Friday, August 5, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Redes Sociais: "Espelho Espelho meu, existe alguém mais bonita do que eu ?"
A produção desse "Eu Virtual", ou ainda "Eus Virtuais" se deu de forma múltipla, não só pela ação do meio, mas mais especificamente pela aceitação de cada um de nós na construção dessa forma virtual do nossos padrões de interações.
A tela de nossos computadores são como espelhos pelas quais refletimos o nosso sub-consciente na relação do real com o virtual... A rede é conjunto descentralizado de múltiplos espelhos que se conectam com o interesse do indivíduo. O princípio é refletir o indivíduo. A idéia de Windows ou Apps, talvez do ponto de vista filosófico ou psicológico, seja mais interessante de ser explorada sob o viés de Espelhos. Espelhos são processos dinâmicos que se manifestam na interação. A rede por si só não têm vida. Assim como os espelhos apenas ganham sentido quando refletem as luzes do ambiente aos olhos do indivíduo, a rede apenas existe na interação com os indivíduos.
É nesse sentido que reside a possibilidade de emancipação e criação, onde nós humanos nos tornamos livres e senhores daquilo que produzimos. A Rede cada vez mais funcionará no sentido de tentar direcionar a ação das pessoas, seja pela sugestão de opções de consumo, ou pela construção de novos mecanismos de produção de conteúdo e compartilhamento.
Para expandir o conceito de "Espelhos" é preciso compreender que o mesmo necessita incorporar também uma dimensão de sentido e produtividade, sem o qual não pode expandir-se e multiplicar-se. Um espelho, nesse sentido, têm que necessariamente responder as demandas dos indivíduos. Agora me veio uma constatação muito interessante com um potencial simbólico muito grande. A famosa frase: "Espelho Espelho meu, existe alguém mais bonita do que eu ?" vem da história da Branca de Neve, mas nos ajuda a ilustrar algo de grande complexidade... Veja que o Espelho Mágico, é dotado de uma entidade inteligente, que corresponde quase uma Ferramenta de Busca como conhecemos contemporaneamente. A madrasta perversa pergunta : "Espelho Espelho meu, existe alguém mais bonita do que eu ?".
O que me interessa de toda essa história não são os 7 anões, mas sim o papel do Espelho Mágico, que diga-se de passagem deve ter sido a primeira visualização do Ipad na história, pense por um minuto, o mesmo não era diretamente conectado a nada, mas Wireless, engraçado. No final, o resultado da busca pelo Espelho Mágico acabou não agradando a Rainha Maléfica. Dou rizada de pensar de qual foi Ferramenta de Busca utilizada pelo Espelho Mágico: Google or Bing ?
Continua em um outra hora...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Out-Educating the Competition
President Obama speaks about winning the future through enouraging education in science, technology, engineering and math during a visit to Intel in Hillsboro, OR. February 18, 2011.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
IBM Researchers Discuss the Technology Behind Watson
An IBM research discusses the technology behind Watson, the language-parsing machine that recently beat two of the world's best players in Jeopardy.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
City of Milpitas - Geographic Information Systems Division
Source: http://www.ci.milpitas.ca.gov/services/gis/default.asp
(VISIT the Link above to see the full list of MAPS available for the City of Milpitas). Below, you will find the content of the main page.)
City of Milpitas 455 East Calaveras Boulevard, Milpitas, California 95035 (408) 586-3000
Copyright ©2009 - 2011 City of Milpitas, California All Rights Reserved
(VISIT the Link above to see the full list of MAPS available for the City of Milpitas). Below, you will find the content of the main page.)
City of Milpitas 455 East Calaveras Boulevard, Milpitas, California 95035 (408) 586-3000
Copyright ©2009 - 2011 City of Milpitas, California All Rights Reserved
Welcome to the GIS Home Page
What is GIS? A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a collection of "smart" map layers residing in a computer that represent real world objects. The "smartness" allows users to ask the GIS questions about objects or their spatial relationship to one another. |  |
How Does the City Use GIS?
Various City departments use GIS to make smarter and faster decisions regarding mapped data. Some of the efforts supported by GIS are public safety, planning, building permitting, engineering, and asset management.
Citywide PDF Maps
A series of PDF maps showing various themes that might be of interest to the residents of Milpitas or general public. Some of the maps include: Seismic Hazards, Flood Hazards, General Plan, Bicycle, and several others.
