Modern Development of Geoinformatics

The article analyzes the current development of geoinformatics. It describes the relationship of Geoinformatics and informatics. This article describes the similarity and difference of Geoinformatics and informatics. The article reveals the characteristics and applications of geographic information technologies. It describes the features of geodata, which are the basis of processing and storage in geoinformatics. The article reveals the content of the digital simulation as a special type of modeling. Discloses the use of geoinformatics in management. This article describes the interaction of Geoinformatics and artificial intelligence methods

Geoinformation Technologies to Support Collaborative Emergency Management

In today’s emergency management environments geoinformation technologies play a vital role, but their potential has not been fully exploited. Key decision makers usually do not have direct access to Geographic Information Systems and if they receive access, complex user interfaces often hinder performance for high pressure tasks. In order to provide decision makers with direct and easy access to geoinformation in emergency situations and support group collaboration, we developed three collaborative geoinformation platforms: the Multimodal Interface Platform for Geographic Information Systems (GeoMIP), the GeoCollaborative Crisis Management platform for mobile collaboration and a web-portal for humanitarian relief logistics. The technologies developed are intelligent, multimodal (speech and gesture-based) user interfaces that allow synchronous and asynchronous collaboration between decision makers; support GIS use by mobile emergency management teams; and provide open standards-based web portal technologies