BUILDING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE THROUGH GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION DASHBOARDS

S. Praharaj, E. Wentz

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Abstract

This article discusses a dashboard toolkit designed at the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience at the Arizona State University to integrate and analyze multi-agency data offering many ways of visualizing big data representable, contextualizable, and intelligible to a non-expert target audience. We outline a community-driven approach to identify pressing resiliency issues and deploy dashboard tools on targeted areas for significant community benefit. Our research builds on the offerings of data science to aid community-focused decision support systems to enable evidence-based and real-time decision-making. We hypothesize that building community resilience in response to emerging challenges requires a combination of timely data at the local scale and easy-to-use decision support tools. This research particularly focuses on augmenting the capacity of communities through dashboard technologies to comprehend rapidly evolving issues and address them in a timely and efficient manner. Our work contributes to a rapidly growing research domain around geospatial data visualization technologies that are increasingly playing a vital role in the shaping of government policies, including resiliency planning and disaster response. This study argues that dashboards that are action-oriented, easy-to-use, and locally embedded within the community have much more potential to be used as a decision-support system. The findings indicate that community-based knowledge networks catalyzed and influenced by modern technologies might provide a model to negotiate the gaps between ecosystem-based and social-science-focused conceptualization of community resilience.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)151-157
Number of pages7
JournalInternational Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives
Volume48
Issue number4/W5-2022
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 14 2022
Event7th International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities, SDSC 2022 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: Oct 19 2022Oct 21 2022

Keywords

  • Big data
  • Community resilience
  • Dashboards
  • Decision support systems
  • Resilience

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Geography, Planning and Development

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