Data from the City's GIS are available for download in shapefile formats. The user must have the necessary software to view and manipulate the files. The City of Milpitas does not supply this software.
Here is where you can find searchable maps and aerial photographs of the City.
The City of Milpitas would like to thank all of it's GIS volunteers in helping build the contents of this Section of the web site.
| GIS Division, Information Services Department | Hours: |
| 1265 North Milpitas Boulevard | Monday-Friday: 8:00 am-5:00 pm |
| Main Phone: (408) 586-2700 |
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Geographic Knowledge: Our New Infrastructure
Source: http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/winter1011articles/geographic-knowledge.html
By Jack Dangermond
Thanks in large part to the Internet, we've recently seen a fundamental change in the way GIS is delivered and used. The next 10 years will see an explosion of faster, more powerful mobile devices, and the line dividing cell phones and personal computers will fade. Mobile devices will continue to grow to support more geospatial functionality, and they will easily connect to systems around the world to use and create geographic knowledge. Democratization of data—both its widespread use and its universal creation—will result in a new kind of infrastructure: a geospatial infrastructure that powers our digital earth.
As we move from an industrial economy to an information economy, our reliance on physical infrastructure is being supplemented by reliance on a new type of infrastructure: geographic knowledge.
As we move from an industrial economy to a knowledge-based economy, our reliance on physical infrastructure is being supplemented by reliance on knowledge infrastructure, of which geographic knowledge will form a key component.
At the 2010 Esri International User Conference, keynote speaker Richard Saul Wurman stated that "Understanding precedes action." Geographic knowledge represents our best opportunity to understand the world around us, and this geographic knowledge drives human action. Leveraging this knowledge can make a huge difference in our daily lives; it not only guides business and government but also helps us create a more sustainable world.
What Is Geographic Knowledge?
Geographic knowledge—collected information describing the natural and human environment on earth—includes:
Building the Infrastructure
GIS is the technology we rely on to build, operate, and maintain components of the emerging geographic knowledge infrastructure—spatial databases, maps, models, etc. Emerging Web environments provide new ways to make geographic knowledge accessible by non-GIS audiences. As location becomes a core component of more applications we use every day, our dependence on this knowledge infrastructure will increase exponentially, and that puts an increased level of responsibility on the geospatial professionals who build, operate, and maintain this infrastructure.
The first 40 years in GIS have been all about measuring, analyzing, modeling, and managing geographic information. The next major step will be to use all this geographic knowledge as a foundation for designing our future.
Using the Infrastructure
Infrastructure is very basic and universal to the way we live, but it is often overlooked or almost invisible because it is taken for granted. A lot of us are committed to build, operate, and maintain this infrastructure, but these activities pale in comparison to the actual use of the infrastructure. When you flip a light switch, the light comes on—you don't need to know the complexities of how the electricity was created and transmitted to your house. And that's where we are heading with this geographic knowledge infrastructure. Leveraging this all—encompassing infrastructure will expand our understanding of the physical and cultural dynamics that shape our world and help us devise action plans for a more sustainable future.
Creating New Knowledge
Mobile and location-based technologies are fundamentally changing the way we create geographic knowledge; we're seeing the widespread embracing of crowdsourcing—geographic knowledge contributed by everyday citizens. Long the keepers of purely authoritative data, geospatial practitioners are beginning to take crowdsourced data very seriously. This gives ordinary citizens the opportunity to provide feedback directly to the government. It can significantly augment authoritative datasets at a fraction of the traditional cost. It provides extraordinary opportunities for citizen science. And it can put a large group of resources on a large project in short order.
GIS tools supporting crowdsourcing will change the way organizations collect and manage spatial data. Some of these tools are already available and give users the ability to modify geographic content within any Web mapping application and provide a venue for online communities to become active contributors to geospatial databases. Web editing makes it easy to capture ideas and observations for distributed problem solving and extend GIS editing capabilities to more people within an organization. These capabilities allow everyone—from authoritative data editors to citizens on the street—to contribute content to geospatial databases. This will enrich GIS, giving GIS practitioners new types of data to use, manage, interpret, and incorporate into their work.
Challenges Ahead
As the geographic knowledge infrastructure becomes pervasive, some of the issues we have to overcome as an industry and as a society include privacy concerns, data ownership, standards for collecting and structuring the data, and making sure we use the data in appropriate ways. These are very complex issues that we need to tackle at the same time we are trying to make everything easier and available to a much broader audience.
