Abstract

Automated GLIDE Number Resource Extraction for Rapid Location Identification
Track: Disaster and Emergency Management
Authors: Erin Pence

ArcGIS facilitates and accelerates the process of data centralization and map creation, but data gathering remains a difficult and time-consuming process - especially for time-sensitive situations such as generating initial situation assessment maps for disaster response. In this paper, we present the Automated Space Aid Program (ASAP). ASAP is designed to simplify the process of parsing text-based disaster descriptions contained in the GLobal IDEntifier (GLIDE) number website in order to generate initial situation assessment maps. Specifically, ASAP gathers disaster information and sends the information to an ArcGIS server geoprocessing service. The program then automatically generates disaster-zone area of interest (AOI) polygon shapefiles from the text-based disaster descriptions that can potentially be used for satellite tasking and by GIS professionals and responders in the field. The AOI shapefiles generated by ASAP can be downloaded from a web application that utilizes the ArcGIS server JavaScript API.