2004 UC Proceedings Abstract
 Integration of Different Data Bodies for Humanitarian Decision Support Track: Modeling Author(s): Aldo Benini, Charles Conley GIS is increasingly used as a platform for integrating data from different sources and substantive areas, including in humanitarian action. The challenges of integration are particularly well illustrated by humanitarian mine action. This sector has developed an advanced data model. Its main information management application, tightly integrated with its GIS, is recognized as a de-facto international standard. Also, it has enlarged its strategic and operational decision-making from a purely technical approach to the inclusion of socio-economic criteria. In practice landmine impact surveys have rarely overcome institutional obstacles to external data acquisition. A positive exception occurred in Lebanon, where the landmine impact survey had access to agricultural census data. The integration of this data was not straightforward. The auxiliary assumptions made, and the technical steps taken, in order to bring it into a common analytic framework, are detailed as a case study in GIS-aided integration. Aldo Benini Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) iMMAP 1725 Eye Street, NW. Fourth Floor Washington , DC 20006 US Phone: 202 362-6201 E-mail: abenini@starpower.net Charles Conley Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) iMMAP 1725 Eye Street, NW. Fourth Floor Washington , DC 20006 US E-mail: cconley@vi.org |
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