Building spatial data infrastructure and performing spatial analysis are difficult, complicated tasks, and they will remain so. In a way, one of our primary responsibilities as geospatial professionals is to hide the complexity. Obviously, what you expose to a GIS professional or a city planner is going to be very different from what you expose to a citizen with a cell phone. We need to determine what geographic knowledge is relevant for a given situation or a particular audience and build our applications around that knowledge.
Our Shared Responsibility
Over time, society will become increasingly dependent on geospatial infrastructure, much as it has become dependent on other, more traditional forms of infrastructure, such as electrical grids, rail systems, and highway networks. With this dependence will come added responsibilities for the geospatial professionals who build, operate, and maintain the infrastructure.
When technology is so universally accepted that it can be considered infrastructure, people become highly dependent on it. If your electricity was turned off for a week, how would that impact your life? If all public roads and highways were closed for a month, how would you get by? In the near future, we might add the question, How would it impact your life if you no longer had access to the world's geographic knowledge?
By Jack Dangermond
Thanks in large part to the Internet, we've recently seen a fundamental change in the way GIS is delivered and used. The next 10 years will see an explosion of faster, more powerful mobile devices, and the line dividing cell phones and personal computers will fade. Mobile devices will continue to grow to support more geospatial functionality, and they will easily connect to systems around the world to use and create geographic knowledge. Democratization of data—both its widespread use and its universal creation—will result in a new kind of infrastructure: a geospatial infrastructure that powers our digital earth.
As we move from an industrial economy to an information economy, our reliance on physical infrastructure is being supplemented by reliance on a new type of infrastructure: geographic knowledge.
As we move from an industrial economy to a knowledge-based economy, our reliance on physical infrastructure is being supplemented by reliance on knowledge infrastructure, of which geographic knowledge will form a key component.
At the 2010 Esri International User Conference, keynote speaker Richard Saul Wurman stated that "Understanding precedes action." Geographic knowledge represents our best opportunity to understand the world around us, and this geographic knowledge drives human action. Leveraging this knowledge can make a huge difference in our daily lives; it not only guides business and government but also helps us create a more sustainable world.
Geographic knowledge—collected information describing the natural and human environment on earth—includes:
- Data
- Data models that provide structure to the data
- Models and analytic environments that show predictions or suitability
- Encapsulation of cartographic expression of the data
- Geospatial workflows
- Metadata, which describes the five components above and is key to sharing, discovery, and access
Geographic knowledge is already changing how we abstract our world. It is also changing how we reason, both in the professional world and in broader society, by introducing spatially integrated thinking. It lets people more easily visualize and think about cause-and-effect relationships.
Shared geographic databases, in concert with geospatial data viewers, such as Google Maps and Bing Maps, are also changing how we organize and communicate within and between agencies and organizations. Looking beyond the maps, people are doing more spatially integrated thinking, introducing a whole new approach for problem solving. And this is just the beginning. We're in the midst of a geospatial revolution, and this framework will come to embrace all types of knowledge and ultimately achieve a societal infrastructure for human behavior and social action.
Building the Infrastructure
GIS is the technology we rely on to build, operate, and maintain components of the emerging geographic knowledge infrastructure—spatial databases, maps, models, etc. Emerging Web environments provide new ways to make geographic knowledge accessible by non-GIS audiences. As location becomes a core component of more applications we use every day, our dependence on this knowledge infrastructure will increase exponentially, and that puts an increased level of responsibility on the geospatial professionals who build, operate, and maintain this infrastructure.
The first 40 years in GIS have been all about measuring, analyzing, modeling, and managing geographic information. The next major step will be to use all this geographic knowledge as a foundation for designing our future.
Using the Infrastructure
Infrastructure is very basic and universal to the way we live, but it is often overlooked or almost invisible because it is taken for granted. A lot of us are committed to build, operate, and maintain this infrastructure, but these activities pale in comparison to the actual use of the infrastructure. When you flip a light switch, the light comes on—you don't need to know the complexities of how the electricity was created and transmitted to your house. And that's where we are heading with this geographic knowledge infrastructure. Leveraging this all—encompassing infrastructure will expand our understanding of the physical and cultural dynamics that shape our world and help us devise action plans for a more sustainable future.
