2015년 3월 10일 화요일

RIT professor creates better maps for navigating disasters in Syrian refugee camp

03/10/2015 12:42 PM EDT

a convenience store on the refugee camp's street
Brian Tomaszewski, an assistant professor of information sciences and technologies at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), spent a week of his winter break in Jordan, looking at how geographic information systems and mapping can be used to mitigate potential emergency and disaster situations that threaten life at the refugee camp. The trip was part of a collaborative National Science Foundation-funded project to examine the camp’s current infrastructure.

Full story at http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=51330

Source
Rochester Institute of Technology

This is an NSF News From the Field item.

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