radios, television, Internet, wired telephone lines, mobile phones, and satellites. A crisis will augment public media consumption, information seeking and increase fear and uncertainty. The media and public may receive incorrect information and dysfunctional responses during these extreme situations. Effective communication during the emergency response phase can provide many benefits to regulators, governmental officials, emergency managers, media, and the public. This is because people are able to exchange information in real-time and it can dispel any inaccuracies and rumors. Emergency managers can communicate important

Situational awareness is a crucial cog in the wheel of an efficient disaster response. Information on casualties, extent of damage, infrastructure and the present response efforts give emergency planners the way forward in the allocation of resources available. It helps in promoting preparedness, which requires the emergency response team to have detailed information about the risk that they are getting into (Haddow & Haddow, 2013).

The teacher will place the names of natural disasters in a jar and call students to come select a disaster. The disaster they draw will be their assignment. Students will be given a disaster description sheet from the Ready.gov – Disaster Master program. This is a content specific sixth to eighth grade leveled disaster awareness program created by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Authority) to teach students about 15 different disasters. Each description sheet explains what a person should do before, during, and after each event as well as education the students on content specific vocabulary relating to disasters and focuses on characteristic facts. The students will read their information sheets. While they are reading the material,

This emergence of social media has also changed emergency management and disaster response. Emergency management as a whole is fairly new, only creating widely recognized, integrated emergency management systems beginning in the 1970s. Furthermore, at this same time people realized that the effects disasters have on the communities they strike can be mitigated by the creation of disaster plans ahead of time, proper disaster response training, and the efforts of human actions in these situations. Because social media has enabled mass amounts of instant information sharing, it allows not only locals and disaster response teams to help with the management of crises, but also many remote citizens.

Big data is an extensive collection of structured and unstructured data. It is a modern day technology which is applied to store, manage and analyze data that are not possible to manage, store and analyze by using the commonly used software or tools. Since all of our daily tasks are overtaken by the modern technologies and all the businesses and organizations are using internet system to operate, the production of data has increased significantly in past

C. Image Based QA: An image-based QA approach was introduced in [11], which mainly focuses on finding information about physical objects. An image-based QA system allows direct use of an image that refers to the object. This type of systems was designed to find multimedia answers from web-scale media resources such as Flicker, Google images. D. Multimedia QA Search: Due to the increasing amount of digital information stored over the web, searching for desired information has become an essential task. The research in this area started from the early 1980s.