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A generic triangle-based data structure of the complete set of higher order Voronoi diagrams for emergency management

✍ Scribed by Ickjai Lee; Kyungmi Lee


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
1019 KB
Volume
33
Category
Article
ISSN
0198-9715

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✦ Synopsis


We introduce a generic Delaunay triangle-based data structure for geoinformation processing in disaster and emergency management. The data structure supports the complete set of higher order Voronoi diagrams (order-k) Voronoi diagrams, ordered order-k Voronoi diagrams, and kth nearest Voronoi diagrams for all ðkÞ. It provides useful and insightful information for what-if nearest queries, what-if neighboring queries, what-if zoning queries, what-if facility locating queries and what-if routing queries to handle various scenarios in the four stages of emergency management (mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery). We also demonstrate how the complete set of higher order Voronoi diagrams can be used for each phase of emergency management in diverse geoinformatics environments.