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Emergency management system

  • US 20020143469A1
  • Filed: 03/30/2001
  • Published: 10/03/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A real time management system for collecting information from geographical distributed locations comprising:

  • means for collecting information at geographically distribtuted locations and for assigning unique space-time coordinates associated with said infomation, said information and said associated space-time coordinates collected for subsequent transmission;

    a communication network for transmitting said collected information and associated space-time coordinates;

    means for establishing a connection between said information collection means and said communication network and for initiating the transmission of said collected information and associated space-time coordinates at a selected time;

    said establishing means coupled to said means collecting means;

    a computer, coupled to said communications network, adapted to receive said collected information and associated space-time coordinates from said information collection means and for transforming said collected information and associated space-time coordinates into an event description and associated GIS data;

    said computer adapted to store said event description and associated GIS data in an event database and for accessing a reference geographic database to generate an event summary map that combines said event description with a previously generated base map; and

    means for distributing said event summary map.

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