Abstract

Decision Support System for Turkish Marine and Coastal Areas
Track: Disaster Management and Emergency Response
Author(s): Serife Bozkaya, Cihangir Aydöner

Every day different kinds of high tonnage vessels go through the Turkish Strait endangering the public life and environment seriously. There were 1363 maritime accidents reported just last decade. Therefore, the establishment of an appropriate decision support system is rather important for the conservation of public life, and marine and coastal environment. In this paper, a multi-tier GIS based disaster management decision support system, which runs on the internet and supported by the GIS desktop applications, will be presented. The system will be used by the Maritime Affairs of Turkey at the end of the project as a new decision support system for the emergency response of the marine accidents happened in the Turkish marine coastal areas. The system analyzes the various environmental, economical, demographical, and supplemental data, and uses critical mathematical models to produce the optimum crisis management information by displaying the results on the maps.

Serife Bozkaya
TUBITAK MRC
Information Tech.Institute
Gebze , Kocaeli 41470
Turkey
Phone: 90 262 677 2696
Fax: 90 262 646 3187
E-mail: serife.bozkaya@bte.mam.gov.tr

Cihangir Aydöner
TUBITAK Marmara Research Center
Chemistry and Environmental Science Institute
PO. 21
GEBZE , Kocaeli 41470
Turkey
Phone: 90 262 677 2970
E-mail: cihangir.aydonerq@mam.gov.tr