GIS IN THE SAFETY CHAIN
State-of-the-art information system helps emergency services and crisis centres with risk management in case of chemical disasters
The most important benefit of GIS systems is that they allow better decisions to be taken more quickly. Which immediately explains the rise of GIS-based information systems as a decision support instrument in managing the risk of disasters. At the request of the European Space Agency (ESA), VITO developed as prime of an international consortium a high quality information system that assists emergency services and crisis centres in assessing the risks of chemical disasters. The system, with the suitable name Seveseo IS (Seveseo Information System), is based on a sophisticated linking of high resolution earth observation images with dispersion models.
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