Once this infrastructure is in place, it will support a myriad of applications and activities. One of the most intriguing and exciting applications is GeoDesign—a set of GIS-based methods and tools that allow users to easily sketch out alternative designs and quickly consider the consequences of these alternatives. GeoDesign is about creating a sustainable future, guided by geographic knowledge. By making geography and the concepts of GeoDesign more widely available, people will be more likely to make decisions guided by geographic knowledge.
GIS has traditionally been very focused on analysis and modeling, often in an attempt to predict the future—a difficult task. With GeoDesign, we move beyond trying to predict the future and toward a mindset where the future can be invented or created in a logical, scientific, and purposeful manner. Carl Steinitz at Harvard University says that "GeoDesign is geography by design." We are moving beyond a world composed primarily of what might be considered "accidental" geography toward a more intelligent approach based on a deep understanding of the long-term consequences of our design on society and the environment.
Creating New Knowledge
Mobile and location-based technologies are fundamentally changing the way we create geographic knowledge; we're seeing the widespread embracing of crowdsourcing—geographic knowledge contributed by everyday citizens. Long the keepers of purely authoritative data, geospatial practitioners are beginning to take crowdsourced data very seriously. This gives ordinary citizens the opportunity to provide feedback directly to the government. It can significantly augment authoritative datasets at a fraction of the traditional cost. It provides extraordinary opportunities for citizen science. And it can put a large group of resources on a large project in short order.
GIS tools supporting crowdsourcing will change the way organizations collect and manage spatial data. Some of these tools are already available and give users the ability to modify geographic content within any Web mapping application and provide a venue for online communities to become active contributors to geospatial databases. Web editing makes it easy to capture ideas and observations for distributed problem solving and extend GIS editing capabilities to more people within an organization. These capabilities allow everyone—from authoritative data editors to citizens on the street—to contribute content to geospatial databases. This will enrich GIS, giving GIS practitioners new types of data to use, manage, interpret, and incorporate into their work.
Challenges Ahead
As the geographic knowledge infrastructure becomes pervasive, some of the issues we have to overcome as an industry and as a society include privacy concerns, data ownership, standards for collecting and structuring the data, and making sure we use the data in appropriate ways. These are very complex issues that we need to tackle at the same time we are trying to make everything easier and available to a much broader audience.
Building spatial data infrastructure and performing spatial analysis are difficult, complicated tasks, and they will remain so. In a way, one of our primary responsibilities as geospatial professionals is to hide the complexity. Obviously, what you expose to a GIS professional or a city planner is going to be very different from what you expose to a citizen with a cell phone. We need to determine what geographic knowledge is relevant for a given situation or a particular audience and build our applications around that knowledge.
More people using geographic knowledge will result in more highly evolved interfaces. But we must be extremely careful here. Information can so easily be taken out of context or misused. As the volume of information increases and we make it easy to access and available to more people, the opportunities for misuse increase exponentially. Even highly trained scientists can make mistakes with data. Our approach needs to be deliberate; we need to deliver the appropriate knowledge to the right people at the right time, but we also need to package it in a way that gives the best opportunity for correct use and interpretation.
Our Shared Responsibility
Over time, society will become increasingly dependent on geospatial infrastructure, much as it has become dependent on other, more traditional forms of infrastructure, such as electrical grids, rail systems, and highway networks. With this dependence will come added responsibilities for the geospatial professionals who build, operate, and maintain the infrastructure.
When technology is so universally accepted that it can be considered infrastructure, people become highly dependent on it. If your electricity was turned off for a week, how would that impact your life? If all public roads and highways were closed for a month, how would you get by? In the near future, we might add the question, How would it impact your life if you no longer had access to the world's geographic knowledge?
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Location-Tracking Technology and Privacy (Cato)
POLICY FORUM
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Featuring Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR); Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; and Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
As location-sensitive cell phones, GPS devices, and digital assistants become more integral to daily living, law enforcement and intelligence agencies are rushing to exploit their potential. Records of the geolocation data these devices generate can provide the kind of detailed portrait of a person's movements and activities that once required costly, 24/7 surveillance. Applications range from tracking fugitives to reconstructing a suspect's travels to analyzing the movements of whole populations in search of "suspicious" behavior patterns.
