1.2 How to use this book

Structure of the Data Management Book chapters

The data management book is primarily focusing on data aspects and has the following components:

Data requirements
Basic data collection
Hazard data collection
Collection and managemen of elements-at-risk data
Managing geospatial data
Sharing geospatial data

Interactive presentations

The Book contains a large number of interactive presentations, which have been generated using PowerPoint presentation and the interactive tool ISpring Free 7, that converts a PowerPoint file into an interactive web-page. The presentations are opened in a new window. You can navigate through them, using the menu’s indicated on the screen, or just by pressing space or with a mouse click. After completion, you close the window and return back to the main chapter.

Links

The online version of the book can be consulted individually for each relevant section. The Book contains many links to the relevant section of the Methodology Book and the Use Case Book, and in practice users are expected to go from link to link back and forth from one book to another, depending on their interest. The book also contains many links to external resources, and users are invited to use these whenever appropriate.

Printing

Of course it is also possible to make a print out of the sections of the book, in a pdf, which can be printed on paper, and read by those that don’t like to read from a computer screen. To print out a section click on the pdf button on the upper right of the section. Alternatively , you can use the print button and print out the section on paper, or as a pdf file.

Comments

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TABLE OF CONTENTS	MAIN INTENDED USERS
Data Management Book	Planners	Engineers	GIS experts
1 Introduction
1.1 Objectives of this book	V	V	V
1.2 How to use this book	V	V	V
2 Data requirements	V	V	V
2.1 Introduction			V
2.2 Flood data		V	V
2.3 Landslide data	V	V	V
3 Base data collection	V	V	V
3.1 Introduction			V
3.2 Digital Elevation Models			V
3.3 Satellite data			V
3.4 Land cover maps	V	V	V
3.5 Geological maps	V	V	V
3.6 Soil maps	V	V	V
4 Hazard related data
4.1 Hydro Met data		V	V
4.2 Disaster databases			V
4.3 Landslide inventories	V	V	V
4.4 Flood specific information		V	V
5 Elements-at-risk data
5.1 Introduction	V	V	V
5.2 Building footprint maps	V		V
5.3 Population data	V		V
5.4 Road maps		V	V
5.5 Other critical infrastructure data		V	V
6 Managing Geospatial data			V
6.1 Introduction			V
6.2 Data projections			V
6.3 Data homogenization			V
6.4 Accuracy and precision			V
6.5 Metadata requirements	V	V	V
6.6 Data formats			V
6.7 Data analysis tools			V
7 Sharing geospatial data			V
7.1 Introduction			V
7.2 Collaboration framework			V
7.3 Open data policies			V
7.4 Data standards			V
7.5 Technical tool: GeoNode	V	V	V
7.6 Other tools			V

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