Title

Communicating Public Risks From Operations Of Future Spaceports With Gis

Keywords

Expectation of casualty; Geographical information systems; Interval based arithmetic; Sheltering

Abstract

As the number of U.S states who investigate the potential economic benefits of owning a spaceport for commercial operations increases, so does the need to effectively communicate the risks likely to be incurred by the communities surrounding the land sites being considered. Using interval based arithmetic we propose a methodology by which the outcomes of the different hazards produced by the explosion of a launch vehicle at or near those spaceports can be fully integrated within a geographical information systems environment to generate risk information that can be easily conveyed to the decision makers and the general public. While we briefly describe our entire approach, the aim of this paper is to discuss the development of a sheltering model which constitutes the first phase of the implementation of our methodology.

Publication Date

12-1-2006

Publication Title

2006 IIE Annual Conference and Exhibition

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

36448941242 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/36448941242

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