As courts wrestle with the Fourth-Amendment status of this new form of monitoring, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is drafting legislation to set standards for government access to geolocation data under both criminal law and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Senator Wyden will discuss his forthcoming proposal and Cato scholars Julian Sanchez and Jim Harper will comment, placing it in the context of the larger shifting legal and technological landscape. Join us for a discussion of geolocation data and the prospects for privacy protection in this emerging technological area.
Cato events, unless otherwise noted, are free of charge. To register for this event, please fill out the form below and click submit or emailevents@cato.org, fax (202) 371-0841, or call (202) 789-5229 by noon, Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Please arrive early. Seating is limited and not guaranteed. News media inquiries only (no registrations), please call (202) 789-5200.
If you can't make it to the Cato Institute, watch this forum live online.
To watch live refer to the following site on January, 26
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Hazus: FEMA’s Methodology for Estimating Potential Losses from Disasters
Source: http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/hazus/
FEMA’s Methodology for Estimating Potential Losses from Disasters
Hazus is a nationally applicable standardized methodology that contains models for estimating potential losses from earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes. Hazus uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to estimate physical, economic, and social impacts of disasters. It graphically illustrates the limits of identified high-risk locations due to earthquake, hurricane, and floods. Users can then visualize the spatial relationships between populations and other more permanently fixed geographic assets or resources for the specific hazard being modeled, a crucial function in the pre-disaster planning process.
Hazus is used for mitigation and recovery as well as preparedness and response. Government planners, GIS specialists, and emergency managers use Hazus to determine losses and the most beneficial mitigation approaches to take to minimize them. Hazus can be used in the assessment step in the mitigation planning process, which is the foundation for a community's long term strategy to reduce disaster losses and break the cycle of disaster damage, reconstruction, and repeated damage. Being ready will aid in recovery after a natural disaster.
As the number of Hazus users continues to increase, so do the types of uses. Increasingly, Hazus is being used by states and communities in support of risk assessments, perform economic loss scenarios for certain natural hazards, and rapid needs assessments during hurricane response. Other communities are using Hazus to increase hazard awareness. Successful uses of Hazus are profiled under Mitigation and Recovery and Preparedness and Response. Emergency managers have also found these map templates helpful to support rapid impact assessment and disaster response.
Hazus Software
Hazus software is a powerful risk assessment methodology for analyzing potential losses from floods, hurricane winds, and earthquakes. In Hazus, current scientific and engineering knowledge is coupled with the latest geographic information systems (GIS) technology to produce estimates of hazard-related damage before, or after, a disaster occurs.
Potential loss estimates analyzed in Hazus include:
•Physical damage to residential and commercial buildings, schools, critical facilities, and infrastructure;
•Economic loss, including lost jobs, business interruptions, repair and reconstruction costs; and
•Social impacts, including estimates of shelter requirements, displaced households, and population exposed to scenario floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes.
FEMA’s Methodology for Estimating Potential Losses from Disasters
Hazus is a nationally applicable standardized methodology that contains models for estimating potential losses from earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes. Hazus uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to estimate physical, economic, and social impacts of disasters. It graphically illustrates the limits of identified high-risk locations due to earthquake, hurricane, and floods. Users can then visualize the spatial relationships between populations and other more permanently fixed geographic assets or resources for the specific hazard being modeled, a crucial function in the pre-disaster planning process.
Hazus is used for mitigation and recovery as well as preparedness and response. Government planners, GIS specialists, and emergency managers use Hazus to determine losses and the most beneficial mitigation approaches to take to minimize them. Hazus can be used in the assessment step in the mitigation planning process, which is the foundation for a community's long term strategy to reduce disaster losses and break the cycle of disaster damage, reconstruction, and repeated damage. Being ready will aid in recovery after a natural disaster.
As the number of Hazus users continues to increase, so do the types of uses. Increasingly, Hazus is being used by states and communities in support of risk assessments, perform economic loss scenarios for certain natural hazards, and rapid needs assessments during hurricane response. Other communities are using Hazus to increase hazard awareness. Successful uses of Hazus are profiled under Mitigation and Recovery and Preparedness and Response. Emergency managers have also found these map templates helpful to support rapid impact assessment and disaster response.
Hazus Software
Hazus software is a powerful risk assessment methodology for analyzing potential losses from floods, hurricane winds, and earthquakes. In Hazus, current scientific and engineering knowledge is coupled with the latest geographic information systems (GIS) technology to produce estimates of hazard-related damage before, or after, a disaster occurs.
Potential loss estimates analyzed in Hazus include:
•Physical damage to residential and commercial buildings, schools, critical facilities, and infrastructure;
•Economic loss, including lost jobs, business interruptions, repair and reconstruction costs; and
•Social impacts, including estimates of shelter requirements, displaced households, and population exposed to scenario floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
ESRI (UK)'s CrimeAnalyst 1.6 Built around ArcGIS 9.3
ESRI's United Kingdom (UK) subsidiary has launched CrimeAnalyst version 1.6, GIS software for creating, analyzing, and publishing crime statistics in line with the UK government's recent crime mapping green paper requirements.
CrimeAnalyst 1.6 reportedly helps police and other law enforcement organizations collect, combine, visualize, analyze, and share crime information in real-time, delivering in-depth, live location-based intelligence in line with the UK's National Intelligence Model (NIM) framework.
CrimeAnalyst 1.6 uses the latest version of ESRI's GIS software, ArcGIS 9.3, enabling the software to interact with Web applications such as Microsoft Live or Google Maps and online viewers including Geowise's Instant Atlas, according to ESRI (UK).
Additional updates to software include:
- streamlined install and licensing
- quicker hotspot crime mapping results, reportedly allowing analysts to interrogate specific data for longer periods or for wider geographical areas in the same time
- improved support for working on international projections
ESRI (UK)'s CrimeAnalyst is already in use by the law enforcement community in Canada and Switzerland, with strong interest across Europe and South America, according to the company.
Source: http://www.gpsworld.com/gis/gis-and-mapping/news/esri-uk039s-crimeanalyst-16-built-around-arcgis-93-8011
Friday, January 7, 2011
4.1 Magnitude Earthquake hit San Jose Area
The following link of USGS provides Real Time Mapping of incidences of Earthquakes in California and Nevada:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/special/California_Nevada.php
Earthquake Details This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/special/California_Nevada.php
Earthquake Details This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
| Magnitude | 4.1 |
|---|---|
| Date-Time |
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| Location | 37.288°N, 121.663°W |
| Depth | 7.1 km (4.4 miles) |
| Region | NORTHERN CALIFORNIA |
| Distances |
|
| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 0.1 km (0.1 miles); depth +/- 0.3 km (0.2 miles) |
| Parameters | Nph= 97, Dmin=3 km, Rmss=0.06 sec, Gp= 68°, M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=5 |
| Source | |
| Event ID | nc71506865 |
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Centro de Operações do Rio de Janeiro
" A Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro e a IBM anunciaram em 27 de dezembro de 2010 o início do funcionamento de um centro de gerenciamento de informações públicas da cidade do Rio de Janeiro.
O Centro de Operações Rio irá integrar e interconectar informações de diversos órgãos públicos do município para melhorar a capacidade de resposta da Prefeitura em relação a vários tipos de incidentes, como enchentes e deslizamentos. O acordo entre IBM e Prefeitura também prevê o desenvolvimento de um pioneiro sistema de Previsão de Meteorologia de Alta Resolução (PMAR), que pode prever chuvas fortes com até 48 horas de antecedência.
O Centro de Operações Rio será inaugurado no dia 31 de dezembro. Sua missão é consolidar informações de vários sistemas do município para visualização, monitoramento e análise em tempo real. O sistema desenvolvido pela IBM foi desenhado para prevenção de enchentes e emergências relacionadas, mas está capacitado para outras ocorrências, desde incidentes no reveillon na praia de Copacabana, a saída de torcedores de uma partida de futebol no Maracanã, como um acidente de trânsito.
O Centro ajudará os governantes da cidade a tomarem decisões em situações de emergência com informações em tempo real.
A iniciativa é parte da estratégia mundial da IBM que tem como objetivo desenvolver tecnologias que ajudem as cidades a funcionar de forma mais inteligente. Projetos similares já foram implementados em Nova York e Gauteng/Africa do Sul, porém este é o primeiro centro do mundo que irá integrar todas as etapas de um gerenciamento de crise: desde a previsão, mitigação e preparação, até a resposta imediata aos eventos e realimentação do sistema com novas informações que podem ser usadas em futuros incidentes.
Mais informações - http://migre.me/ibm/fU
Mais informações sobre "Cidades Mais Inteligentes" - http://migre.me/ibm/fS
Mais informações sobre "Planeta Mais Inteligente" -http://migre.me/ibm/fT "
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